Thus you see, My lord, that the Senecas and the English understand each other charmingly, and are in perfect harmony and this alliance is made particularly with the army whom M. de la Barre went against, for at the time of his march the Senecas ran to Orange to find Colonel Dongan to beg him to take them under his protection, giving themselves over to him by a public Acte which was registered and sent to England, and, then, he caused poles with the arms of England to be planted in ;
all their villages.
Nevertheless, previous to that time we had missionaries there, the first before any Englishman had
an idea that there were Senecas there.
I annex to this letter a memoir of our Right to all that Country of which our registers ought to be full, but of which we can find no trace. I am told that
M. Tallon had originals of the entries of possession (prises de possessions) of many discoveries made in this country, which our registers ought to contain.
Doubtless he has given them to my late lord,
your father. Father de Lamberville having given me an account of all the Colonel's intrigues which tended to take the Hurons
away from us and to draw off the Outawas, I entrusted him with presents to gain over the principal and most intriguing of the Iroquois to secure the friendship of the young men
;
DENONVILLe's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.
who were disposed to be out of humor with us.