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Dehor ahuel? xl and the French Man of War; and informed 

 him that there were feveral Canoo's coming with work- 

 men from Quabeck, to Saint y<?/^'s, 218 where fince we con- 

 cluded it was to build a Fort at the Rivers Mouth, where 

 the great Guns were taken, &c. It being juft Night, the 

 Officers were calTd together to advife, & their Pilot York 



march, they arrived at Cadaracqui, 

 and fcattered the Onondagas, but only 

 captured a little corn and a Sachem 100 

 years old, whom they tortured in a way 

 which extorted from Charlevoix the 

 remark, that " never was a man treated 

 with more cruelty, nor ever did any 

 man bear torture with greater firmnefs 

 and magnanimity." Frontenac marched 

 back, with no further refults for this 

 expenfive campaign than the treacher- 

 ous capture of 35 confiding Oncidas, 

 who were taken by the Chevalier Vau- 

 drueil. [1 New- York Hi/i. Coll. ii : 

 44; iv: 121; Bancroft's Hift. U. S. iii : 

 190 : Hildreth's Hift. U. S. ii : 193 ; Dun- 

 lap's WJi. New York, i : 227 ; Colden's 

 Hijl. Five hid. Nations, 1SS-194.] 



217 This is a curious illuftration of 

 the eafe with which names are changed 

 by paffing from one language into 

 another. Between Col. Church's way 

 of pronouncing the name of this French 

 admiral, and his fon Thomas's way of 

 writing it, the very refpeftable D'lber- 

 ville was metamorphofed into the 

 abnormal, if not neutral, certainly pe- 

 culiar, " Deborahuel." 



Lemoine D 'Iberville was born in Mon- 

 treal, 1642 ; was one of feven brothers 

 adtive in Canadian affairs ; went early 

 to fea; diftinguiihed himfelf for bravery 

 and ability; commanded the expedition 

 14 I 



which recovered Fort Nelfon to the 

 French, 16S6 ; fuccefsfully invaded New- 

 foundland, and gained victories in Hud- 

 fon's Bay, 1697 ; was reputed to be the 

 moft fkilful naval officer in the French 

 fervice ; was commiffioned to explore 

 the mouth of the Miffiffippi, and failed 

 from Rochcfort for that purpofe, 17 Oct., 

 169S; entered the river, 2 March, 1670: 

 returned to France, but was again or- 

 dered to the river; captured Nevis, 

 1706; died at Havana, on board 

 his fhip, on the eve of an expedition 

 againft Jamaica, 9 July, 1706. Hutch- 

 infon is wrong in his note, "This was 

 not the Iberville who laid the foun- 

 dation of the French colony at Mif- 

 fiffippi in 1690. He died in a year or 

 two after that." The colony was found- 

 ed in 1699, and D'Iberville lived feven 

 years after that date. He was invading 

 Newfoundland the next year after this 

 expedition of Church, and there is no 

 reafon to doubt that he was the admiral 

 in command of the French lbips which 

 captured and razed Pemaquid. [Hutch- 

 infon's Hift. Mafs. ii : 88; New Amer. 

 Cyc. ix: 430.] 



218 Saint John still ftands — as the 

 principal city and feaport of New 

 Brunfwick — on a rocky peninfula on 

 the left bank of the picturefque river 

 of the name. 



