THE 



PREFACE. 



Aving flatter d my felf with the vain 

 hopes of retrieving the King of Fran- 

 ce's favour j before the Declaration of 

 this War ; I was Jo far from thinking 

 to put thefk Letters , and Memoirs, to the Prefs ; 

 that Idejigndio have committed 'em to the flames, 

 if that Monarch had done me the honour of 

 reinftating me in my former F } laces \ with the good 

 leave of Meffieurs de Pont- 

 chartrain \ * the Father and * The one ckamUor of 



. j n . » .» . France, and the other 



the Sen. TWOS Wtth that View secretary of Stats: Both 



that 1 neglected to put "em in of \m vafiiy rick 

 fuch a drefs as might now be 

 wiftid for, for the fatisfaftion of the Reader 

 that gives himfelf the t rouble to perufe 'em. 



Between the fifteenth and fixteenth year of my 

 Age I went to Canada, and there took care to keep 

 up a conflant Qorrefpondence ly Letters with an old 

 Relation, who had required ojme a Narrative of the 

 Occurrences of f hat Country ^ upon the account of the 

 yearly ajjiflance he gave me. Tis tkefe very Let- 

 ters that make the great eft part of the firft Vo- 

 turn. They Contain an account of all that pafsd 

 between the Englilh, the French, the Iroquefc, 



A 5 and 



