Michael the Archangel the patron of that place ;

many had, as early as the third day,

the nose, the ears, the knees and the fingers or other parts entirely frozen and the remainder of the

body covered with cicatrixes, and some others wholly overcome and benumbed by the cold would have perished in the snow, had they not been carried, though with considerable difficulty, to the place where they were to pass the night.

FRENCH EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE MOHAWKS.

Sieurs De la Fouille, Maximin and Lobiac, Captains in the Carignan regiment, having joined this little

army on the 24th January, each with 20 soldiers of their companies and some habitans of the

place were treated by the cold, on the day following, worse than any had previously been, and many soldiers were obliged to be brought back, of

whom some had the legs cut by the ice and others the

hands or the arms or other parts of the body altogether frozen.

These losses were repaired by

Sieurs de Chambly, Petit and Rogemont, Captains of the same regiment, and by the Sieurs Mignardi,

Lieutenant of the Colonel's company which was withdrawn from Forts St. Louis and St. Therese,

where the troops rendezvoused on the 30th of the same month.

So that the army being still 500

men strong finally arrived on the 14th of February, with the same difficulties and the same dangers, as before, in the enemy's country, at 20 leagues distance from their villages.

The journey yet to be