the cause that of six 700 savages on whom we relied, only 80 came, which was the reason of their having been obliged to come to the fort of Detroit to join Sieurs du L'hut and de la Duranit was

taye not being able to take the Senecas in the rear.

On quitting Niagara I left M. de Vaudreuil there for a few days with the troops to cut fire wood, after having done what was necessary for lodgings.

The inconvenience of this post is, that timber M. de Callieres and I returned without delay with our habitans to issue the

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is at a distance from it.

orders necessary for the interior of the Colony.

I have not yet told you,

my lord, that the habitans who left the lower part of the Colony, will on

their return to their homes, have made four hundred and sixty leagues from the 24 May to about the

You will well conceive that, what with the two forts which it was necessary

17 th or 18 th of August.

to build, the destruction of the enemy's corn and the thirty leagues of road we had, going and coming, to travel by land, they will not have been idle. It was impossible for us to

do any more than we accomplished, for provisions would have failed

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us hadnve made a longer delay.

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It is full 30 years that I have had the honour to serve, but I assure

you, my lord, that I have seen nothing that comes near this in labour and fatigue.