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gone. In a little while they were seen to come back carrying 

 booty, which they had found in the village. 



On the seventeenth we cut the corn which was around the 

 village, the rain delaying us much. 



On the eighteenth we encamped about half a league from our 

 former camp, towards the fort of which I have spoken, where 

 there was a reserve force. The circumference was about 800 

 well measured paces; if they had wished to hold it we would have 

 had our trouble all for nothing, as it was not commanded from 

 any part. Their communication with those outside would have 

 given ns little chance to annoy them much. What corn was not 

 consumed by M. de Tonty we succeeded in burning up. It 

 appeared strange that such old corn tasted as new as we had ever 

 tasted. About ten o'clock in the evening we had an alarm, 

 caused by one Illinois woman (''Chinoise"), who ran away, 

 not having answerd our guard, and was wounded in the leg by 

 a gunshot wound. On being questioned she told us that the 

 consternation among our enemies was very great, that we had 

 killed more than forty by our attack and wounded more, and I 

 think that it is so. It is quite certain that we found 27 dead 

 Iroquois; six more were found in the woods or in a deserted 

 place. She assured us that the Sonontouans made the attack, 

 and that the other nations did not wish to join them. 



On the nineteenth we arrived at the village of Totiacton, four 

 leagues distant from the other, where we found still more corn 

 than at the other. We had another alarm caused by our savages, 

 which kept us for nearly the whole night in arms, fatiguing our 

 troops very much, there being no rest either by day or by night. 



On the twentieth we broke camp to get on higher ground, 

 being near the villages on our right, where the enemy could 

 attack us. We also cut the corn. Another woman gave us the 

 the same report as the Illinois woman, and she added that four 

 of our Iroquois who had carried the news of our march had their 

 heads split open, that they were fleeing with the Sonontouans 

 when a party of Miamis killed them, and that she heard their 

 cries when she ran away to save herself. This agrees with the 

 report of the savage that our Iroquois are going to inform their 

 people. 



On the twenty-first we came to the village of Ganonata, 

 about two leagues from Totiacton, the last Sonontouan village 

 where we had bnrned the corn. 



