Some rteu* Voyages 



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LETTER XVII, 

 Dated at Quebec September 28. 168^ 



The Author fets out from MifTilimakinac to the 

 Colony, and defcribes the Country, Rivers, and 

 PaJJes that he [aw by the way. The Iroquefe 

 make a fatal incur [ton into the Ifland of Mori- 

 real : Fort Frontenac is abandon d. Count 

 Frontenac is fent to Canada, and the Marquis 

 of Denonville is recall* d. 



IWric to you from MiffiUmahnac on the 28th 0$ 

 May. I left that place June the Stb, and fet out 

 for Monreal, accompany'd with twelve Outaouas y 

 who were divided into two Canows, and row'd 

 very hard. The 2; J, I overtook the Coureurs de Bois 

 in the River Creufe, who had got the ftart of me 

 for fome days, Mr. Dulhut us'd his utmoft efforts 

 to diffwade me from going further with fo weak a£ 

 Retinue. He would have had me to go down along 

 with him; and remonftrated to me, that if my 

 twelve Condu&ers perceived either in the Land- 

 carriage or upon the Rivers, any thing that might 

 call up an apprehenfion of falling into the hands of 

 the Iroquefe, they would defert me and the Canows, 

 and fly to the Woods to avoid the Enemy. I re- 

 jg&ed his Advice, though I had like to have repent** 

 ed of my refolution not long after ; for according 

 to his Predidiion, my Canow-Men threatn'd to run 

 away to the Forrefts, at the Fall calTd LongSaut i 

 And indeed if they had done it, I had follow c! 'em, 

 upon the reueiSion^ that of two Evils a Man ought 



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