He immediately despatched M. de Longueuil to the Iroquois and thence to Choueguen. He commanded him to induce the savages not to suffer this Establishment, and in case he could not prevail on them to oppose it openly, to persuade them to remain neuter and to suggest to them at the same time, that it is their interest to maintain us at Niagara or to consent to our building a more solid and secure house r

than the one that is here. In regard to the English he ordered M. de Longueuil, should he find them settled at Choueguen, to

summon them to withdraw from their lands until the boundaries were regulated, faffing which he should adopt proper measures to constrain them. Letter dated 10 June 1725.

M. de Longueuil writes to him (M. Begon) from Fort Frontenac the

ninth of May that there was no Trading Post as yet at Choueguen.

Mess rs de Longueuil & Begon send particulars of said Sieur de Longueuil's voyage. He found 100 English at the portage of the River, four leagues from Lake Ontario, with more than 60 canoes that they made him exhibit his passport and shewed him an order from the Governor of New York not to allow any Frenchmen to go by without a passport. M. de Longueuil took occasion to reproach the Iroquois Chiefs who were present that they were no Letter dated 31

October, 1725.

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longer masters of their lands. This succeeded they blew out against the English told them they would bear with them no longer, having permitted them to come to trade. They even promised him they should remain neuter in case of war against the English. He next repaired to Onontague, an Iroquois Village and there found the Deputies of the other four Iroquois Villages who were waiting for him there.