Returning to our batteaux I should have greatly wished to have been able to visit other villages, but the sickness, the extreme fatigue among all and the uneasiness of the savages who began to disband, determined me to proceed to Niagara to erect a fort there in their presence, and point out to them a sure asylum to encourage them to come this winter to war in small bodies. I selected the angle of the Lake on the Seneca side of the river; it is the most beautiful, the most is on the whole of this Lake, the Map and plan of which you will have if Sieur de Ville marie will take the trouble, for I tormented him considerably I sent him expressly to Quebec that he may have nothing else to do. for it

pleasing and the most advantageous site that

;

This post being in a state of defence I left a hundred men there under the command of Sieur de Troyes who made the Northern expedition last year.

He is a worthy fellow who richly deserves some share in the honour of your good graces and protection. He can be very useful to you in many things he is prudent and intelligent, very willing, and has well served on land. ;

This post has caused much joy to all our farther Indians, who having no place of retreat, scarcely

dared to approach the enemy.

They have made me great promises

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