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nations of the neighboring country, on the other part, attended. 

 To proceed with the treaty, the citizens of Rensselaerwyck pro- 

 cured a certain Indian, named Aghcrocnsc, to attend and serve 

 as interpreter, who was well known to the Christians, having 

 been much among them. 



Kiotsaeton and six other Mohawk deputies came to Montreal, 

 Feb. 22, 1646, and a council followed at Three Rivers May 7. 

 Bourdon and Jogues went to the Mohawks with presents and 

 an escort May 16. " They arrived on the eve of S. Sacrement 

 at the end of a lake which is joined to the great lake of Cham- 

 plain. The Indian name is Andiatarocte', which is to say. There 

 where the lake is shut in. The Father named it the lake of 

 S. Sacrement." Six leagues from this lake they crossed the Hud- 

 son, there called Oiogue', At the River, and soon came to a fishing 

 place named Ossarague', going thence to Fort Orange. The first 

 Mohawk village was reached June 7, and was then called Oneu- 

 gioure', formerly Osserion. Like most Indian towns it had other 

 names. 



There Jogues met some Onondagas, whose towns he never 

 reached. He made them a present, asking that the French might 

 visit their land. The Mohawks remonstrated. They were the 

 door of the confederacy and the council fire should be approached 

 through them. He held to his point, that the French might go 

 to Onondaga in any one of three ways, and gained no Mohawk 

 favor by this. 



The French stayed but two days, but Jogues left a small trunk 

 behind him, hoping to return. This caused new suspicions, as 

 they feared it might hurt them. The Mohawks hastened their 

 departure, as the other nations had parties out against the 

 Hurons and they might be molested. 



Sep. 24, 1646, Father Jogues left Three Rivers to go to the 

 Mohawks for the last time, as he himself thought. A young 

 Frenchman accompanied him, but they were at once seized, 

 stripped and threatened when they arrived at the Mohawk town. 

 Oct. 17, being told they would be killed next day but not burned. 

 The Wolf and Turtle clans tried to save them, but the Hears 

 had decreed their death. On the evening of the i8th Jogues was 



