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Excerpt from Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Vol. 64: The Original French, Latin, and Italian d104s, With English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps and Facsimles
CLXII. Pierre Milet relates, in a letter to some of his Jesuit brethren, his capture by the Onondagas in 1689, and his experiences among the Oneidas, during the succeeding two years. He is seized by the former, while on their way to commit the terrible massacre at Lachine. They present him to the Oneidas, among whom are some in?uential Christian savages, who cause his adoption into a family where the chieftainship is hereditary; he thus becomes virtually a chief of the tribe. The English are greatly displeased thereat, and make repeated efforts to induce the Oneidas to surrender Milet to them; but the savages refuse to do so, and Milet is thus able to exert among them a strong in?uence for French interests, against the English. He is allowed liberty to live as he chooses, but within the Oneida village.
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