We proceed on our journey on the same river which is of a fine width and deep throughout, except some shoals where we must get into the water and draw the canoe lest the rocks break it. 20.

We arrive at the Great Lake, Ontario, called the Lake of the Iroquois.

This lake is in a fury in consequence of the violence of the winds after a storm of rain.

22.

Coasting quietly the shores of this Great Lake, my sailors kill with a shot from a gun, a large

stag

:

my companion and I content ourselves looking at them broiling their stakes, it being Saturday,

a day of abstinence for us. 23.

We arrive at the place which is fixed on for our house and a French settlement.

prairies, good fishing; a resort of all Nations.

selves and furnished

24 and 25.

There

Beautiful

found new Christians who confessed themme with devotion in their sentiments of piety.

Being windbound, one of our canoes foundered on the 26, our

barked before the tempest had abated, and we thought we should have perished

sailors

--

having emfinally we cast ourselves on an island where we dried ourselves at our leisure.

27.

In the evening a little lull afforded us time to regain the main land.

28 and 29.

The chase stops our sailors who are in the best possible humor

;

for flesh is the paradise of the man of flesh.

30 and last of August.

The rain and wind seriously inconvenience poor travellers, who having