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1656-58] JOURNAL DES PP. /^SUITES 89
The blood of my brothers cries out very loud.
If I be not soon appeased, I will give satisfac-
tion to their souls. It is Ondesonk whom I
wished to see ; he does not appear. His writ-
ing that thou bearest is so old that I no longer
it. . . . askest that the
recognize Thou
hatchets and kettles be restored to thy people ;
hast thou brought back the things that thou
didst pillage in the french houses 2 years
ago?" etc. ''There is but one word: make
war or Peace, and be no longer treacherous.
The frenchman
resolved on war.
fears nothing when he is
'' Thou askest the Algonquain and the
huron what each has in his heart. Thy
brother the Onontaeronon betrayed the huron,
who had given himself to him; and, as to
thee, thou didst and dost now come to break
the head of the Algonquain. Both one and
the other suffer me to save thy life; it is
because they obey me. The collar that thou
gavest them in making that request would
have been used by them to strangle thee, did
me. ' '
they not respect
1 . 5 The same Agneerronons, when ready
to depart, received 3 presents from Onontio.
I St: ''I speak to thee for the last time. Thy
deserve that I should
treachery and perfidy
drive thee away, and trample on thy gifts.
Go and tell thy Elders that thy people are
coming, and that the purpose of the irons which
thou sawest on their feet is to give them sense,
and not to make them die ; for I do as much
to my true brothers, the Algonquains and