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A month later L,a Salle himself visited theSenecas, approach- 

 ing- them from Irondequoit as Galinee had done. He spent his 

 time in the village of "Tagarondies" (*1.) 



Preliminary to the punitive expedition directed by M. De la 

 Barre, Governor of New France against the Iroquois in 1682, the 

 Sieur D'Orvilliers reconnoitered the Seneca country and the gov- 

 ernor stated (*2) that he had made a "faithful and exact plan" of 

 their two principal villages. Of this no copy is available. 





From Map in Hennepin's Louisianne, Nuremburg, 1687. 

 Marshall Library, Buffalo Historical Society. 



An official enumeration of the villages was made in great 

 detail by the Marquis de Denonville, who had succeeded De la 

 Barre in 1685 as Governor of Canada, and who, in 1687 invaded the 

 territory of the Senecas at the head of the most formidable puni- 

 tive expedition ever sent by the French against the Iroquois. In 

 his report he named the villages which had been destroyed by his 

 force. He entered the country from Irondequoit and first reached 

 "Gannagora," whence he sent an expedition to surround and 

 capture a small fort nearby. Thence he marched to "Gannon- 

 garae, Totiakto and Gannondata," all of which he destroyed. In 

 his report he identifies the Jesuit mission stations when he ex- 



*l Margry, Vol. 1, 127, quoted by Marshall. 

 *2 Doc. Hist. New York, p. in. 



