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

without the savages naturally suspicious taking umbrage, measures must be adopted to accomplish in the same year with great diligence, which cannot be effected without trouble and expense, for

all

in truth, the difficulties in surmounting rapids and cascades, twenty-five to thirty leagues in extent,

are immense.

This, however, is not all ; for

it is well

to consider that the arrangements are not easy to be made

so as to secure punctuality, since from the Illinois country there are four hundred leagues to be

and from the Outaouacs and Savages of lake

travelled to arrive at Niagara, the place of rendezvous ;

Superior, three hundred leagues, and from Quebec nearly two hundred to the said place of Niagara.

All this

must make me think of putting myself in a condition to be, myself, sufficiently strong to

fight them without any other aid than that of this country.

The conveyance of supplies and the expense are my sole difficulties.