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down his Paddle and turn'd back & took up his Gun, and 

 fo efcaped: One of our Indians fwom over the River and 

 fetch'd the Canoo, wherein was a confiderable quantity of 

 bloud on the Seats, that the Indians fat on; the Canoo 

 having feveral holes fhot in her: They ftopt the holes, and 

 then • Capt.' Brdckit 212 with an Indian Souldier went over 

 the River, who Track'd them by the bloud about half a 

 Mile, found his Gun, took it up, and feeing the bloud no 

 further, concluded that he ftopt his bloud, and fo got away. 

 In the mean time another Canoo with three Men were 

 coming down the River were fired at by fome of our 

 Forces, ran a-fhore and left two of their Guns in the Ca- 

 noo, which were taken, and alfo a Letter from a Prieft to 

 Caftcen™ that gave him an account of the French and 

 Indians returning over the Lake 214 to Mount-Royal? 15 and 

 of their little Service done upon the Maquas Indians weft- 

 ward, only demolifhing one Fort and cutting down fome 

 Corn, &c.~ lG He defiring to hear of the proceedings of 



212 See note 120, ante, le nom de Montreal donne a Hie oil 



213 See note 34, ante. cette petite montagne eft affife." [Hif- 

 •214 The Oneida or Onondaga lake. toirc de la Col. FranQaife en Canada, 



[1 New York Hift. Coll. iv : 121.] i : 24.] 



215 Montreal. " lis admirerent la 216 The Maquas {Mingos) were the 



beaute' des alentours, comme auffi le Five Nations of the Engliih, and the 



cours majeftueux & la largeur du grand Iroquois of the French. The expedi- 



fleuve, qu'ils fuivaient des yeux au- tion to which reference is here made was 



tant que leur vue pouvait f'etendre; that of Frontenac, who added to all his 



enfin l'impetuofite du faut oil leurs own French regulars as many Indians 



barques ctaient reftees ; ce qui fut caufe as he could collect, and left Lachine, 



que Cartier, charmii des' points de vue 7 July, 1696, with light batteaux for 



qu'il decouvrait de Hi, nomma cette river portage, &c, with a powerful force 



montagne le Mont-Royal, d'oii eft venu to attack the Five Nations. After 12 days' 



