18 The French in Prince Edward Island 
     
    
   
   
    
     as far as Cap de Rosiers in New France; and who dur- 
     
     ing nine or ten years past has devoted and usefully 
     
     employed all his efforts there, as well in the conversion 
     
     of the Indians of that country to the Christian faith 
     
     and religion, as also in the establishment of our author- 
     
     ity through all the extent of the said country, where he 
     
     has built two forts and contributed his utmost to the 
     
     support of sundry religious ecclesiastics to instruct the 
     
     children of the said Indians, and has worked at clearing 
     
     the lands where he has had several habitations built, 
     
     and would have continued this work had he not been 
     
     prevented by Charles de Menou, Sieur Daulnay Char- 
     
     nisé, who, by force of arms and without any right, had 
     
     driven him therefrom, depriving him on his own private 
     
     authority of the said forts, provisions and merchandise 
     
     without making any return therefor, and had even de- 
     
     stroyed the said habitations: Such is the result that in 
     
     order to restore the said country, and to re-establish it 
     
     in its original condition so that it may be capable of 
     
     receiving the colonies which had begun to be established 
     
     through means of the said habitations which had been 
     
     there made and established, together with the forts 
     
     which the said Charnisé has seized upon, it is necessary 
     
     to send there a man of ability, versed in the knowledge 
     
     of those parts and faithful to our service, in order to 
     
     take back the said forts or to construct others, and to 
     
     replace the said country under our dominion and the 
     
     said company in its rights granted it by the edict of its 
     
     establishment: and for the defence of the said country 
     
     to fortify and guard the said forts and those which will 
     
     be built, with a sufficient number of soldiers and other 
     
     things necessary, where it is expedient to make large 
     
     disbursements: Tio render us a service of this impor- 
     
     tance, being assured of the zeal, devotion, industry,