Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
AND DISCOVERY OF THE SALT SPRINGS. 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 amusement, by blows of an axe. 5.
In one day we travel over the road which took us two long days ascending the rapids and
breakers. 6.
Our Sault St. Louis frightens my folks.
They land me four leagues above the settlement of
Montreal, and God gave me sufficient strength to arrive before noon, and to celebrate mass, of which I was deprived during
my whole voyage.
I proceed and descend to
Three Rivers where nay- sailors desire to go. on the eleventh day of the month of September of this year, 1654. 7.
We arrived at Quebec
JOURNAL OF WHAT OCCURRED BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND SAVAGES. [
Relation, &c.
1657 and 1658.
]
The word Onnota, which signifies, in the Iroquois tongue, a Mountain, has given the name to the village called Onnontae, or as others call it, Onnontague, because it is on a mountain ;
and the people
who inhabit it consequently style themselves Onnontae-ronnons, or Onnontague-ronnons.
These
people 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 granted
to them, in the year 1655. 5 th
They embarked on the 19 th Sept., and arrived at Onnontague the