re a eux pour faire coup sur les Anglois. Je ne puis eviter
de consentir a ce que ces Sauvages feront puisque nous avons les
bras lies et que nous ne pouvons rien faire par nous-memes, au
surplus je ne crois pas qu'il y ait de l'inconvenient de laisser
meler les accadiens parmi les Sauvages, parceque s'ils sont pris,
nous dirons qu'ils ont agi de leur propre mouvement." _La Jonquiere
au Ministre, 1 Mai_, 1751.

_Cost of Le Loutre's Intrigues._--"J'ay deja fait payer a M.
Le Loutre depuis l'annee derniere la somme de 11183l. 18s. pour
acquitter les depenses qu'il fait journellement et je ne cesse de
luy recommander de s'en tenir aux indispensables en evitant toujours
de rien compromettre avec le gouvernement anglois." _Prevost
au Ministre, 22 Juillet, 1750_.

_Payment for English Scalps in Time of Peace._--"Les Sauvages
ont pris, il y a un mois, 18 chevelures angloises [_English scalps_,]
et M. Le Loutre a ete oblige de les payer 1800 l., argent de
l'Acadie, dont je luy ay fait le remboursement." _Ibid., 16 Aout,
1753_.

Many pages might be filled with extracts like the above. These,
with most of the other French documents used in Chapter 4, are
taken from the Archives de la Marine et des Colonies.

Appendix C

Chapter 5. Washington

_Washington and the Capitulation at Fort Necessity_.--Villiers,
in his Journal, boasts that he made Washington sign a virtual
admission that he had assassinated Jumonville. In regard to this
point, a letter, of which the following is an extract, is printed in
the provincial papers of the time. It is from Captain Adam
Stephen, an officer in the action, writing to a friend five weeks
after.

"When Mr. Vanbraam returned with the French proposals, we
were obliged to take the sense of them from his mouth; it rained
so heavy that he could not give us a written translation of them;
we could scarcely keep the candle lighted to read them by; they
were written in a bad hand, on wet and blotted paper, so that
no person could read them but Vanbraam, who had heard them
from the mouth of the French officer. Every officer there is
ready to declare that there was no such word as _assassination_
mentioned. The terms expressed were, _the death of Jumonville_. If
it had been mentioned we would by all means have had it altered,
as the French, during the course of the interview, seemed very
condescending, and desirous to bring things to an issue." He then
gives several other points in which V