we know not what shall become of us next

;

pray let the Great King know this.

Brother Cayenquiragoe

We desire that since the Great King of England &c. has Canoes of Seaventy gunns a piece and many forces, you may acquaint him that it is a great pity we should be so plagued with soe small an enemy as the French and Indians of Canida. We are not able of ourselves to destroy them.

We are become a small people and much lessened by the warr. land, Pensilvania, the Jerseys, Connecticutt

If the people of Virginia, Maryand New-England who have all put their hand to the

Covenant Chain will joyn with the inhabitants of this place we are ready to go and root out the French and all our enemyes out of Canida. He then laid down a bundle of six Beaver skins, and

on the outside thereof a draft of the river of Canida with the cliiefe places thereof marked Montreal

Troy rivier

to show the smallnesse of the enemy and how seated upon Canida river ;

which they desire

may be sent over and shown to the Great King.

Brother Cayenquiragoe.

We again thank you for the Message you have brought us from the Great King. And we pray you to send again to him for us with all vigour and speed, and to lay before the King what we have here said, faile not in writing, faile not to let the King know it. five Beavers to the man that writes, to pay for paper, penn and ink.