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

savages.

After having defeated and dispersed them the winter must be spent in fortifying the post "of Niagara, the most important in America, by means of which all the other nations will be shut out from

the lakes whence all the peltries are obtained ;

it will be necessary to

winter troops at this post and

at others, to prevent the Iroquois returning and reestablishing themselves there, and to people these

beautiful countries with other savages who will have served under us during this war.

EXTRACT FROM A MEMOIR OF THE KING TO SIEURS MARQUIS DE DENONVILLE AND DE CHAMPIGNY, DATED VERSAILLES, 30 th MARCH, 1687.

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His Majesty has no knowledge of the claim of Colonel D'Unguent for 25 m ,bs which he pretends to be due him in France ; therefore he has nothing to say about it.

His Majesty has seen the Memoir that the said Sieur de Denonville has sent of the measures he has adopted and the orders he has given for the ensuing campaign.