pour chaque envoi."

A BOURLAMAQUE, A MONTREAL, 20 FEVRIER, 1757.

(_Extrait_.)

"Dimanche j'avais rassemble les dames de France hors Mad.
de Parfouru qui m'a fait l'honneur de me venir voir il y a trois jours
et en la voyant je me suis appercu que l'amour avait des traits de
puissance dont on ne pouvait pas rendre raison, non pas par l'impression
qu'elle a faite sur mon coeur, mais bien par celle qu'elle
a faite sur celui de son epoux. Mercredi une assemblee chez Mad.
Varin. Jeudi un bal chez le Chev. de Levis qui avait prie 65
Dames ou demoiselles; Il n'y en avait que trente--autant
d'hommes qu'a la guerre. Sa salle bien eclairee, aussi grand que
celle de l'Intendance, beaucoup d'ordre, beaucoup d'attention, des
rafraichissements en abondance toute la nuit de tout genre et de
toute espece et on ne se retira qu'a sept heures du matin. Pour
moi qui ay quitte le sejour de Quebec, Je me couchai de bonne
heure. J'avais eu ce jour-la huit dames a souper et ce souper etait
dedie a Mad. Varin. Demain j'en aurai une demi douzaine. Je ne
sais encore a qui il est dedie, Je suis tente de croire que c'est a La
Roche Beaucourt Le galant Chev'r. nous donne encore un bal."

Appendix F

Chapter 15. Fort William Henry

WEBB TO LOUDON, FORT EDWARD, 11 AUG. 1757.

_Public Record Office._ (_Extract._)

"On leaving the Camp Yesterday Morning they [_the English
soldiers_] were stript by the Indians of everything they had both
Officers and Men the Women and Children drag'd from among
them and most inhumanly butchered before their faces, the party
of about three hundred Men which were given them as an escort
were during this time quietly looking on, from this and other circumstances
we are too well convinced these barbarities must have been connived at by
the French. After having destroyed the women and children they fell upon
the rear of our Men who running in upon the Front soon put the whole
to a most precipitate flight in which confusion part of them came into
this Camp about two o'Clock yesterday morning in a most distressing
situation, and have continued dropping in ever since, a great many men and
we are afraid several Officers were massacred."

The above is independent of the testimony of Frye, who did
not reach Fort Edward till the day after Webb's letter was written.

FRYE TO THOMAS HUBBARD, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF MASSACHUSETTS, ALBANY, 16 AUG. 1757.

_Public Record Office._ (_Extract._)