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neral. The moft zealous mifllonary could not 

 have faid more ; he added however that they were 

 now fo much accmiomed to it that they could no 

 longer be without it; by which it was eafy to 

 gueis that mould the French refuie them, they 

 would certainly have recourfe to the Englifh : 

 that with reflect to the war with the Outegamies 

 nothing could be determined, except in a general 

 council of all the nations who acknowledge Onon- 

 thio, (fo the Indians call the French king) for 

 their father ; that no doubt they would all agree 

 in thinking the war neceiTary, but that they would 

 with great difficulty be brought to place any con- 

 fidence in the French, who after having once be- 

 fore united them to affift in exterminating the 

 common enemy, had granted them peace without 

 ever confulting with their allies, and without its 

 being poflible to find out any reafon for fiich a 

 proceeding. 



The day after I vifited the two Indian towns 

 near the fort ; I began with that of the Hurons 

 where I found all the matrons, and amongft them 

 the grand- mother of Safteratfi in much affliction 

 for being fo long deprived of every fpiritual fuc- 

 cour many circ urn fiances which I learned at the 

 fame time confirmed me in the opinion 1 had be- 

 fore fometime adopted, that certain private in- 

 terefts were the fole obftacles to the defires of thefe 

 good chriflians % it is to be hoped that the laft 

 orders of the council of the marine will remove 

 all thofe obftacles \ Monfieur de Tonti afTured me 

 he was going to fet about it in an effectual manner. 



Thofe who were my guides in this village af- 

 fured me, that were it not for the Hurons the 

 Other Indians of the Narrows mud die of hunger ; 



this 



