CHAPTEE XXX. 



1649. 

 GARNIER. CHABANEL. 



The Tobacco Missions. — St. Jean attacked. — Death op Gar- 

 NiER. — The Journey op Chabanel. — His Death. — Garreau 

 AND Grelon. 



Late in the preceding autumn the Iroquois had 

 taken the war-path in force. At the end of No- 

 vember, two escaped prisoners came to Isle St. 

 Joseph with the news that a band of three hundred 

 warriors was hovering in the Huron forests, doubt- 

 ful whether to invade the island or to attack the 

 towns of the Tobacco Nation in the valleys of the 

 Blue Mountains. The Father Superior, Eague- 

 neau, sent a runner thither in all haste, to warn 

 the inhabitants of their danger. 



There were at this time two missions in thy 

 Tobacco Nation, St. Jean and St. Matthias,^ — 

 the latter under the charge of the Jesuits Garreau 

 and Grelon, and the former under that of Garnier 

 and Chabanel. St. Jean, the principal seat of the 



1 The Indian name of St. Jean was Etarita ; and that of St. Matthias^ 

 Ekarenniondi. 



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