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there, and he remained during his Iroquois expedition. The fol- 

 lowing winter he visited the Petuns, or Tionontaties. He was a 

 Recollect and returned to Quebec with Champlain in 1616. 

 Father William Poulain, another Recollect, was a prisoner to 

 the Iroquois for a short time in 162 1, but was exchanged. He 

 took the opportunity of teaching some Iroquois prisoners, taken 

 by his friends, hoping some day to visit them, and made a brief 

 visit to the Hurons in 1622. In 1623 Father Nicholas Viel and 

 Le Caron, with Brother Gabriel Sagard, were there for a few 

 months, Viel remaining for nearly two years. De la Roche 

 Daillon, another Recollect, was there in 1626, going thence to the 

 Neutral nation, of whom he gave many particulars. He was 

 the companion of Father Jean de Brebeuf and of Father Anne 

 de Nouvee, the Jesuits, when they went to the Hurons that year. 

 In 1628 Brebeuf was there alone, and was ordered to Quebec in 

 1629. The English occupation hindered missionary work, but 

 linguistic studies were maintained. Brebeuf, Daniel and Davost 

 went to the Hurons in 1634. After this we have those graphic 

 and thrilling relations of missionary experience among savages, 

 which have stirred the hearts of men ever since and have yielded 

 such treasures to the student of aboriginal life. Without fol- 

 lowing this work in detail among a people lying outside our 

 borders, it seems proper to give this brief introduction to what 

 at last became an important factor in New York history. 



Daillon went to the Neutrals in October 1626, and may have 

 visited New York. He was at a village called Ounontisaston, 

 when " ten men of the last village, called Ouaroronon, one day's 

 journey from the Iroquois, their relatives and friends," called 

 and invited him there. They went ofif, but returned and plun- 

 dered him. This seems to refer to the Ouenrohronon, A Separate 

 People, rather than town, who afterward fled to the Hurons. 



With the expulsion of the Mahicans and the sale of their lands 

 the Iroquois trade had a n'ew impetus. The Dutch had learned 

 to make wampum by improved methods, having used it from the 

 first, and the Iroquois bought large quantities. They sold guns 

 at a great profit, for the Mohawks were greedy of these and 



