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ing some to Quebec. Through an error in quotation a knowledge 

 of this by the French has been placed lo years earlier. The 

 Kirkpatrick fountain, near the spot, will commemorate this event. 



Le Moyne was now on new waters and his passage down the 

 Oswego river the earliest recorded by a white man, Champlain 

 not having reached that stream, and Le Moyne not having landed 

 at Oswego, as many have supposed. Lake Ontario was now 

 called the Lake of the Iroquois, and the missionary followed its 

 shore to Salmon river, arriving there Aug. 23. He said : " We 

 arrive at the place which they destine for our house, and a French 

 settlement. There are charming prairies, good fishing, an access 

 for all nations." 



From his journal the rest of the way seems uneventful, but 

 Charlevoix said he suppressed one important particular, lest it 

 should lead to trouble. He said that Le Moyne had with him two 

 Onondagas, some Hurons and Algonquins, who were surrounded 

 by Mohawk canoes, when near ^Montreal, and fired on. The Hu- 

 rons, Algonquins and one Onondaga, were killed and Le Moyne- 

 made a prisoner. The surviving Onondaga was told he might 

 go home, but he refused to abandon his charge and threatened 

 the Mohawks with the wrath of the 'upper Iroquois. They 

 relented, and the Onondaga took Le IMoyne to Montreal. Mother 

 Mary of the Incarnation said the Mohawks threw the blame on 

 the Dutch Bastard. The story is in every way improbable, the 

 Onondagas Avould not have passed over such an afifront lightly, 

 nor would Le Moyne have visited the Mohawks the following 

 year. 



One interesting feature of this visit to Onondaga was the 

 recovery of Brebeuf's New Testament and Garnier's book of 

 devotions, showing that the Onondagas were active in the Huron 

 tragedy. They also had Huron, Neutral and Petun captives. 



The Erie war increased the demand for arms and ammunition ; 

 and, lest the Iroquois should get these of the English, the Dutch 

 ordered Rutger Johnson to furnish them sparingly and secretly. 

 The Fries were called Rique' by the Iroquois and Friee' by the 

 Hurons, not as pronounced by us. Their exact location is uncer- 

 tain ; but, as the Onondagas carried their canoes to their towns, 



