[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The conference opened on the 24th when, " each nation seated on the ground by themselves," Go vernor Hunter thanked them for their response to the queen's com mands, and informed them that they would be expected to join General Nicholson in the expedition against Canada, which had been organized.1 This expedition had already sailed from Boston, with seven veteran regiments, and was to be met by the colonial forces of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with their Indian allies, under the walls of Quebec.2 Roasted oxen, barrels of beer, the firing of cannon, and some " private presents" to the proper chiefs, completed the work, and all pro fessed their readiness to march at the queen's command. The French were not idle spectators of these preparations, and in their efforts to defeat them brought out in strong colors the power and influence which they had established over their Indian allies through their priests. A great war festival was held at Montreal, and the war song chanted by seven or eight hundred warriors, many of whom were the flower of the Iro-quois and Mahican nations, whom the priests had drawn thither. chiefs among the Delawares, but is not chems of ye Five Nations and river In-sustained by the record. The Canajo-dians, particularly those lately come from harie chief, whose name is not given, Great Britain, waited upon His Excel-died in England soon after his arrival, lency, Gov. Hunter," &c. — Colonial The first conference after their return History, v, 217.