1646.] JOGUES REACHES THE MOHAWKS. 299 



Jogues left Three Rivers about the middle of 

 May, with the Sieur Bourdon, engineer to the 

 Governor, two Algonquins with gifts to confirm 

 the peace, and four Mohawks as guides and es- 

 cort. He passed the Richelieu and Lake Cham- 

 plain, well-remembered scenes of former miseries, 

 and reached the foot of Lake George on the eve 

 of Corpus Christi. Hence he called the lake Lac 

 St. Sacrement; and this name it preserved, until, 

 a century after, an ambitious Irishman, in compli- 

 ment to the sovereign from whom he sought 

 advancement, gave it the name it bears. ^ 



From Lake George they crossed on foot to the 

 Hudson, where, being greatly fatigued by their 

 heavy loads of gifts, they borrowed canoes at art 

 Iroquois fishing station, and descended to Fort 

 Orange. Here Jogues met the Dutch friends to 

 whom he owed his life, and who now kindly wel- 

 comed and entertained him. After a few days he 

 left them, and ascended the River Mohawk to the 

 first Mohawk town. Crowds gathered from the 

 neighboring towns to gaze on the man whom they 

 had known as a scorned and abused slave, and 

 who now appeared among them as the ambassador 

 of a power which hitherto, indeed, they had de- 

 spised, but which in their present mood they were 

 willing to propitiate. 



There was a council in one of the lodges ; and 

 while his crowded auditory smoked their pipes, 

 Jogues stood in the midst, and harangued them. 



i Mr. Shea very reasonably suggests, that a change from Lake Georae 

 to Lake Jogues would be equally easy and appropriate.- 



