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38 and fifty packs of peltry with which they were returning to Philadelphia. Céloron warned these Englishmen against intruding upon the territory of the French king and gave them a letter to deliver to the governor of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

On the seventh they passed a village of Loups where only three men remained—"the rest of their people had gone to Chinique, not daring to remain at home. I invited these three men to come with me to Chinique to hear what I had to say to them." Céloron tells us that they reëmbarked and proceeded on down to "Written Rock" which was inhabited by the Iroquois and governed by an old woman who is "entirely devoted to the English." All the savages had fled in alarm from the village and "there only remained six English traders, who came before me trembling I made them the same summons as to the others, and I wrote to