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.

He approves of them and doubts

not of success, and that it will be as favorable as can be expected having to do only with Savages

who have no experience as to regular war, whilst, on the contrary, those he will be able to collect, being led by a man so capable and so experienced as he is, will be of great utility. Finally, He expects to learn at the close of this year, the entire destruction of the greatest' part of

those Savages.

And as a number of prisoners may be made, and His Majesty thinks he can make

use of them in his Galleys, He desires him to manage so as to retain them until he have vessels for

by the return of His Majesty's Ships which will convey the troops he can, even, send those which will have been captured before the departure of these ships. France

;

COLL.

DONGAN TO FATHER DE LAMBERVILLE. [ Lond.

Doc. V. ] 20 May. 1687,