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

from the Islands of St. Christophers and Martinique, who are establishing themThere I know that some have arrived at Boston from Prance.

selves at Manat and its environs.

again, are people to operate as Banditti.

Whilst writing this, My lord, further advice is come from Orange that Colonel Dongan sent to tell the fifty men who are to winter among the Senecas, not to leave until the arrival at the Senecas of the one hundred and fifty men which he

is

to despatch in the spring to support them.

The reason

Du Lhut is posted at the Detroit of If those men commanded with the savages attack that post, you perceive, my lord, that

of this order is that he has learned by Indians that the Sieur

Lake Erie.

Send me, if you please, orders on this point, for my disposition is to go straight to Orange, drive them into their fort, and burn the whole. I have nothing more to manage with

the English.

The English governor prompted at present by the cupidity of the merchants and by his avarice to drag money from them, pretends that all the country is his, and will trade thither though an Englishman has never been there.