CHAPTER XXI. 



1699-1701. 

 CONCLUSION. 



The New Governor. — Attitude of the Iroquois. — Negotia- 

 tions. — Embassy to Onondaga. — Peace. — The Iroquois axd 

 the Allies. — Difficulties. — Death of the Great Huron - . — 

 Funeral Rites. — The Grand Council. — The Work of Frox- 

 tenac finished. — Results. 



It did not need the presence of Frontenac to 

 cause snappings and sparks in the highly electrical 

 atmosphere of New France. Callieres took his 

 place as governor ad interim, and in due time re- 

 ceived a formal appointment to the office. Apart 

 from the wretched state of his health, undermined 

 by gout and dropsy, he was in most respects well 

 fitted for it ; but his deportment at once gave um- 

 brage to the excitable Champigny, who declared 

 that he had never seen such hauteur since he came 

 to the colony. Another official was still more 

 offended. " Monsieur de Frontenac," he says, 

 " was no sooner dead than trouble began. Mon- 

 sieur cle Callieres, puffed up by his new authority, 

 claims honors due only to a marshal of France. It 

 would be a different matter if he, like his prede- 

 cessor, were regarded as the father of the country, 

 and the love and delight of the Indian allies. At 



