May, in company with three Fathers and two brothers of the Society, and a good number of Frenchmen, who all proceeded towards this new country, where they arrived on the ID" day of July of the same year, 1656. In the year 1657, the harvest appearing plentiful in all the villages of the upper Iroquois, 1657.

the common people listening to the words of the gospel with simplicity and the Chiefs with a

well disguised dissimulation, Father Paul Ragueneau, Father Francois

Du Peron, some

Frenchmen and several Hurons, departed from Montreal the 26 th July, to aid their brethren and compatriots.

On the 3 d day of the month of August of the same year 1657, the perfidy of the Iroquois began to develop itself by the massacre which they made of the poor Hurons

whom they brought into their

country, after thousands of protestations of kindness and thousands of oaths, in their style, that

they should treat them as brothers.

And had not a number of Iroquois remained among the French,

near Quebec, to endeavor to bring with them the rest of the Hurons, who distrusting these traitors,

would not embark with the others, the Fathers and the Frenchmen who ascended with them would have then been destroyed ; and all those who remained on the banks of Lake Ganantaa, near to

But the fear that the French would wreak vengeance on their countrymen, staid their design, of which our fathers had had secret intelligence immediately on their arrival in the country. Even a captain who was acquainted with the Onnontague, would shortly after have shared the same fate.