I gathered all my troops--six persons--together, and spoke to them thus: "God has saved us to-day from the hands of our enemies, but we must be careful not to be caught in their snares to-night. For my part, I want to show you that I am not afraid. I undertake the fort for my share, with an old man of eighty, and a soldier who has never fired a gun. And you, Pierre Fontaine, with La Bonté and Galhet (our two soldiers), will go to the redoubt, with the women and children, as it is the strongest place. If I am taken, never surrender, even though I should be burnt and cut to pieces before your eyes. You have nothing to fear in the redoubt, if you only make some show of fighting." Thereupon I posted my two young brothers on two of the bastions, the _youth_ of 80 on a third bastion, and myself took charge of the fourth. Each one acted his part to the life. Despite the whistling of the north-east wind, which is a fearful wind in Canada at this season, and in spite of the snow and hail, the cry of "All's well" was heard at close intervals, echoing and re-echoing from the fort to the redoubt and from the redoubt to the fort. One would have fancied, to hear us, that the fort was crowded with warriors. And in truth the Iroquois, with all their astuteness and skill in warfare, were completely deceived, as they afterwards avowed to M. de Callières. They told him they had held a council with a view to assaulting the fort during the night, but that the increasing vigilance of the guard had prevented them from accomplishing their design, especially in view of their losses of the previous day (under the fire maintained by myself and my two brothers).... On the eighth day (for we were eight days in continual alarms, under the eyes of our enemies and exposed to their fury and savage attacks), on the eighth day, I say, M. de la Monnerie, a lieutenant detached from the force under M. de Callières, reached the fort during the night with forty men.... So soon as I saw the officer in command I saluted him, saying: "Sir, you are welcome, I surrender my arms to you." "Mademoiselle," he answered, with a courtly air, "they are in good hands." "Better than you think," I replied. He inspected the fort and found it in a most satisfactory condition, with a sentry on each bastion. I said to him: "Sir, kindly relieve my sentries, so that they may take a little rest, for we have not left our posts for the last eight days." 9. THE FRENCH CANADIANS (1737). =Source.=--A Memoir transmitted to the French Ministry, probably by Gilles Hocquart, intendant of New France: quoted in _Documents relating to the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada_, edited by W. B. Munro. Toronto, 1908.