THE DISCOVERY OF BURLINGTON BAY. 45 



Iroquois and French, which had just then happily terminated. The 

 execution of the guilty soldiers propitiated the offended Iroquois. 

 All fear of reprisals being allayed, the party started on the 6th day 

 of July — La Salle with fifteen men in four canoes, and de Casson 

 and Galinee with seven men in three canoes. They ascended the 

 St. Lawrence, threading the intricate channels of the Thousand 

 Islands, carrying their canoes and effects around the numerous and 

 difficult portages they met by the way, and at length after twenty- 

 seven days of incessant toil, in which they suffered severely from 

 sickness and exposure, they reached the broad expanse of Lake 

 Ontario. Coasting along its southern shore they landed on the ioth 

 of August at the mouth of Irondequoit bay, four miles east of Gen- 

 esee river, their intention being to procure a guide from the Indian 

 town of Gannagaro, on what is now known as Broughton Hill, just 

 south of Victor station, on the New York Central railway, and mid- 

 way between Rochester and Canandaigua. 



In the translation of the journal of Galinee, which follows, the 

 original has been adhered to as closely as the obscure and anti- 

 quated French in which it is written would admit. 



EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF GALINEE. 



"After 35 days of very difficult navigation we arrived at a small 

 river called by the Indians Karontagonat (the Iroquois name for 

 Irondequoit Bay), which is the nearest point on the lake to Sonan- 

 touan, and about one hundred leagues southwest of Montreal. I 

 took the latitude of this place on the 26th of August, 1669, with my 

 jacobstaff. As I had a very fine horizon on the north, no land but 

 the open lake being visible in that direction, I took the altitude on 

 that side as being the least liable to error. 



" We had no sooner arrived at this place than we were visited by 

 a number of Indians, who came to make us small presents of Indian 

 corn, pumpkins, blackberries and whortleberries, fruits of which they 

 had abundance. We made presents in return of knives, awls, needles, 

 glass beads, and other articles which they prize, and with which we 

 were well provided. 



" Our guides urged us to remain in this place till the next day, 

 as the chiefs would not fail to come in the evening with provisions to 

 escort us to the village. In fact, night had no sooner came than a 



