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

We call it the Lake of the Iroquois, because they have their villages on the south The Hurons are on the other shore, farther on in the interior. This lake is twenty

called Ontario. side there.

leagues wide ; 31st.

its length about forty.

St. Ignatius' day.

The rain and storm force us to seek for lost roads.

islands, carrying our baggage, provisions and canoe on our shoulders.

We cross long

The road seems long to a

poor weary man.

On the first day of the month of August, some Iroquois fishermen having perceived us from a One of them runs towards us, advancing a half a league to communicate the earliest news and the state of the country. It is a Huron prisoner, and a good distance, get together to receive us.

Christian, whom I formerly instructed during a winter that I passed among the savages.

lad could not believe that it was he whom he never hoped to see again. village of fishermen.

They crowd as to who shall carry our bagage.

This poor