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ored to negotiate a peace, and he seems to have been more or less 

 successful, for a Frenchman who had been amongst the Senecas 

 brought news to Quebec that the priest was then actually on his 

 way with ambassadors to ratify the peace. His work as a mis- 

 sionary was greatly increased, though in many ways simplified, 

 by an epidemic which raged that year in the towns. 



The year 1669, brought a visitor of note and an increased 

 activity in missionary effort. Owing (*l) to the increase of work 

 due to the epidemic, Father Fremin found it impossible properly 

 to care for his flock and called for aid on Father Julian Gamier, 



then stationed at Onondaga. 



ffuJltxsrw^ qnyyr^^yr Upon his arrival he was sent 

 V A^ to Gandachiragon where he 



built a chapel. Father Fremin 



continued his work amongst the Hurons of St. Michel. 



The village of St. Michel or Gandougarae, was at that time 

 composed of the remnants of three nations which had been over- 

 thrown by the Senecas, namely the Neuters, the Hurons and the 

 Onontiogas. The Hurons were the remnants of the village of Scan- 

 nonenrat which, during the Huron war, twenty years before, had 

 surrendered to the Iroquois, and whose people had been scattered 

 amongst the cantons. These Hurons had been ministered to by 

 the Jesuit missionaries stationed in Huronia, and Father Fremin 

 was gratified beyond expression in finding that after twenty years 

 of exile amongst the pagan Senecas, forty still held to the Faith. 



The war with the Andastes continued during the year, and 

 two captives were burned in Gandougarae, after their baptism by 

 the priest. 



In August, 1669, during the absence from Sonnontouan of 

 both the priests, who had gone to attend a missionary confer- 

 ence of all the Jesuits ministering to the Iroquois, called by 

 Father Fremin as Superior to meet at Onondaga, the villages 

 were visited by two noted men, one a Sulpician priest, Rene de 

 Brehant de Galinee, and the head of the expedition of which 

 Galinee was a member, no less a personage than Robert Cava- 

 lier, Sieur de La Salle. 



The Sieur de La Salle was anxious to explore to the south- 

 ward, where, so he had heard, was a great river flowing to the 

 South Sea. He hoped to obtain from the Senecas a guide from 



•I Jes. Rel., LIV, 79. 



