﻿17° 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  men 
  joined 
  Champlain. 
  Brule 
  was 
  sent 
  with 
  some 
  Hurons 
  to 
  

   notify 
  a 
  tribe 
  of 
  the 
  Andastes, 
  living 
  on 
  the 
  Chemung 
  river 
  

   where 
  it 
  crosses 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  line, 
  who 
  wished 
  to 
  join 
  in 
  the 
  

   attack 
  with 
  500 
  men. 
  To 
  do 
  this, 
  he 
  had 
  to 
  take 
  a 
  long 
  and 
  cir- 
  

   cuitous 
  route, 
  and 
  did 
  not 
  arrive 
  in 
  time. 
  

  

  The 
  Hurons, 
  with 
  Champlain 
  and 
  his 
  nine 
  men, 
  crossed 
  the 
  

   country 
  to 
  the 
  River 
  Trent, 
  where 
  they 
  found 
  fields 
  abandoned 
  

   because 
  of 
  the 
  war. 
  Near 
  the 
  eastern 
  end 
  of 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  they 
  

   crossed 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  two 
  possible 
  routes. 
  The 
  place 
  where 
  they 
  

   left 
  the 
  lake 
  is 
  affected 
  by 
  this, 
  but 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  discussed 
  now. 
  

   That 
  the 
  route 
  crossed 
  the 
  outlet 
  of 
  Oneida 
  lake 
  is 
  certain, 
  and 
  

   repeated 
  examinations 
  strengthen 
  the 
  claim 
  that 
  it 
  then 
  turned 
  

   southeast, 
  terminating 
  at 
  Nichols' 
  pond 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Fenner. 
  

   This 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Oneida 
  territory, 
  and 
  the 
  local 
  and 
  archeologic 
  

   features 
  are 
  satisfactory. 
  On 
  the 
  site 
  is 
  a 
  boulder 
  15 
  feet 
  long, 
  

   which 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  Oneida 
  stone 
  of 
  that 
  day, 
  giving 
  it 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  the 
  stone, 
  or 
  rather 
  continuing 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  

   town 
  last 
  occupied. 
  

  

  The 
  stockade 
  was 
  made 
  of 
  four 
  rows 
  of 
  palisades, 
  crossing 
  at 
  

   the 
  top 
  and 
  affording 
  broad 
  though 
  rude 
  battlements, 
  reached 
  

   by 
  simple 
  ladders. 
  It 
  extended 
  some 
  distance 
  into 
  the 
  very 
  shal- 
  

   low 
  pond, 
  thus 
  securing 
  a 
  supply 
  of 
  water 
  which 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  

   cut 
  off 
  and 
  which 
  readily 
  extinguished 
  every 
  fire. 
  The 
  bark 
  

   gutters 
  for 
  domestic 
  use 
  became 
  a 
  means 
  of 
  saving 
  the 
  town 
  

   from 
  the 
  enemy. 
  Here 
  Champlain 
  encamped 
  Oct. 
  10, 
  remaining 
  

   till 
  the 
  16th. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  still 
  feared 
  firearms, 
  but 
  less 
  than 
  

   at 
  first, 
  and, 
  as 
  they 
  retreated, 
  told 
  the 
  French 
  " 
  not 
  to 
  meddle 
  in 
  

   their 
  fights." 
  Champlain 
  made 
  a 
  movable 
  tower, 
  and 
  200 
  men 
  

   placed 
  it 
  near 
  the 
  wall. 
  The 
  Arquebuses 
  drove 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   from 
  the 
  gallery, 
  but 
  the 
  untrained 
  Indians 
  took 
  no 
  advantage 
  

   of 
  this, 
  and 
  all 
  efforts 
  to 
  burn 
  the 
  town 
  failed. 
  Champlain 
  was 
  

   wounded 
  and 
  the 
  Hurons 
  discouraged. 
  Nothing 
  was 
  accom- 
  

   plished, 
  but 
  they 
  agreed 
  to 
  wait 
  four 
  days 
  for 
  their 
  allies. 
  Some 
  

   skirmishes 
  followed, 
  the 
  French 
  saving 
  the 
  Hurons 
  in 
  each. 
  The 
  

   500 
  men 
  not 
  coming 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  agreed, 
  they 
  made 
  litters 
  for 
  the 
  

   wounded 
  and 
  decamped. 
  Champlain 
  was 
  carried 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  

  

  