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discussion. The missionaries le Loutre and de I'lsle Dieu furnished 

 the information which here follows for the use of the French Com- 

 missioners: 



"It is very easy to maintain communication with Quebec, winter 

 and summer, by the River St. John, and the route is convenient for 

 detachments of troops needed either for attack or defence. The 

 stations along the route from Quebec to Beauséjour, at the head of 

 the Bay of Fundy, are as follows: 



From Quebec to ri\ière du Loup. 



From rivière du Loup by a portage of 18 leagues to Lake Témis- 

 couata. 



From Lake Témiscouata to Madoechka. 



From Madoechka to the Grand Falls. 



From the Grand Falls to Medoctek. 



From Medocktek to Ecouba (Ekpahawk), post of the Indians 

 of the missionary. Father Germain. 



From Ecouba to Jemsec. 



From Jemsec — leaving the River St. John and traversing Washa- 

 demoak Lake, ascending by the river of the same name, thence by a 

 portage of 6 leagues to the River Petkoudiak. 



From Petkoudiak to Memeramcouk and by a portage of 3 

 leagues to Nechkak (Westcock). 



From Nechkak to Beauséjour. 



"By this route troops commanded by the Sieurs Marin and 

 Montesson arrived at Beauséjour in less than a month from the time 

 of their departure from Quebec, the distance being about 500 miles." 



Early in 1745 the Sieur Marin appeared before the town of 

 Port Royal (then in possession of the English) with a party of 600 

 French and Indians — among the latter were many from the River 

 St. John and some Hurons from Canada. They captured two Boston 

 schooners, one of which, the "Montague," had as master, WilHam 

 Pote, of Falmouth, Maine. Captain Pote and some others were 

 taken by the Huron Indians to Quebec, where Pote remained three 

 years a prisoner. During his captivity he contrived to keep a journal 

 in which he records his capture and subsequent adventures. The 

 journal was concealed by one of the female prisoners and afterwards 

 restored to the captain. It passed through many hands and was 

 discovered at Geneva, in Switzerland, in 1890, and published a few 

 years since by Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York, in a sumptuous 

 edition. Pote's narrative is exceedingly interesting, but our references 

 to it must necessarily be brief. 



