La Salle's people. Denonville, Mémoire adressé ou Ministre sur les Affaires de la Nouvelle France, 10 Août, 1688. The Iroquois told Dongan, in 1684, "that they had not don any thing to the French but what Monsr. delaBarr Ordered them, which was that if they mett with any French hunting without his passe to take what they had from them." Dongan to Denonville, 9 Sept., 1687.
90
"Ce qui mit M. de la Barre en fureur." Belmont, Histoire du Canada.
91
La Barre au Roy, 5 Juin, 1684.
92
Sir John Werden to Dongan, 4 Dec., 1684; N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 353. Werden was the duke's secretary.
Dongan has been charged with instigating the Iroquois to attack the French. The Jesuit Lamberville, writing from Onondaga, says, on the contrary, that he hears that the "governor of New England (New York), when the Mohawk chiefs asked him to continue the sale of powder to them, replied that it should be continued so long as they would not make war on Christians." Lamberville à La Barre, 10 Fév., 1684.
The French ambassador at London complained that Dongan excited the Iroquois to war, and Dongan denied the charge. N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 506, 509.
93
Report of Conferences at Albany, in Colden, History of the Five Nations, 50 (ed. 1727, Shea's reprint).
94
La Barre à Dongan, 15 Juin, 1684.
95
Dongan à La Barre, 24 Juin, 1684.
96
Speech of the Onondagas and Cayugas, in Colden, Five Nations, 63 (1727).
97
Except the small tribe of the Oneidas, who addressed Corlaer as Father. Corlaer was the official Iroquois name of the governor of New York; Onas (the Feather, or Pen), that of the governor of Pennsylvania; and Assarigoa (the Big Knife, or Sword), that of the governor of Virginia. Corlaer, or Cuyler, was the name of a Dutchman whom the Iroquois held in great respect.
98
Journal of Wentworth Greenhalgh, 1677, in N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 250.
99
Journal of Greenhalgh. The site of Onondaga, like that of all the Iroquois towns, was changed from time to time, as the soil of the neighborhood became impoverished, and the supply of wood exhausted. Greenhalgh, in 1677, estimated the warriors at three hundred and fifty; but the number had increased of late by the adoption of prisoners.
100
Letters of Lamberville in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. For specimens of Big Mouth's skill in drawing, see ibid., IX. 386.
101
Lamberville to La Barre, 11 July, 1684, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 253.
102
Colden, Five Nations, 80 (1727).
103
Lamberville to La Barre, 28 Aug., 1684, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 257.
104
La Barre au Ministre, 9 July, 1684.
105
La Barre au Roy, même date.
106
Meules à La Barre, 15 July, 1684.
107
Meules à La Barre, 14 Août, 1684. This and the preceding letter stand, by a copyist's error, in the name of La Barre. They are certainly written by Meules.
108
The famous voyageur, Nicolas Perrot, agrees with the intendant. "Ils (La Barre et ses associés) s'imaginèrent que sitost que le François viendroit à paroistre, l'Irroquois luy demanderoit miséricorde, quil seroit facile d'establir des magasins, construire des barques dans le lac Ontario, et que c'estoit un moyen de trouver des richesses." Mémoire sur les Mœurs, Coustumes, et Relligion des Sauvages, chap. xxi.
109
Meules au Ministre, 8-11 Juillet, 1684.
110
La Hontan attempted to impose on his readers a marvellous story of pretended discoveries beyond the Mississippi; and his ill repute in the matter of veracity is due chiefly to this fabrication. On the other hand, his account of what he saw in the colony is commonly in accord with the best contemporary evidence.
111
The articles of peace will be found in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 236. Compare Memoir of M. de la Barre regarding the War against the Senecas, ibid., 239. These two documents do not agree as to date, one placing the council on the 4th and the other on the 5th.
112
This appears from the letters of Denonville, La Barre's successor.
113
La Potherie, II. 159 (ed. 1722). Perrot himself, in his Mœurs des Sauvages, briefly mentions the incident.
114
Lamberville to La Barre, 9 Oct., 1684, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 260.
115
Meules au Ministre, 10 Oct., 1684.
116
Saint-Vallier, État Présent de l'Église, 4 (Quebec, 1856).
117
Juchereau, Hôtel-Dieu, 283.
118
Denonville au Ministre, 12 Juin, 1686.
119
New York had about 18,000 inhabitants (Brodhead, Hist. N. Y., II. 458). Canada, by the census of 1685, had 12,263.
120
Seignelay to Barillon, French Ambassador at London, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 269.
121
Denonville à Seigneloy, 8 Nov., 1686.
122
Denonville à Seignelay, 12 Juin, 1686.
123
Ibid.
124
Dongan to Denonville, 13 Oct., 1685, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX, 292.
125
Denonville to Dongan, 5 Juin, 1686, N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 456.
La Salle's people. Denonville, 