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Lieutenant of the Colonel's company which was withdrawn from Forts St. Louis and St. Therese,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

travelled, was very long in consequence of the prodigious depth of the snow and the delay of the

Algonquin guides, in whose absence unknown routes were to be tried and continual mistakes experienced.

Finally information was received from prisoners who were taken in some detached cabins, and from the Commandant of a hamlet inhabited by the Dutch of New Netherland, that the greater part

of the Mohawks and Oneidas having gone to a distance to make war against other tribes called the

Wampum Makers, (les faiseurs de porcelaine) had left in their villages only the children and the helpless old men ;

and it was considered useless to push farther forward an expedition which had all

the effect intended by the terror it spread among all the tribes, who were haughty and perfidious

only because they considered themselves inaccessible to our troops. killed several savages who from time to time

Before returning however we made their appearance along the skirts of the forest

for the purpose of skirmishing with our people.