The New Hampshire Gazette

The following Letter is taken from the London Evening Post, of Dec. 29, 1759.

Extract of a Letter from Albany, Oct. 23.

"Cayenquiliquoa and Rattlesnake Sam, two Mohawk Indians, came here yesterday. They were about 13 days ago at Oswegatchie, in Canada, on a visit to some relations who have many years settled with the French. They say they endeavoured to persuade their relations, and the other Mohawks at Oswegatchie, to leave the French in good Time, and return to their own country; telling them, 'that the English, formerly women, were now all turned into men, and were as thick all over the country as the trees in the woods. That they had taken the Ohio, Niagara, Catarqui, Ticonderoga, Louisbourg, and now lately Quebec: and that they would soon eat up the remainder of the French in Canada, and all the Indians that adhered to them.'

But the French Indians answered: 'Brethren, you are deceived; the English cannot eat up the French; their mouths are too little, their jaws too weak, and their teeth not sharp enough. Our father Onontio (that is, the Governor of Canada) has told us, and we believe him, that the English, like a Thief, have stolen Louisbourg and Quebec from the Great King, while his back was turned, and he was looking another way: but now he has turned his face, and sees what the English have done, he is going into their country with a thousand great canoes, and all his warriors; and he will take the little King, and pinch him till he makes him cry out, and give back what he has stolen, as he did about ten summers ago; and this your eyes will soon see.' The same notions and prejudices, we find, are industriously spread amongst the Six Nations: God grant nothing may happen at the peace to confirm them, for the Indians have no Idea of exchanging conquests, or of delivering up what is once taken, but from motives of fear or weakness; and they know little or nothing of what passes in other parts of the world."