Our march cannot begin before the fifteenth of May, for we must let the sowing be finished, and the storms before that time are furious on our river and Lake Ontario. I say nothing of the risks to be incurred that the harvest will not be saved next year on account of the war, nor of the necesBy sending us troops, many things will be done of which we dare not sity of making store-houses.

dream if you do not send any.

A few days since a man named Antoine L'Epinart, an old resident among the Dutch, at present among the English, came to Ville Marie on the Island of Montreal in search of a child he had boarding with the Jesuits. He reports that the English kept watch three months this summer, our deserters having told them that I would attack them for having armed the Iroquois against us. He also says that the Iroquois are drawing to them the Loups (Mohegans) and other tribes toward the Andastes,

with whom they are forming alliances

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;

he believed the Iroquois had evil intentions toward us

Most probably, Lake Aleminipigon of the old maps; now L. St. Ann, north of Lake Superior.

--that

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

the English who had been to the Outtawas had been well received and invited to return among them with merchandize, and well nigh procured from the Iroquois the restitution of their prisoners, by

which means they will be more attached to them than to us that the Merchants at Orange had urgently entreated Colonel Dongan to request the Senecas to surrender the prisoners that the Colonel had convoked a meeting of the Five Nations who went together to see him that it is the general belief that the Colonel will obtain satisfaction of the Iroquois and thus the English will attract to ;