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He found them unusually arrogant. Instead of 

 coming to him, they demanded that he should come 

 to them, and many of the French wished him to 

 comply; but Frontenac refused, on the ground 

 that such a concession would add to their insolence, 

 and he declined to go farther than Montreal, or at 

 the utmost Fort Frontenac, the usual place of 

 meeting with them. Early in August he was at 

 Montreal, expecting the arrival of the Ottawas and 

 Hurons on their yearly descent from the lakes. 

 They soon appeared, and he called them to a 

 solemn council. Terror had seized them all. 

 " Father, take pity on us," said the Ottawa orator, 

 "for we are like dead men." A Huron chief, 

 named the Rat, declared that the world was turned 

 upside down, and implored the protection of Onon- 

 tio, " who is master of the whole earth." These 

 tribes were far from harmony among themselves. 

 Each was jealous of the other, and the Ottawas 

 charged the Hurons with trying to make favor with 

 the common enemy at their expense. Frontenac 

 told them that they were all his children alike, and 

 advised them to live together as brothers, and 

 make treaties of alliance with all the tribes of the 

 lakes. At the same time, he urged them to make 

 full atonement for the death of the Seneca mur- 

 dered in their country, and carefully to refrain 

 from any new offence. 



Soon after there was another arrival. La Foret, 

 the officer in command at Fort Frontenac, appeared, 

 bringing with him a famous Iroquois chief called 

 Decanisora or Tegannisorens, attended by a num- 



