Lake Champlain, 4t 



their food is filli, without bread or any 

 oiher meat; and another feafon, they eat 

 nothing but rtags, roes, beavers, &c. 

 which they (hoot in the woods, and rivers. 

 They, however, eijoy long hfe, perfe<ft 

 health, and are more able to undergo hard- 

 Ibips than other people. They fing and 

 dance, are joyful, and always content ; 

 and would not, for a great deal, exchange 

 their manner of life for that which is pre- 

 ferred in Europe. 



When we were yet ten French miles 

 from fort St. ^ohuy we faw fome houfes 

 on the weflern fide of the lake, in which 

 the French had lived before the laft war, 

 and which they then abandoned, as it was 

 by no means iafe : they now returned to 

 them again. Thefe were the firil: houles and 

 fettlements which we faw after we had left 

 thofe about fort St. Frederic. 



There formerly was a wooden fort, 

 or redoubt, on the eaftern fide of the lake, 

 near the water-fide ; and the place where 

 it flood was fhewn me, v/hich at prefent is 

 quite overgrown with trees. The French 

 built it to prevent the incurfions o^ the 

 Indians, over this lake; and I was alfured 

 that many Frenchmen had been flain in 

 ihefe places. At the fame time they told 

 me, that they reckon lour women to one 



man 



