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.
