THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Macarty to Vaudreuil
(September 6, 1752)
Macarty in: Huntington Library
Mss., Loudoun Coll., 378 and
in Pease and Jenison,
French Series, III,
pp. 700-706.
p. 704.
I have reported to you at length what I have learned on this side and that, so that you may judge of the tribes' situation and our own. I believe the quiet we have enjoyed up to now from the Miamis proceeds only from their weakness, and that when they want to undertake something they really count on the Illinois as a result of the affair of December 8 in which they were engaged almost against their will, the Frenchman having been the first to kill. It is true they had ill intentions, but I do not think that is generally the case. This attack is the cause of the treacherous attacks which were made by the Chickasaw. The Miamis do not speak of this attack which would since have become known. The course M. de Longueuil takes of sending French to the Miamis and to the Ohio River is the surest way to finish this way. I have not yet received letter from him. I will send you your letters as soon as I receive them. I have had the honor of replying to all the heads of your letters in my joint or separate ones.
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