DE LA BARRe’s EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.

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I am very glad to tell you that from every thing I learn of what has occurred in Canada , the faultwhich you committed in not punctually executing my orders relative to the number of twenty-livelicenses to be granted to my subjects, and the great number you have sent on all sides, in order tofavor persons belonging to yourself, appears to me to have been the principal cause of what has hap-pened on the part of the Iroquois . I hope you will repair this fault by giving a prompt and glorioustermination to this war.

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It appears to me also that one of the principal causes of the war arises from one Du Lliut havingcaused two Iroquois to be killed who had assassinated two Frenchmen in Lake Superior , and yousufficiently see how much this man’s voyage, which cannot produce any advantage to the Colony, andwhich was permitted only in the interest of some private persons, has contributed to disturb the re-pose of the Colony.

As it concerns the good of iny service to diminish as much as possible the number of the Iroquois ,and as these Savages who are stout and robust, will, moreover, serve with advantage in my galleys,I wish you to do every thing in your power to make a great number of them prisoners of war, andthat you have them shipped by every opportunity which will offer for their removal to France .***********

I desire likewise that you leave Fort Frontenac in the possession of Sieur de la Salle or those whoare there for him, and that you do nothing in opposition to the interest of that man whom I takeunder my specialjprotection.

MEMOIR OF M. DE LA BARRE

AS TO WHAT HAD OCCURRED AND HAD BEEN DONE REGARDING THE WAR AGAINST THE SENECAS.

[Paris Doc. II.]

Having been obliged to leave early in June, in conformity to the resolution adopted by the Inten-dant, the Bishop, the heads of the country and myself, to wage war against the Senecas for having,in cold blood, pillaged seven hundred canoes belonging to Frenchmen ; arrested and detained thelatter to the number of fourteen, as prisoners for nine days, and finally attacked Fort. St. Louis ofthe Illinois , where the Chevalier de Bangy gallantly defended himself, and having resolved, at thesame time, to seize Teganeout, one of their chiefs and his twelve companions who had come to latifythe peace made last year, who left their country before they heard of this attack, which circumstancewould oblige me not to treat them ill, but merely to secure their persons, we consideied three thingsnecessary: First, to endeavour to divide the Iroquois among themselves, and for this purpose, tosend persons expressly to communicate my sentiments to the Rev d Jesuit Fathers who are Missiona­ ries there and to request them to act; the second, to send to the Outaouacs to engage our French tocome to my assistance by the South, by Lake Erie and to bring as many as they could of the Savages,our allies; and thirdly, to advise Colonel Dongan, Governor of New York of what we were obligedto do, whilst at the same time I would throw a considerable reinforcement of men into Fort Fi'ontenacto secure it. Being arrived at Montreal the tenth of the said month, we sent for Mr. Dollier, Supe­ rior of the Seminary of said town and of the Mission to the Indians of the Mountain , and theReverend Pere Briare, Superior of the Mission of the Sault Saint Louis, who having concurred with

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