them to himself.

That he sends thirty English to take possession of Missilimakinak and the lakes, rivers and adjoining lands and orders the Iroquois to escort them and to afford them physical assistance. 3.

4.

That he has sent to recall the Iroquois Christians belonging to the Mohawk tribe, who have

settled a long time ago at Saut St. Louis, adjoining the Island of Montreal,

where they have been

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established

by us and converted by the care of our Reverend Jesuit Fathers, and that he would

give^them other land and an English Jesuit, to govern them. 5.

That he wishes that they should have Missionaries only from him throughout the whole of French Jesuits to withdraw, who have been so

the Five Iroquois Nations, and that they cause our

long established there. 6.

That if Monsieur de Denonville attacks them, he will have to do with him.

That he orders them to plunder all the French who will visit them ; to bind them and bring them to him, and what they'll take from them shall be good prize. The Iroquois. He accompanied his orders with presents to the Five Iroquois Nations, and despatched his thirty English, escorted by Iroquois, to make an establishment at Missilimakinak. The Iroquois pillage our Frenchmen every where they meet them, and threaten to fire their settlements which are much exposed and unfortified. These measures, and the discredit we are in among all the savages for having abandoned our allies in M. de la Barre's time, for having suffered them to be exterminated by the Iroquois and borne the insults of the latter, render war against them absolutely necessary to avert from us a General Rebellion of the Savages which would bring ruin on our trade and finally the extirpation of our 7.