Of these there are sixteen companies which make 800 men and 800 selected from the habitans, 100 come Of these 3000 Frenchmen, of which he has only the half though incessantly to convey provisions. he boasts of more for reputation's sake, because the other habitans are necessary to protect and cultivate the farms of the Colony, a part must be employed in guarding the posts of Fort Frotenac, Niagara, Toronto, Missilimakinak so as to secure the aid he expects from the Illinois and other Savages, on whom however he cannot rely unless he will be able alone to defeat the Five Iroquois Nations. The Iroquois force consists of two thousand picked warriors {$ elite) brave, active, more skilful in the use of the gun than our Europeans and all well armed; besides twelve hundred Mohegans of the best of which the Governor General destines to conduct 50 canoes which will go and

(Loups), another tribe in alliance with them as brave as they, not including the English

who will

supply them with officers to lead them, and to fortify them in their villages. If they be not attacked all at once at the two points indicated, it is impossible to destroy them or

them from their retreat, but if encompassed on both sides, all their plantations^ of Indian corn will be destroyed, their villages burnt, their women, their children and old men captured and other warriors driven into the woods where they will be pursued and annihilated by the other to drive