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"Le Junard;" In the mean time I will give you fuch Advice as will be for your good, and will supply you with fuch Neceffarys "as you will have need of.

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First, My Advice is, that as many Pri"foners of the French, as you shall take, that you draw not their Blood, but bring them "home and keep them to Exchange for your "People, which they have Prisoners already or may take hereafter.

"2dly, That if it be Poffible, that you can "order it fo, I would have you take one or "two of your wifeft Sachems, and one or

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two chief Captains of each Nation, to be "a Council to manage all Affairs of the War. They to give Orders to the rest of the "Officers what they are to do, that your defigns may be kept Private, for after it comes among fo many People, it is Blazed "abroad, and your defigns are often fruftrated. "And those chief Men to keep a Correfpondence with me, by a Trufty Meffen

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3dly, Now the Great matter under "Confideration with the Brethren, is, how "to ftrengthen themselves, and weaken your "Enemy. My Opinion is, that the Brethren "fhould fend Meffengers to the Utawawas, "Twibtwichs, and the farther Indians, and to "fend back likewife fome of the Prisoners of

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bury the Hatchet, and to make a Covenant "Chain, that they may put away all the "French that are among them, and that you "will open a Path for them this way, They being the King of England's Subjects like"wife, only the French have been admitted to "Trade with them, for all that the French have "in Canada, they had it of the Great King of "England," that by that Means they may come "hither freely where they may have every thing Cheaper than among the French.

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That you and they may joyn together against "the French, and make fo firm a League that "whoever is an Enemy to one, must be to "both.

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4thly, Another thing of Concern is, that you ought to do what you can to open a "Path forall the North Indiansand Mabikanders "that are among the Utawawas and farther "Nations: I will endeavour to do the fame, "to bring them home; for they not daring "to return home your way, the French keep "them there on purpose to joyn with the "farther Nations against you, for your Deftrucc ction; for you know, that one of them is "worfe than fix of the others. Therefore all means must be used to bring them Home, and use them kindly as they pass through your Country.

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5thly, My Advice further is, That Meffengers go in behalf of all the Five Nations, "to the Chriftian Indians at Canada, "to perfwade them to come Home to their "Native Country, and to promise them "all Protection. This will be another great " means to weaken your Enemy; but if they "will not be advised, you know what to do with them."

"6thly, I think it very necessary for the "Brethrens Security and Affiftance, and to "the endamaging the French, to build a Fort "upon the Lake, where I may keep Stores "and Provifions in cafe of neceffity; and "therefore I would have the Brethren let me "know what Place will be moft convenient " for it.

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7thly, I would not have the Brethren keep "their Corn in their Caftles, as I hear the Onnondagas do, but to bury it a great way "the Woods, where few People may know " where it is, for fear of fuch an Accident as "has happen'd to the Sennekas.

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8thly, I have given my Advice in your "General Affembly by Mr. Dirk Wessels and "Akus the Interpreter, how you are to manage

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your Partys, and how neceffary it is to get "Prisoners, to exchange for your own Men "that are Prifoners with the French. And I I am glad to hear that the Brethren are so "United, as Mr. Dirk Weffels tells me you

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9thly, The Brethren may remember my "Advice which I fent you this Spring, Not "to go to Cadarackui; if you had, they would "have ferv'd you as they did your People "who came from Hunting thither; for I "told you then, that I knew the French better " than you did.

"1othly. There was no Advice or Propo"fition that I made to the Brethren, all the "time that the Prieft liv'd at Onondaga, but "what he wrote to Canada, as I found by one "of his Letters, which he gave to an Indian "to carry to Canada, but was brought hither. "Therefore I defire the Brethren not to re"ceive him or any French Priests any more, "having fent for English Priests, with whom you may be fupply'd to your Content."

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11. I would have the Brethren look out "fharp for fear of being furprised. I be"lieve all the Strength of the French will be "at their Frontier Places, viz. at Cadarackui "and Oniagara, where they build a Fort now, "and at Trois Rivieres, Montreal and Chambly.

12. Let me put you in mind again, not "to make any Treatys without my Means, "which will be more Advantagious for you, "than your doing it by your felves, for then you will be look'd upon as the King of

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"England's Subjects. And let me know, from "time to time, every thing that is done. "Thus far I have spoken to you relating to "the War.

Then he chid them for their Breach of Faith with Virginia. He told them, that he was inform'd that laft Spring they had kill'd a fine Gentleman, with fome others, and that a Party of the Oneydoes was now there at the head of James River, with intention to destroy all the Indians there-about. They had taken fix Prisoners, whom he order'd them to bring to him, to be Reftored; and that for the future they should defift from doing any Injury to the People of Virginia or their Indians, otherwife all the English would unite to deftroy them. But at the fame time he free'd the Sennekas from any blame, and commended them as a brave and honeft People, who never had done any thing contrary to his Orders, except in making that unlucky Peace with the French three years a go.

Lastly, He recommended to them, Not to fuffer their People to be Drunk, during the War: A Soldier thereby (he faid) looses his Reputation, because of the Advantages it will give the Enemy over him.

This honeft Gentleman earnestly pursued the Intereft of his Country; but, it seems, his Measures were not agreeable to thofe his Mafter

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