Our pilot being hurt, we must remain a prey to the musquitoes, and have patience, often more difficult in regard to the inconveniences which have no intermission neither night nor day, than to behold death before one's eyes. 25th. The river is so very rapid that we are obliged to throw ourselves in the stream to drag our canoe after us, amid the rocks, as a cavalier, dismounting, leads his horse by the bridle. At night

we arrive at the entrance of Lake St. Ignatius, in which eels abound in a prodigious quantity.

A high wind with rain forces us to debark, after having made four leagues. A hut is soon The neighboring trees are stript of their bark this is thrown on poles set in the ground on either side, bringing them together in the form of an arbor and then our house is built. Ambition 26th.

built.

;

;

finds no entrance into this palace.

with gold.

It failed not to be as agreeable to us as if the roof was all covered

FIRST SETTLEMENT AT ONONDAGA,

We coasted along the shores of the lake

27th.

;

they are rocks on one side and the other, of an

immense height, now frightful, now pleasing to the sight. root among so many rocks.

It is

wonderful

how large trees can find

Thunder, lightning and a deluge of rain oblige us to shelter ourselves under our canoe, 28th. which being inverted, serves us for a house. 29th and 30th July. A rain storm continues, which arrests us at the entrance of a great lake