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.[1]
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[2] 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
