[31] Weeden, I., 126.
[32] New York Colonial Documents, I., 181, 389, §7.
[33] Ibid. 182; Collection de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouvelle-France, I., 254; Radisson, 93.
[34] Parkman, Jesuits in North America; Radisson; Margry, Découvertes et Établissemens, etc., IV., 586-598; Tailhan, Nicholas Perrot.
[35] Morgan, League of the Iroquois.
[36] N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 408-9; V., 687, 726; Histoire et Commerce des Colonies Angloises, 154.
[37] N.Y. Col. Docs., III., 471, 474; IX., 298, 319.
[38] Ibid. IX., 57. The same proposal was made in 1681 by Du Chesneau, ibid. IX., 165.
[39] Parkman's works; N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 165; Shea's Charlevoix, IV., 16: "The English, indeed, as already remarked, from that time shared with the French in the fur trade; and this was the chief motive of their fomenting war between us and the Iroquois, inasmuch as they could get no good furs, which come from the northern districts, except by means of these Indians, who could scarcely effect a reconciliation with us without precluding them from this precious mine."
[40] Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, I., 50.