Father de Lamberville, the elder, missionary among the Iroquois of the village of the Onontagues the letter which you took the trouble to write to me on the 27 th July. repeat, Sir, what I already had the honour to state to you that it will not be my fault that we shall not live in very good intelligence. I am willing to believe, Sir, that you will contribute thereunto on your side, and that you will put an end to all those causes that may exist for dissatisfaction at what is doing under your government by your traders and others whom you protect. I do not believe, Sir, that the King your master approves of all the trouble you have taken in arming and soliciting by presents all the Iroquois Nation to wage war on us this year, neither the exhortations you have made them to plunder our Frenchmen who trade to places which up to the present time we have acquired long before New York was what it is. I received

You have proposed, Sir, to submit every thing to the decision of our Masters, yet your emissary to the Onnontagues, told all the nations in your name to pillage and to make war on us.

This is so

notorious a matter that it cannot be doubted, and it will be maintained before your emissary ; whether

he acted by your order, or at the suggestion of your merchants at Orange, it has been said and done.

You are not ignorant of the expedition of your merchants against Michilimaquina.