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who committed the murder. I will not answer thy
speech at greater length. Thou dost not act like a
man ; thou keepest none of thy promises. I am well
aware that thy army has taken the field ; thou saidst
as much to the Onnontagueronnon, upon calling at
Montreal, and also to thy countrymen in custody at
Three Rivers. And yet thou thinkest to beguile me
with a collar of porcelain. The blood of my breth-
ren cries out very loud; and,
if I be not soon
appeased, I will render satisfaction to their souls.
How is it that Ondesonk does not appear here? I
asked for him and not for his writing, which is
already so old that I no longer recognize it. Thou
hast the effrontery actually [51] to dare ask the
restoration of some hatchets and rags taken from cer-
tain of thy People. Hast thou brought back the
plunder taken by thy countrymen, the things stolen
during the last two years from French houses ? Drop
thy treachery, and let us make war if thou wilt not
have peace. The Frenchman knows not what it is
to fear, when once he is determined upon war.
"
Thou askest the Algonquin and the Huron what
they have in their hearts. Thy brother, the Onnon-
tagueronnon, has slain the Hurons, and thou camest
to murder the ;
Algonquins dost thou ask them what
they have in their hearts ? They suffer me to save
thy life, because they obey me but were it not that
;
they respect me, the collar that thou gavest them
as a present would serve them as a halter wherewith
to strangle thee." An Algonquin Captain added
' '
these few words : Thou sayest that thou hast not
heard of the Frenchmen's death. Thinkest thou we
are such children as to believe that thou didst not
see their scalps, which thy People carried to their