AND DISCOVERY OF THE SALT SPRINGS.

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3 d and 4 th . Our game does not leave us; it seems that venison and game follow us every where.Droves of twenty cows plunge into the water as if to meet us. Some are killed, for sake of amuse-ment, by blows of an axe.

5. In one day we travel over the road which took us two long days ascending the rapids andbreakers.

6 . Our Sault St. Louis frightens my folks. They land me four leagues above the settlement ofMontreal, and God gave me sufficient strength to arrive before noon, and to celebrate mass, of whichI was deprived during my whole voyage.

7. I proceed and descend to Three Eivers where my sailors desire to go. We arrived at Quebec on the eleventh day of the month of September of this year, 1654.

JOURNAL OF WHAT OCCURRED BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND SAVAGES.

[ Relation, &e. 1657 and 1658. ]

The word Onnota , which signifies, in the Iroquois tongue, a Mountain, has given the name to thevillage called Onnontae, or as others call it, Onnontague, because it is on a mountain; and the peoplewho inhabit it consequently style themselves Onnontae-ronnons, or Onnontagu 6 -ronnons. Thesepeople have for a long time and earnestly demanded that some priests of our- Society be sent

1655. to their country. Finally, Father Joseph Chaumont and Father Claude Dablon were grantedto them, in the year 1655. They embarked on the 19 th Sept., and arrived at Onnontague the

5 th November of the same year 1655.

These two good fathers finding themselves listened to with approval and kindness, Father

1656. Dablon left Onnontague on the second day of March of the following year 1656, to look forhelp at Quebec , where he arrived in the beginning of April, and departed thence on the 17th

May, in company with three Fathers and two brothers of the Society, and a good number of French-men , who all proceeded towards this new country, where they arrived on the lph day of July ofthe same year, 1656.

In the year 1657, the harvest appearing plentiful in all the villages of the upper Iroquois ,

1657. the common people listening to the words of the gospel with simplicity and the Chiefs with awell disguised dissimulation, Father Paul Eagueneau, Father Francois Du Peron, some

Frenchmen and several Hurons, departed from Montreal the 26 th July, to aid their brethren andcompatriots.

On the 3 d day of the month of August of the same year 1657, the perfidy of the Iroquois beganto develop itself by the massacre which they made of the poor Hurons whom they brought into theircountry, after thousands of protestations of kindness and thousands of oaths, in their style, thatthey should treat them as brothers. And had not a number of Iroquois remained among the French ,near Quebec , to endeavor to bring with them the rest of the Hurons, who distrusting these traitors,would not embark with the others, the Fathers and the Frenchmen who ascended with them wouldhave then been destroyed; and all those who remained on the banks of Lake Ganantaa, near toOnnontague, would shortly after have shared the same fate. But the fear that the French wouldwreak vengeance on their countrymen, staid their design, of which our fathers had had secret intel-ligence immediately on their arrival in the country. Even a captain who was acquainted with the