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go in company with those of Pentagouet, declaring to them that he had been sent from France to put himself at their head and make war upon the English.

They put off until the next day the giving of their reply, and held a council to deliberate as to what they should do. They reached no conclusion, but on the morrow they assembled, and, after having taken their resolution, replied that they had never entered into the parleys which their brethren had held with the English, and that they only awaited an opportunity to make war upon them; that their weakness had prevented them from continuing it; that they were ready to join forces with him and would not leave him until they had broken many heads. He testified to them the joy he had in seeing them in that disposition, and made a feast, at which he assured the savages that he would inform Monsieur le Comte of their good will.

On the fifth of May he left Medauktek, and arrived on the ninth at Fort Madaoumkik,^[1] where he found Taxous, one of the great chiefs of those savages, to whom he told the motive of his journey; and, having engaged him to descend to the village of Panaoumkik,^[2] where the largest part of the savages of that river live, they arrived together on the tenth, at midnight. They found there Father Bigot, a Jesuit missionary, accompanied by three savages, of whom one announced himself as sent from the Kanibats^[3] to tell the old men of that village that the Kanibats intended to make war upon the English.

On the eleventh this envoy spoke at a feast where was Sieur de Yillieu, who told also the object of his journey and the reasons which ought to persuade them to break off the parleys which they had had with the Governor of Boston, who sought only to entrap them. He