104 LA BARRE AND THE IROQUOIS. [1684. 



nakis and Algon quins from Sillery, Hurons from 

 Lorette, and converted Iroquois from the Jesuit 

 mission of Saut St. Louis, near Montreal. The 

 camp of the French was on a low, clamp plain near 

 the fort ; and here a malarious fever presently 

 attacked them, killing many and disabling many 

 more. La Hon tan says that La Barre himself was 

 brought by it to the brink of the grave. If he had 

 ever entertained any other purpose than that of 

 inducing the Senecas to agree to a temporary 

 peace, he now completely abandoned it. He dared 

 not even insist that the offending tribe should meet 

 him in council, but hastened to ask the mediation 

 of the Ononclagas, which the letters of Lamberville 

 had assured him that they were disposed to offer. 

 He sent Le Moyne to persuade them to meet him 

 on their own side of the lake, and, with such of his 

 men as were able to move, crossed to the mouth 

 of Salmon River, then called La Famine. 



The name proved prophetic. Provisions fell 

 short from bad management in transportation, and 

 the men grew hungry and discontented. Septem- 

 ber had begun ; the place was unwholesome, and 

 the malarious fever of Fort Frontenac infected the 

 new encampment. The soldiers sickened rapidly. 

 La Barre, racked with suspense, waited impatiently 

 the return of Le Moyne. We have seen already 

 the result of his mission, and how he and Lamber- 

 ville, in spite of the envoy of the English governor, 

 gained from the Onondaga chiefs the promise to 

 meet Onontio in council. Le Moyne appeared at 

 La Famine on the third of the month, bringing 



