He animated the workmen and they laboured from three o'clock in the morning until nine at night. As for himself his disinterestedness was extreme.

He received at that time neither allowance nor presents he supported himself From the King he had but one ration of two pounds of bread and one ;

by his industry and credit.

half pound of pork, which ridges,

made the savages say, when they brought him a Buck and some Part-

"We doubt not, Father, but that there have been disagreeable expostulations in your stomach,

because you have had nothing but pork to eat.

Here's something to put your affairs in order."

The

hunters furnished him wherewithal to support the Frenchmen, and to treat the Generals occasionally. The savages brought him trout weighing as many as eighty pounds.

When the Court had granted him a pension he employed it only for the benefit for his establishAt first, he had six heads of families in 1749, eighty-seven the year following, and three

ment.

hundred and ninety-six in 1751.

All these were of the most antient and most influential families,

so that this Mission was, from that time sufficiently powerful to attach the Five Nations to us, amounting to twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and he reckoned as

many as three thousand in his Colony. them fully in our interest, we were

By attaching the Iroquois Cantons to France and establishing

certain of having nothing to fear from the other savage tribes

ambition of the English.

and thus a limit could be put to the Mr. Picquet took considerable advantage of the peace to increase that