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(Loups), another tribe in alliance with them as brave as they, not including the English who willsupply them with officers to lead them, and to fortify them in their villages.
If they be not attacked all at once at the two points indicated, it is impossible to destroy them orto drive them from their retreat, but if encompassed on both sides, all their plantations^ Indiancorn will be destroyed, their villages burnt, their women, their children and old men captured andother warriors driven into the woods where they will be pursued and annihilated by the othersavages.
After having defeated and dispersed them the winter must be spent in fortifying the posUof Nia-gara, the most important in America , by means of which all the other nations will be shut out fromthe lakes whence all the peltries are obtained; it will be necessary to winter troops at this post andat others, to prevent the Iroquois returning and reestablishing themselves there, and to people thesebeautiful countries with other savages who will have served under us during this war.
EXTRACT FROM A MEMOIR OF THE KING
TO SIEURS MARQUIS DE DENONVILLE AND DE CHAMPIGNY, DATED VERSAILLES, 30 th MARCH, 1687.
[Paris Doc. III.]
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His Majesty has no knowledge of the claim of Colonel D’Unguent for 25 m lbs which he pretendsto be due him in France ; therefore he has nothing to say about it.
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His Majesty has seen the Memoir that the said Sieur de Denonville has sent of the measures hehas adopted and the orders he has given for the ensuing campaign. He approves of them and doubtsnot of success, and that it will be as favorable as can be expected having to do only with Savageswho have no experience as to regular war, whilst, on the contrary, those he will be able to collect,being led by a man so capable and so experienced as he is, will be of great utility.
Finally, He expects to learn at the close of this year, the entire destruction of the greatest part ofthose Savages. And as a number of prisoners may be made, and His Majesty thinks he can makeuse of them in his Galleys, He desires him to manage so as to retain them until he have vessels forFrance ; by the return of His Majesty’s Ships which will convey the troops he can, even, send thosewhich will have been captured before the departure of these ships.
COLL. DONGAN TO FATHER DE LAMBERVILLE.
[ Lond. Doc. V. ]
20 May. 1687,
Reverend Father I have received yours of the tenth currant from the Onnondages and am heart-ily glad that you are in good health and as much as lyes in me you may bee assured I will do all myendeavors to protect you from the danger you apprehend from those people and all those others of