﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  1 
  83 
  

  

  severing 
  their 
  hostility, 
  that 
  they 
  sought 
  out 
  and 
  destroyed 
  an 
  

   Algonquin 
  camp 
  in 
  a 
  remote 
  northern 
  wilderness, 
  in 
  the 
  depth 
  

   of 
  winter, 
  treating 
  their 
  prisoners 
  with 
  horrible 
  cruelty. 
  A 
  Huron 
  

   village 
  was 
  also 
  destroyed 
  that 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  site 
  of 
  Montreal 
  was 
  selected 
  in 
  1641, 
  near 
  the 
  spot 
  

   where 
  Hochelaga 
  had 
  stood 
  a 
  century 
  before. 
  The 
  Relation 
  of 
  

   1646 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  This 
  island 
  is 
  in 
  some 
  fashion 
  the 
  frontier 
  of 
  the 
  

   Annierronnons 
  Iroquois." 
  Governor 
  Montmagny 
  and 
  Sieur 
  Mai- 
  

   son-neuve 
  went 
  there 
  May 
  17, 
  1642, 
  to 
  take 
  possession 
  of 
  the 
  

   island 
  and 
  commence 
  the 
  first 
  buildings 
  with 
  solemn 
  religious 
  

   services 
  and 
  a 
  feast. 
  Two 
  Indians 
  present 
  stood 
  on 
  the 
  moun- 
  

   tain 
  top, 
  as 
  before 
  mentioned, 
  where 
  their 
  ancestors 
  had 
  lived. 
  

   The 
  grandsire 
  of 
  one 
  had 
  cultivated 
  the 
  land 
  on 
  which 
  they 
  stood. 
  

   They 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  Hurons, 
  who 
  were 
  then 
  our 
  neighbors, 
  chased 
  

   our 
  ancestors 
  from 
  this 
  country 
  ; 
  some 
  retired 
  toward 
  the 
  land 
  

   of 
  the 
  Abnaquiois, 
  the 
  others 
  to 
  the 
  land 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  one 
  

   part 
  turned 
  to 
  the 
  Hurons 
  themselves, 
  united 
  with 
  them, 
  and 
  

   behold 
  the 
  island 
  was 
  rendered 
  almost 
  a 
  desert." 
  This 
  has 
  been 
  

   variously 
  explained. 
  Mr 
  Shea 
  proposed 
  interchanging 
  Hurons 
  

   and 
  Iroquois, 
  making 
  the 
  latter 
  the 
  aggressors, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  no 
  real 
  

   improvement. 
  It 
  is 
  rather 
  probable 
  that, 
  after 
  the 
  withdrawal 
  

   of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  to 
  New 
  York, 
  the 
  Hurons 
  did 
  attack 
  the 
  Algon- 
  

   quins 
  who 
  had 
  dwelt 
  by 
  them/and 
  who 
  remained 
  behind. 
  Tra- 
  

   ditionally 
  the 
  Hurons 
  did 
  receive 
  a 
  new 
  nation 
  about 
  that 
  time, 
  

   and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  always 
  welcomed 
  accessions 
  to 
  their 
  numbers. 
  

   Among 
  these 
  Algonquins 
  who 
  went 
  to 
  their 
  land, 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  

   many 
  old 
  friends. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  in 
  1641 
  that 
  Governor 
  Montmagny 
  was 
  called 
  from 
  his 
  

   name, 
  Onontio, 
  or 
  Great 
  Mountain, 
  afterward 
  the 
  title 
  of 
  Can- 
  

   adian 
  governors. 
  In 
  1642 
  he 
  commenced 
  forts 
  on 
  the 
  Sorel, 
  or 
  

   River 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  to 
  check 
  their 
  war 
  parties, 
  which 
  seemed 
  

   everywhere 
  and 
  were 
  well 
  supplied 
  with 
  guns 
  by 
  the 
  Dutch. 
  

   Charlevoix 
  said 
  that 
  Montmagny 
  complained 
  of 
  this 
  to 
  the 
  Dutch 
  

   governor, 
  who 
  replied 
  in 
  a 
  courteous 
  but 
  vague 
  way. 
  In 
  this 
  

   year 
  Father 
  Isaac 
  Jogues 
  was 
  taken 
  by 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  with 
  two 
  

   French 
  companions, 
  while 
  on 
  the 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  with 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  

  

  