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DE LA BARRELS EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.
contribute with the greatest joy, and with a punctuality with which you will be satisfied. I thinkthat on the present occasion you can well grant me the request I make to forbid those at Albany selling any Arms, Powder or Lead to the Iroquois who attacked us and to the other tribes who maytrade witli them.
This proceeding alone may intimidate them, and when they see the Christians united on thissubject they will shew them more respect than they have done hitherto.
If you have any cause of complaint against their conduct, you can advance it now, & I shallconsider your interests as those of my master, as soon as I shall hear from you I will answer regardingwhat you may require from my ministry in a manner entirely satisfactory to you, esteeming nothingin the world more highly than the opportunity to testify to you how truly I am
Sir
Your very humble serv 4(Signed) Le Febure de la Barre.
GOV. DONGAN TO M. DE LA BARRE.
S r —Y r * dated the 15 th I received the 23 d of S. V. of this Instant; & am very sorry that I did notknow sooner of the misunderstanding between you and the Indians that so I might (as really I would)haue vsed all just measures to prevent it
those Indians are under this Governm 4 as doth appeare by his R 11 High 83 his patent from his Ma‘ythe King of England and their submitting themselves to this Govern 1 as is manifest by o r Records,his R !l Highnesses territories reaching as far as the River of Canada and yet notwithstanding thepeople of y r Govern 4 Come upon the great lake as allso on this side of both lakes, a thing which wifiscarcely be beleeved in England
I desire you to hinder them from so doing; and I will strictly forbidde the people of this Provinceto go on your side of the lakes this I haue hinted that there may be no occasion, as there shall notundoubtedly of mine, to break that desirable and faire Correspondence between the two Kings ourMasters I am so heartily bent to promote the Quiet & tranquillity of this Country & yours that Iintend forthwith to go myselfe to Albany on purpose; and there send for the Indians, & require ofthem to do what is iust in order to a satisfaction to y r pretences; if they will not I shall not uniustlyprotect them, but do for yr Governm 1 all that can be reasonably expected from me; & in the meantime to continue & preserue a good Amity between us I think it convenient & desire that no Acts ofhostility be comitted, such differences are of so weighty a conceme that they are most proper to bedecided at home and not by us.
I do assure you S r that no body liueing hath a greater desire that there should be a strict friendship?betwixt the subjects of this Govern 4 & yours then I haue and no body more willing upon all Occa-sions ivstly to approue myselffe S r
Y r humble Serv 4
Tho. Dongan.