of which were before Orange (Albany) was what it is, or any of Manate were acquainted with the Iroquois and the Ouatouas.

When you arrived at your present government, did you not find, Sir, in the whole of the five Iroquois villages, all our Missionaries sent by the King almost the entire of whom the heretic merchants have caused to be expelled even in your time, which is not honorable to your government. It is only three years since the greater

number have been forced to leave

alone bore up against the insults and

ill

traders.

;

the fathers Lambreville

treatment they received through the solicitations of your

Is it not true, Sir, that you panted only to

induce them to abandon their mission ]

You

you took the trouble to send under a guise of duty so late as last year to solicit them by urgent discourses to retire under the pretext that I wished to declare war against the village of the Onnontagues. What certainty had you of it, Sir, if it were not your charge and prohibitions you had given them, against giving me up the prisoners I demanded of them, and they surrendered to me 1 You foresaw the war I would make because you wished me to make it against them and because you obliged me to wage that against the Senecas. In this way, Sir, it is very easy to recollect, Sir, that

foresee what occurs. I admire, Sir, the passage of

your last letter of the 11 th June of this year in which you state that