knowing it, we found ourselves in the midst of breakers which, meeting a quantity of big rocks, threw up mountains of water and cast us on as many precipices as we gave strokes of paddles. Our batteaux which drew scarcely half a foot, were soon filled with water and all our people in such confusion, that their cries mingled with the roar of the torrent presented to us the spectacle of a dreadful It became imperative, however, to extricate ourselves, the violence of the current

dragging

us despite ourselves into the large rapids and through passes in which we had never been.

Terror

wreck.

redoubled at the sight of one of our canoes being engulfed in a breaker which barred the entire rapid

and which, notwithstanding, was the course that all the others must keep. Three Frenchmen were drowned there, a fourth fortunately escaped, having held on to the canoe and being saved at the foot of the Sault when at the point of letting go his hold, his strength being exhausted. * The 3d of April we landed at Montreal, iu the beginning of the night.

how our Fathers and our Frenchmen withdrew from their habitation built

You noticed above

on the banks of Lake Ganantaa, near Onnontague.

That happened at night, and without noise aDd

with so much address, that the Iroquois, who cabined at the doors of our house, never perceived the removal of the canoes and batteaux and baggage which were launched, nor the embarcation of fifty-three Sleep in which they were deeply enveloped, after considerable singing and dancing, deprived