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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.

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Meules au Ministre, 8-11 Juillet, 1684.

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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.

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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.

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This appears from the letters of Denonville, La Barre's successor.

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La Potherie, II. 159 (ed. 1722). Perrot himself, in his Mœurs des Sauvages, briefly mentions the incident.

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Lamberville to La Barre, 9 Oct., 1684, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 260.

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Meules au Ministre, 10 Oct., 1684.

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Saint-Vallier, État Présent de l'Église, 4 (Quebec, 1856).

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Juchereau, Hôtel-Dieu, 283.

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Denonville au Ministre, 12 Juin, 1686.

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New York had about 18,000 inhabitants (Brodhead, Hist. N. Y., II. 458). Canada, by the census of 1685, had 12,263.

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Seignelay to Barillon, French Ambassador at London, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 269.

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Denonville à Seigneloy, 8 Nov., 1686.

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Denonville à Seignelay, 12 Juin, 1686.

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Ibid.

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Dongan to Denonville, 13 Oct., 1685, in N. Y. Col. Docs., IX, 292.

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Denonville to Dongan, 5 Juin, 1686, N. Y. Col. Docs., III. 456.