number of savages on whom I may depend he is accredited among them and rendered great services to M de Labarre by a considerable number of savages whom he brought to him to Niagara, who alone would have attacked the Senecas were it not for an express order from M de Labarre to the contrary. :

On arriving here I found neither batteaux nor canoes for our troops, and as they are absolutely useless if not adapted to pass from one point to another ;

knowing by experience that the expense of

canoes is too great and that they require too much attention and repair, I thought I could not do better than to order plank to be prepared for one hundred flat batteaux, which will carry twice more

than canoes and will be much cheaper both in cost and repair, because a batteau that will carry two

thousand pounds will not cost more than a canoe which will carry only one.

The means for preparing to wage war against the Iroquois, if the King approve of it, so that that Nation may not have any suspicion, remain to be considered.

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

It is very much to be desired that first of all, sufficient flour

into Catarokvy next year, so as to have nothing to

enemy

;

and other provisions might be put do the following year but to march against the

but as I do not think it possible to convey the whole quantity of provisions necessary thither