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to make a new alliance with them.

The deputies of all the Iroquois Nations went to Orange, where he congratulated them greatly on the success they had had a short time before, at a place named La Chine.

He exhorted them anew, and with many arguments, to make war.

He added, "he would give up to them Fort Frontenac of which they might easily become the masters, since that garrison there was starving and if the Iroquois army only arrived there after the French had abandoned the Fort, they would not