Twelve Ancients; chose the most influential among the Five Nations; brought them to Mont-Real where at the hands of the Marquis Du Quesne they took the Oath of Allegiance to the King to the great astonishment of the whole Colony where no person dared to hope for such an event. In the month of June 1751, M. Picquet made a voyage around Lake Ontario with a King's Canoe and one of Bark in Avhich he had five trusty Savages, with the design of attracting some Indian families to the new settlement of La Presentation. There is a memoir, among his papers on the subject, from which it is proposed to give an extract. established a Council of

He visited Fort Frontenac or Cataracoici, situate twelve leagues west of La Presentation. found no Indians there though it was formerly the rendezvous of the Five Nations. milk, there, were bad ; they had not even brandy there to staunch a wound.

He

The bread and

Arrived at a point of

Lake Ontario called Kaoi, he found a runaway there from Virginia At the Bay of Quinte he visited the site of the antient Mission which M. Dollieres de Kleus and Abbe" D'Urfe, priests of the Saint Sulpice Seminary had established there. The quarter is beautiful but the land He visited Fort Toronto, seventy leagues from Fort Frontenac, at the West end of Lake is not good. He found good Bread and good Wine there, and every thing requisite for the trade, whilst Ontario. they were in want of these at all the other posts. He found Mississagues there who flocked around him they spoke first of the happiness their young people, the women and children would feel if the King would be as good to them as to the Iroquois for whom he procured Missionaries.