venience, day nor night, jjOne could rest more at
ease with death staring him in the face.
:. ■25th.' We- found the river so rapid, we were
compelled to cast ourselves into the water, and
drag our capoe after us among the-rocks, as a
dismounted cavalier leads/his hbrse by the bridle*
In thee evening we landed at the mouth of
Lake St. Tghace, where the eel abounds in prodigious
quantities.
£6th. A storm of wind and rain obliged us to
land this morning, after four hours’ journey.. ¥ e
soon made a shelter. Stripping some neighboring
trees of their bark, we cast it on poles placed
in the ground in a circle* thejends of which, we
brought together in the form of an arbor. This
done, behold the house is finished. Ambit ion
finds no door in such a palace—more delightful
to us than if the roof ^ab'-'all gold.
27th. ^We coasted along the banks of the lake,
which are "high and rocky on all sides,-presenting
the frightful and picturesque. | It is wonderful
how such large trees can find root amdng so
many rocks.
28th. A storm of thunder and lightning, and
deluge of rain, obliged us to remain under the
protection of our canoe, which, being inverted,
served for our shelter.
<2dth and 30th. A continued storm of wind arrested
us at the entrance of a great lake, named
Ontario. We called it Iroquois lake, because the
Iroquois nation have their villages on its southern
borders. The Huron s are on the northern side,
more in the interior. This lake is aboftt twenty
leagues broad, and forty long.
. 31st. We were this day obliged to make up
for the time we lost by the storm. We traversed
long islands, carrying our baggage, provisions,
and canoe on óur shoulders. It made the way
seem long to us* poor wëary voyagers.
August 1st. We landed, this day at a small
• village of Iroquois fishermen.
. 2d. We began our march in. the forest, and
after travelling twelve or fifteen leagues, encamped
about sunset.
3d. At noon wp found ourselves on the banks
of a river, one hundred or one.- hundred and
twenty paces wide, on the other side of which
there is a village of fishermen.
An Iroquois, whom I had befriended at Mofit-
real, set me across in his canoe* and kipjpy bore
me to the shore on his.shoulders, being unwilling
that I should put my feet into the water. Every
one received me with joy, and these poor people
enriched me with their poverty^ They conducted
me to anothervillage, about a league distant,
where a young man of. consideration made a
feast for me, because I bore the name of his father,
Ondessonk. The chiefs, one after another,
came to harangue us. I baptized some dying
children, who perhaps were just spared,, for that
sprinkling of the precious blood of Christ.
4th. They inquired of usysfhy we wore clothed
in black, I embraced the opportunity to speak