to North- America. if 



on the War, was a defign of purfuing the difcove- 

 ry of the Lakes 9 and of the Savages that live upon 

 their banks, in order to fettle a Commerce with 

 *em, and at the fame time to ingage them in our 

 interefts, by good Alliances, in cafe of a Rupture 

 with the Iroquefe. Upon the confideration of thefe 

 Reafons, he fent fome Canadans by way of a for- 

 mal Embaffy to the Iroquefe Villages , in order to 

 acquaint them, that the King being informed that a 

 ^roundlefs War was carried on againft them, had 

 fent him from France to make peace with 'em. At 

 the fame time the Ambaffadors had orders to ftipu- 

 late all the advantages they could obtain with refe- 

 rence to the Commerce. The Iroquefe heard this 

 Propofal with a great deal of Satisfaction ; for 

 Charles II. King of England, had ordered his Gover- 

 nor in New-York to represent to 3 em, that if they 

 continued to wage War with the French, they were 

 ruin'd, and that they would find themfelves crufh'd 

 by the numerous Forces that were ready to fail 

 from France. In effed, they promised to the Am- 

 baffadors that four hundred of their number fhould 

 meet Count Frontenac, attended by an equal number 

 of his Men, at the place where Fort Frontenac now 

 ftands. Accordingly, fome Months after, both the 

 one and the other met at the place appointed, and 

 fo a Peace was concluded. Mr. de la Salle was very 

 ferviceable to this Governor, in giving him good 

 and feafonable Advices, which I cannot now enter 

 upon, being obliged to make fome preparations for 

 my Voyage. When the Campaign is over, you 

 may expert to hear from me. In the mean time, 



I am, 



SIR, 



Yours, &c. 



