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remains of the summer in my own country, in 

 games and dances and rejoicing for the blessing of 

 peace." He had interspersed his discourse through- 

 out with now a song and now a dance; and the 

 council ended in a general dancing, in which 

 Iroquois, Hurons, i^lgonquins, Montagnais, Atti- 

 camegues, and French, all took part, after their 

 respective fashions. 



Tr spite of one or two palpable falsehoods that 

 embellished his oratory, the Jesuits were delighted 

 with him. " Every one admitted," says Vimont, " that 

 he was eloquent and pathetic. In short, he showed 

 himself an excellent actor, for one who has had 

 no instructor but Nature. I gathered only a few 

 fragments of his speech from the mouth of the 

 interpreter, who gave us but broken portions of it, 

 and did not translate consecutively." ^ 



Two days after, another council was called, 

 when the Governor gave his answer, accepting 

 the proffered peace, and confirming his acceptance 

 by gifts of considerable value. He demanded as 

 a condition, that the Indian allies of the French 

 should be left unmolested, until their principal 

 chiefs, who were not then present, should make a 

 formal treaty with the Iroquois in behalf of their 

 several nations. Piskaret then made a present to 

 mpe away the remembrance of the Iroquois he had 

 slaughtered, and the assembly was dissolved. 



1 Yimont describes the council at length in the Relation of 1645. 

 Marie de rincarnation also describes it in a letter to her son, of Sept. 14, 

 1645. She evidently gained her information from Vimont and the othel 

 Jesuits present. 



