Chevalier Andros, now Governor General of New England and New York, having already declared in his letters to M. de Denonville that

he took all the Iroquois under his protection as subjects of the Crown of England and having prevented them returning to M. de Denonville to make peace

with us, there is no longer reason to hope for its conclusion through the English nor for the alienation of the Iroquois from the close union which exists with those in consequence of the great advantages

they derive from thence, the like to which we cannot offer for divers reasons. Chevalier Andros is a protestant as well as the whole English Colony so that there is no reason to

hope that he will remain faithful to the King of England [James II.] and we must expect that he will not only urge the Iroquois to continue the war against us but that he will even add Englishmen to them to lead them and seize the posts of Niagara, Michilimakinak and others proper to render him master of all the Indians our allies, according to the project they have long since formed, and which they began to execute when we declared war against the Iroquois and when we captured 70 Englishmen who were going to take possession of Michilimakinak, one of the most important posts of Canada our entrepot for the Fur Trade and the residence of the Superior of the Rev Jesuit ;

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Fathers, Missionaries among our Savages, and which belongs, incontestably to us. It is to be expected, then, that