The M. de Denonville.

M.

DE DENONYILLE TO THE MINISTER. [

From the same. ] Quebec, 16th Nov. 1686.

My Lord,--Since my letters were written a very intelligent man whom I sent to Manat, who has

conversed and had

Colonel

has despatched

much

intercourse

to winter with the Senecas

with Colonel Dongan, reports to

me that the said

Manat among whom are some Frenchmen, whence they will depart, at the close of the winter, under the escort

fifty citizens

of Orange and

of the Senecas, for Michilimaquina, carrying with them the Huron prisoners to restore them on. the part of the English Governor, who is desirous to prevail on the Outaouas, by the service -

which he renders them, to abandon our

alliance

They carry an abundance of merchandise thither

in order to attach themselves to furnish it at

to the English.

a much lower rate than we.

DENONVILLE'S EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

This is not all.

Colonel Dongan has given orders that one hundred and fifty other English should

by several Mohegan Indians to follow the first fifty Englishmen with goods. But this detachment is not to leave until spring. I believe there is no room to doubt but the design Were the English once established there, they must be driven oft' or is to seize the post of Niagara. we must bid adieu to the whole trade of the country. depart, accompanied

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The same man who came from Manat told me that within a short time fifty or sixty men, Hugenots, arrived there