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Preface. Father Milet, like his confreres, the fathers Gogues, Bressani and Porcet, was taken captive by the Iroquois and conducted to the villages of this celebrated nation. His predecessors, - captured in the country of the Agnieronons, had received from the Dutch, then masters of the Hudson River, - only kindness and generous sympathy - while Father Milet, less fortunate, had been taken in a time when England