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Mr. de Denonvilk defign'd to clap up a Peace with 

 the Irccjuefe. The condemned Prifoner gave an ac- 

 count of his Adventure, and that of the Ambaffa- 

 dours ; but the French thought that the fear of Death 

 made the fellow talk idely, and were confirmed in 

 that thought, by hearing the Rat and his Men fay 

 t;hat he was Light-headed : Infornuch, that the poor 

 Fellow was put to death, notwithftanding all the 

 reafons he could offer. The fame day that he was 

 (hot, the Rat call'd an old Iroyuefe Slave that had 

 ferv'd him a long while, and told him he had re- 

 folv'd to allow him the liberty of returning to his 

 own Country, and fpending the reft of his days 

 among his Friends and Country-men, At the fame 

 time he gave him to know, that fmce he had been an 

 Eye-witnefsof the barbarous ufage that his Country- 

 men had met with from the French, notwithftand- 

 ing what he offer 'd in his own defence, it behov'd 

 htm to acquaint his Countrymen with the black- 

 nefs of that A&ion. The manumitted Slave obeyed 

 his orders fo punctually, that foon after the Iroquefe 

 made an Incurfion, at a time when the Governour 

 did not dream of any fuch thing, for he had us'd 

 the Precaution of giving the Irocjuefe to underftand, 

 that he difallow'd of the Rat's Treachery ; info- 

 much, that he had a mind to have him hang'd j and 

 upon this profped:, expected hourly ten or twelve 

 Deputies to conclude the Peace he fo much defir'd. 



In effeft the Deputies did come, but neither their 

 Number nor their Defign was fui table to what the 

 Governour had promifed to himfelfc Twelve hun- 

 dred Warriours landed at the Lands-end of the Ifland 

 of Monrealy and burnt and fack'd all the Plantations 

 in that Quarter: They malfacred Men, Women, 

 and Children ; and Madam de Denotrville, who was 

 thea at Monreal with her Husband, did not think 

 her felf fafe in that place* A general Confternatiore 

 was fpread all about j for the Barbarians wfere not a- 



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