HISTORY OF VERMONT. 28^ 



that it was the French governor that had given 

 him intelhgence that fifty warriors of the five * 

 nations were coming that way. 



To be betrayed by the person with whom 

 they had agreed upon a treaty, and were now 

 going to confirm it ; and at the same time to be 

 cldivered into the hands of a party vwith whom 

 they were at war, exceeded all the coifceptions 

 the savages had been able to form of duplicity, 

 perfidy, and baseness ; and in their rage against 

 De Nonvilie, they declared to Adario the nature 

 of their business, and the design of their jour-^ 

 ney. Adario instantly put on all the appearan- 

 ces of anger, shame, and distress, at being made 

 the executioner of De Nonville's baseness and 

 treachery. He flew to the principal of the am- 

 bassadors, cut his bands, and set liim at liberty. 

 *' Go, says he, my brother, return to your na- 

 tion, and tell thenpit was the French who led. 

 me to commit so base and vile an action, as to 

 make an attack upon the messengers of peace. 

 Though our nations are at war, you are at liber- 

 ty ; and I shall never be at rest, till you hare 

 revenged upon the French, the base and perfidi- 

 ous conduct into which they have betrayed me." 

 By these arts, similar to those of more polished , 

 nations, Adario secured peace for his own tribe, 

 and left the contending powers more exaspera- 

 ted against each other than they had ever been 

 before. 



The intelligence soon reached the five na-^ 

 tions that their ambassadors had been intercept- 

 ed, and assaulted by the contrivance of the 

 French governor ; and they did not doubt of 

 the truth of the information. The whole nation 



