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dayes, journeys before we should arrive where their wives weare . . . 

 My brother and I we consulted what was best to doe, and declared our 

 will to them, which was thus : ' Brethren, we resolve to stay here, 

 being not accustomed to make any can-iage on our backs as yee are 

 wont. Goe yee and look for your wives. "We will build us a fort here. 

 And seeing that you are not able to carry all your merchandizes att 

 once, we will keepe them for you, and will stay for you 14 dayes . . .' 

 The next day they went their way .... We went about to make 

 a fort of stakcs.^^ We made an ende of that fort in 2 dayes' time . . . 

 The 12th day we perceived afarr off some 50 yong men coming towards 

 us, with some of our former compagnions .... They offered to 

 carry our baggage, being come a purpose; but we had not so much 

 marchandizes as when they went from us, because we hid some of 

 them, that they might not have suspicion of us. We told them that 

 for feare of the dayly multitude of people that came to see us, for to 

 have our goods would kill us ... . There came above foure hun- 

 dred persons to see us goe away from that place ... . We marched 

 foure dayes ^^ through the woods .... Att last we came within 

 a league of the Cabbans .... neare a little lake some 8 leagues 

 in circuit .... We came to a cottage of an ancient witty man 

 . . . . of a nation called Malhonmines, that is, the nation of Oats, 

 graine that is much in that countrey .... The winter comes 

 on .... we must retire from the place to seeke our living in 

 the woods .... We appointed a rendez-vous after two months and 

 a half .... We killed several beasts as Oriniacks, staggs, etc., 

 in a word we lead a good life .... We are come to the small 

 lake, the place of rendez-vous .... We stayed 14 dayes in this 

 place most miserable .... To augmente our misery, we received 

 news of the Octauacks who weare about a hundred and fifty, with their 

 families. They had a quarell with the hurrons in the Isle where we 

 had come from some years ago before in the lake of the stairing hairs, 

 and came purposely to make warres against them the next summer 



. Having no -huntsmen, they are reduced to famine . 

 They are the coursedcst unablest, the unfamous and cowardiest people 

 that I have scene amongst fower score nations that I have frequented 

 . . . . The 2 first weeke we did eate our doggs .... The 

 wood was our food the rest of the sorrowfuU time. Finally we became 

 the very image of death .... Here are above 500 dead, men, 

 women and children .... There came 2 men from a strange 

 countrey .... Those men weare Nadoucseronons. They weare 

 much respected that nobody durst not offend them, being that we weare 

 uppon their land ^° with their leave .... some 2 moons after 



