King for nearly a century without the English having up to this present time had any pretension to it.

They also employ the Iroquois to incite all our other Indians against us. They set them last year Hurons and the Outawas, our most ancient subjects swept by surprise from them more than 75 prisoners among whom were some of their principal Chiefs, killed several others, and finally offered them peace and the restitution of their prisoners, if they would quit the French and to attack the

;

acknowledge the English.

They sent the same Iroquois to attack the Illinois and the Miamis our allies who are in the neighborhood of Fort St. Louis, built by Mons r de la River Colbert or Mississippi

;

Salle

on the Illinois River which empties into the

massacred and burnt a great number of them and carried off many

prisoners with threats of entire extermination if they would not unite with them against the French.

Colonel Dongan, Governor of New York, has pushed this usurpation to the point of sending Englishmen to take possession, in the King of England's name, of the post of Mislimakinac which is a Strait communicating between lake Huron and lake des Illinois, and has even declared that all those lakes including the river St. Lawrence which serves as an outlet to

them and on which our

Colony is settled, belong to the English.

The Reverend Father Lamberville, a French Jesuit who has been 18 years a Missionary among company with one of his brothers also a Jesuit, wrote on the first of November to