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lesse wearc killed .... They killed one of our men .... 

 They retired themselves into the fort, and brought the rest of their 

 men in hopes to save it. In this they weare far mistaken, for wo 

 furiously gave an assault, not sparing time to make- us bucklers, and 

 made use of nothing else but of castors tied together .... but 

 to overcome them the sooner, we filled a barill full of gun powder, and 

 having stoped the whole of it well and tied it to the end of a long 

 pole, being att the foot of the fort. Here we lost 3 of our men; our 

 machine did play with an execution, I ma)^ well say that the ennemy 

 never had seen the like .... Now there falls a showre of raine 

 and a terrible storm, that to my thinking there was something extra- 

 ordinary, that the Devill himselfe made that storm to give those men 



leave to escape We found 11 of our ennemy slained and 



2 onely of ours, besides seaven weare wounded .... Many liked 

 the occupation, for they filled their hellyes with the flesh of their 

 ennemyes. We boiled some of it, and kettles full of the rest .... 

 The greatest marke of our victory was that we had 10 heads and foure 

 prisoners .... The next day we perceived seven boats of the 

 Iroquoits .... they began in all haste to make a fort .... 

 The night no sooner approached but we eml^arqued ourselves without 

 any noise, and went along.^'' It's trange to me that the ennemy did 

 not encounter us ... . We rowed from friday to tuesday without 

 intermission .... On the tbird day the paines and labour we 

 tooke forced us to an intermission, ffor we weare quite spent. After 

 this we went on without any encounter whatsoever, having escaped very 

 narrowly. We passed a sault that falls from a vast height. Some of 

 our wildmen went underneath ^'^ it, which I have seen, and I myselfe 

 had the curiosity, but that quiver makes a man the surer. The watter 

 inins over the heads with such impetuosity and violence that it's incredi- 

 ble. We went under this torrent a quarter of a mile, that falls from 

 the toppe above fourty foot downwards. 



" Having come to the lake of the Castors . . . ^^ some went 

 a hunting, some a fishing. This done, we wfnt downe the river of 

 the sorcerers,^'' which brought us to the first great lake. ^Yhat joy had 

 we to see ourselves out of that river so dangerous, after we \\Tought two 

 and twenty dayes ^° and as many nights, having not slept one hour on 

 land all the while .... Our equipage and we weare ready to 

 wander uppon that sweet sea; but most of that coast ^^ is void of wild 

 beasts, so there was great famine amongst us for want .... After- 

 wards we entered into a straight "^ which had 10 leagues in length, 

 full of islands, where we wanted not fish. We came after to a rapid 

 that makes the separation of the lake of the hurrons, that we calle 



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