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and France were struggling against one another in an obstinate war, a war which had given a sad beginning to hostilities between the colonies of the two powers. As being as much a religious war as political, the person of the missionary captive became an object of suspicion to the English, and their efforts to put an end to his captivity, in order to get him out of the hands of the Onneidas, had been thwarted by his friends.

Of his operations during his journeyings