believe could be imdertaken without them, could force them to make as great efforts on their side as

we have made on ours

;

it

will be easy to urge them to it as long as the French remain at Missilimakinac and at other posts, but when the fatal moment of their return arrives, their absence will put an absolute termination to the little good will the former may feel towards us, when they shall see themselves abandoned.

Possibly they will be greatly cooled down this autumn, seeing neither powder nor balls, nor goods coming to them. ing them with the means ; if

How can they be persuaded to wage war without furnishhow can the destruction of the Iroquois be completed without their aid,

they withdraw from us and retire into the woods ?

Count de Frontenac learned on his arrival, that an Onnontague who had been captured at the fort above the island of Montreal [killed] himself in prison.

COUNT

On the 22 d August, thirteen Algonquins brought in two Mohawk scalps, and one woman and two Seven savages from the Sault and the Mountain who had been detached to Oneida girls, prisoners. r with Mons de Vaudreuil, brought in a prisoner of the same Nation, who was burned at Montreal. Some small parties of the enemy appeared along the south shore, but they made no attack, and the harvest has been saved very quietly.

COLL. FLETCHER TO THE LORDS OF THE LATE COMMITTEE DATED THE 22d AUG. 1696. [