be much have recourse to open acts of hostility by firing our settlements, than to do

what they are doing through the Iroquois for our destruction.

The Country between Lakes Erie and Huron was thus called.

Paris Doc. iii. 84.

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

I know, beyond a moment's doubt that Mr. Dongan has caused all the Five Iroquois Nations to be collected, this spring, at Orange to tell them publicly, so as to stimulate them against us, that I want

war against them ; that they must plunder our Frenchmen in the Bush which they can purpose Mr. Dongan caused premerchants, neither more nor less than if it the by given them to be ammunition and sents of arms

to declare

easily effect by making an incursion into the country, and for that

were himself who was to make war. There is no artifice, therefore My lord, that he did not employ to persuade them of their destruction, unless they destroyed us. Father de Lamberville, Jesuit Missionary at Onontague, one of the five villages, being advised of the wicked designs of the English, set all his friends to work to avert the storm, and enjoining them to report everything to him, he obtained from them that they would not budge until he had seen

During his absence Mr. Dongan sent an express to the Iroquois to notify them to march without delay and fall on the Colony, ordering Father de Lamberville's brother, who had remained as hostage to be brought to him, thinking to deprive us of all our missionaries among the Iroquois. At the same time, he sent emissaries among our savages at Montreal to debauch them and draw them me.