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I walked j^ravely between two rows of people, who give me a 

 thousand benedictions, and who load me with all kinds of fruits, 

 with pumpkins, with mulberries, with breads, with strawberries 

 and others. I kept making my cry of Ambassador while walk- 

 ing, and seeing myself near the town, which was scarcely visible 

 to me, the stakes, the cabins and the trees were so covered with 

 people. I stopped before taking the first step in entering the town. 



He found that the captives had been treated Avith much kind- 

 ness, and that Garakontie' had secured them every religious privi- 

 lege possible. A bell called them to public worship, which was 

 led by one of their best men. Lay baptism was practised and 

 much religious instruction given. Le Moyne spent nearly a 

 year there and elsewhere, returning Aug. 31, 1662, with the 

 remaining captives, and there was great joy in Montreal. 



Mr Shea said that Garakontie', Sun that Advances, " was 

 apparently an orator, not a sachem, and not a war chief. He is 

 not mentioned in connection with the settlement of St Mary of 

 Ganentaha.by any of the writers of that time, and it is abso- 

 lutely contrary to all authority to make him the projector of 

 that movement." One little circumstance should have shown 

 this eminent writer the error into which he was led by the use of 

 Garakontie"s official title for his personal name. When Le 

 Moyne drew near Onondaga in 1654, he said he dined with '' the 

 nephew of the first captain of the country, who is to lodge me in 

 his cabin." In 1661 he said, '' We met a captain named Gara- 

 contie', who is the one with whom our fathers and I have taken 

 lodging every time we have come into this country." In 1670 

 he was distinctly called Sagochiendagete', and in 1654 it was 

 Sagochiendagehte', an Onondaga chief, who remained as a hos- 

 tage at Montreal. In 1657 it was " Sagochiendagesite' who has 

 the power and royal authority over all the nation of Onontaghe, 

 though he has not the name of it." In an address toward the 

 close of his life, the chief spoke of his authority, and of the use 

 he had always made of it for the public good. A letter from 

 Onondaga in 1671 speaks of him as '' the most considerable, and 

 the chief of all the Iroquois nations." 



Another possible error of Mr Shea's may be noted here, as it 



