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

settlement, and he carried it in less than four years to the most desirable perfection, despite of the

contradictions that he had to combat against; the obstacles he had to surmount; the jibes and unbecoming jokes which he was obliged to bear ; but his happiness and glory suffered nothing therefrom. People saw with astonishment several villages start up almost at once ; a convenient, habitable and pleasantly situated fort ; vast clearances covered almost at the same time with the finest maize.

More

than five hundred families, still all infidels, who congregated there, soon rendered this settlement the

most beautiful, the most charming and the most abundant of the Colony.

Depending on it were La

Presentation, La Galette, Suegatzi, L'isle au Galop, and L'isle Picquet in the River St. Lawrence. There were in the Fort, seven small stone guns and eleven four to six pounders.

The most distinguished of the Iroquois families were distributed at La Presentation in three vilthat which adjoined the French fort contained, in 1754, forty-nine bark cabins some of which were from sixty to eighty feet long and accommodated three to four families. The place pleased them on account of the abundance of hunting and fishing. This Mission could no doubt be increased,