24 Some New Vopges 



give an over-purchafe ; for they pay for them four 

 times more than they are worth. They laugh at 

 the Menaces of our Kings and Governors, for they 

 have no notion of dependance, nay, the very word 

 is to them infupportable. They look upon them- 

 felves as Sovereigns, accountable to none but God 

 alone, whom they call The Great Spirit. They wa- 

 ged War with us aim oft always, from the firft fet- 

 tiemene of our Colonies in Canada, to the firft years 

 of the Count of Frontenacs Government. Meffleurs 

 de Courfelks, and de Tract, both of 'em Governors- 

 Genera!, made Head againft the Agnies upon tile 

 Chamfiain Lake, in Winter as well as in Sum- 

 mer; but they could not boaft of any great Sue- 

 cefs. They only burnt their Villages, and carry'd 

 off fpme- hundred of their Children, of whom thq 

 above- mentioned Ircyuefe Chriftians are fprung. 'Tis 

 true, they cut off ninety or an hundred Warriours ; 

 but in compensation for that, feveral Canadans, and 

 fevera! Soldiers of the Regiment of Carignan, being 

 unprovided againft the unfufferable cold of the Cli- 

 mate, loft their Limbs, and even their Life it felf. 

 Count Frontenac who fucceeded Mr. Courfelle, per- 

 ceiving that the Barbarians had $ie advantage of the 

 Europeans, as to the waging of War in that Coun- 

 try ; upon this apprehenfion, 1 fay, he declined fuch 

 truitleis Expeditions, which were very chargeable to 

 the King, and us'd all his efforts to difpofe the Sa- 

 vages to a fincere and lading Peace. This judici- 

 ous Governor had three things in view; The firft 

 was to incourage the greateft part of the French In- 

 habitants, who would have abdicated the Colony, 

 and return'd to France, if the War had continued. 

 His fecond Topick was, that the conclufiott of a 

 Peace would difpofe an infinity of People to mar- 

 ry, and to grub up the Trees, upon which the Co- 

 lony would he better Peopled and inSarg'd. The 

 third Argument that diffuaded him from carrying 



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