water they had provided in bark tanks to extinguish fire when necessary, afforded sufficient first resolution had been quite different from that which the terror of our A few persons whom their advanced age had arms had caused them so suddenly to adopt. prevented withdrawing from the village two days previously with all the women and children, and the remains of two or three savages of another tribe whom they had half roasted at a slow

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with their accustomed fury, were all that were found.

After having planted the Cross and and sung the Te Beum on the spot, all that remained was to fire the palisades and cabins and to destroy all the stores of Indian corn, beans and other produce of the country found there. The other villages were again visited where as well as throughout the whole country, the same devastation was committed so that those who are acquainted with the mode fire

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of living of these barbarians doubt not but famine will cause as many to perish as would have

been destroyed by the arms of our soldiery had they dared to await them, and that those who survive will be reduced by terror to peaceful conditions and to a demeanor more difficult to be

obtained from them by mere sanguinary victories.

The return route of our troops was more disagreeable than that taken in going, because the rivers being swollen some seven or eight feet by the rains, were found much more difficult to cross, and a storm which arose on Lake Champlain wrecked two canoes with eight persons, amongst whom was to be particularly regretted Sieur de Lugues, Lieutenant of a company, who made frequent displays of his valour in France as well as in Canada. The courage of our troops was ever wonderfully excited in the hardships of this expedition and in the face of danger, by the examples of M. de Tracy, M. de Courcelles and M. de Salliere, Quarter Master (Mestre de Camp) of the regiment and of Chevalier de Chaumont who desired always on approaching the villages to be of the forlorn hope and their generosity was animated by the zeal and pious sentiments with which Messrs. du Bois and Cosson, secular Priests, and ;