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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Hurons, 
  traveling 
  in 
  12 
  canoes. 
  The 
  French 
  might 
  have 
  escaped, 
  

   but 
  Jogues 
  would 
  not 
  leave 
  his 
  Huron 
  friends, 
  nor 
  would 
  his 
  

   French 
  comrades 
  desert 
  him. 
  In 
  hastening 
  to 
  his 
  aid 
  William 
  

   Couture 
  killed 
  a 
  great 
  Indian 
  chief. 
  They 
  were 
  carried 
  

   to 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  towns, 
  suffering 
  greatly 
  there 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

   way. 
  

  

  The 
  same 
  year 
  11 
  Huron 
  canoes 
  were 
  coming 
  down 
  to 
  Three 
  

   Rivers 
  with 
  furs, 
  when 
  they 
  were 
  attacked 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  011 
  

   the 
  Ottawa 
  river, 
  150 
  miles 
  above 
  Montreal. 
  While 
  building 
  

   their 
  new 
  fort 
  on 
  the 
  River 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  the 
  French 
  were 
  sud- 
  

   denly 
  assailed 
  by 
  300 
  of 
  that 
  people, 
  and 
  were 
  in 
  great 
  danger 
  of 
  

   being 
  cut 
  to 
  pieces. 
  Recovering 
  from 
  their 
  surprise, 
  they 
  

   repulsed 
  the 
  attack, 
  but 
  the 
  enemy 
  retreated 
  in 
  good 
  order. 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  held 
  the 
  St 
  Lawrence 
  and 
  w 
  r 
  aylaid 
  parties 
  

   on 
  the 
  Ottawa, 
  other 
  bands 
  were 
  active 
  in 
  the 
  Huron 
  country 
  

   all 
  the 
  time, 
  but 
  with 
  some 
  reverses. 
  The 
  bold 
  Huron 
  chief, 
  

   Ahatsisteari, 
  not 
  only 
  overcame 
  a 
  party 
  larger 
  than 
  his 
  own, 
  but 
  

   afterward 
  attacked 
  and 
  destroyed 
  a 
  fleet 
  of 
  great 
  Iroquois 
  canoes 
  

   by 
  his 
  own 
  skill 
  and 
  daring. 
  Some 
  he 
  overturned, 
  killing 
  or 
  

   capturing 
  their 
  crews 
  in 
  the 
  water. 
  

  

  That 
  year 
  Van 
  Curler 
  again 
  visited 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  towns, 
  

   where 
  he 
  saw 
  Jogues 
  and 
  his 
  two 
  companions. 
  His 
  account 
  of 
  

   their 
  fears 
  differs 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Relations. 
  He 
  wrote 
  also 
  as 
  

   though 
  there 
  were 
  then 
  no 
  treaty 
  between 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  

   Dutch, 
  though 
  good 
  friends. 
  He 
  said, 
  " 
  I 
  brought 
  presents 
  

   there 
  and 
  asked 
  that 
  we 
  should 
  live 
  as 
  good 
  neighbors, 
  and 
  that 
  

   they 
  should 
  do 
  no 
  harm 
  to 
  either 
  the 
  colonists 
  or 
  their 
  

   cattle." 
  

  

  Rene 
  Goupil 
  was 
  killed 
  soon 
  after 
  among 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  and 
  

   the 
  other 
  captives 
  suffered 
  much. 
  Jogues 
  escaped 
  in 
  1643 
  by 
  

   the 
  aid 
  of 
  the 
  Dutch, 
  and 
  went 
  to 
  Europe 
  for 
  a 
  while. 
  That 
  

   spring 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  went 
  to 
  collect 
  tribute 
  toward 
  the 
  seashore 
  

   and 
  took 
  him 
  along 
  to 
  show 
  him 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  people. 
  This 
  

   may 
  help 
  to 
  explain 
  a 
  statement 
  in 
  early 
  Dutch 
  writers, 
  regarding 
  

   a 
  visit 
  to 
  New 
  Amsterdam 
  or 
  vicinity 
  that 
  year, 
  of 
  80 
  Mahicans 
  

   from 
  near 
  Fort 
  Orange, 
  armed 
  with 
  £funs, 
  who 
  came 
  to 
  levy 
  

  

  