The warriors who escaped fled across the Mississippi to seek an asylum among the loways who then seem to have occupied what is now eastern Iowa.

12 Scarcely had the French reestablished themselves in the Wisconsin and Minnesota country, however, when a small incident again blasted their hopes of future tranquillity.

After their defeat the Fox fugitive warriors gradually col- lected their enslaved women and children together, and during this revival of their tribal life, they were again attacked by other nations with the approbation of French officers of the colony.

The Governor-General then ordered Sieur de Villiers "to bring all the Eenards to Montreal", believing "that to send them to France with the view of distributing them among the islands [such as the French West Indies] would Be the most advantageous for the Country because here [in Canada] they could always de- sert to the English.

" Furthermore, if de Villiers could not get "that Wretched Bemnant" to obey, he had orders to wipe them out.