292 PEACE. [1646. 



In the evening, Vimont invited the ambassadors 

 to the mission-house, and gave each of them a 

 sack of tobacco and a pipe. In return, Kiotsaton 

 made him a speech: "When I left my country, 

 I gave up my life ; I went to meet death, and I 

 owe it to you that I am yet alive. I thank you 

 that I still see the sun ; I thank you for all your 

 words and acts of kindness ; I thank you for your 

 gifts. You have covered me with them from head 

 to foot. You left nothing free but my mouth ; and 

 now you have stopped that with a handsome pipe, 

 and regaled it with the taste of the herb we love. 

 I bid you farewell, — not for a long time, for you 

 vdll hear from us soon. Even if we should be 

 drowned on our way home, the winds and the 

 waves will bear witness to our countrymen of your 

 favors ; and I am sure that some good spirit has 

 gone before us to tell them of the good news that 

 we are about to bring." ^ 



On the next day, he and his companion set forth 

 on their return. Kiotsaton, when he saw his party 

 embarked, turned to the French and Indians who 

 lined the shore, and said with a loud voice, " Fare- 

 well, brothers ! I am one of your relations now." 

 Then turning to the Governor, — " Onontio, your 

 name will be great over all the earth. When I 

 came hither, I never thought to carry back my 

 head, I never thought to come out of your doors 

 alive ; and now I return loaded with honors, gifts, 

 and kindness." "Brothers," — to the Indians, — 

 " obey Onontio and the French. Their hearts and 



1 Vimont, Relation, 1645, 28. 



