CHAPTER XVI. 



1641-1644. 

 ISAAC JOGUES. 



The Iroquois "War. — Jogues. — His Capture. — His Journey to 

 THE Mohawks. — Lake George. — The Mohawk Towns. — 

 The Missionary Tortured. — Death op Goupil. — Misery 

 of Jogues. — The Mohawk "Babylon." — Fort Orange. — 

 Escape of Jogues. — Manhattan. — The Voyage to France. 

 — Jogues among his Brethren. — He returns to Canada. 



The waters of the St. Lawrence rolled through 

 a virgin wilderness, where, in the vastness of the 

 lonely woodlands, civilized man found a precarious 

 harborage at three points only, — at Quebec, at 

 Montreal, and at Three Elvers. Here and in the 

 scattered missions was the whole of New France, 

 — a population of some three hundred souls in all. 

 And now, over these miserable settlements, rose a 

 war-cloud of frightful portent. 



It was thirty-two years since Champlain had 

 first attacked the Iroquois.^ They had nursed 

 their wrath for more than a generation, and at 

 length their hour was come. The Dutch traders 

 at Fort Orange, now Albany, had supplied them 



1 See " Pioneers of France," 318. 



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