them to pass the first and second portages, where I should join them, so that on the thirtieth I passed their encampment beyond the said second portage, and we marched next day, both brigades together, Sieur D'Orvilliers bringing up the rear with the third one day behind us, so that being, on the 1 st of August in Lake St. Francis with about two hundred canoes and our fifteen batteaux, I was joined there by the Rev. Father Lamberville, Junior, coming on behalf of his Brother from Onontague, and by the Rev. Father Millet, brigade, and the two companies of King's troops, and ordered
from the Oneidas.
DE LA BARRE's EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY.
By the annexed letters from Onontagu6, you will learn that these people having been joined by the Oneidas and Cayugas, had obliged the Senecas to make them Mediators as to the reparation suitable to be made to me for the insult winch had unfortunately been committed against the French in the month of March and prayed me to send Mr. le Moine to them, with whom they could terminate ;
this affair.
This obliged me immediately to despatch a canoe to Port Frontenac in all haste, to send
me from there the new bark which I had built in the winter, in order to freight her with the provisions I brought, and to send the canoes in which they were loaded to fetch others from la Chine.
We arrived on the second, at the Portage of the Long Sault, which I found very difficult, notwithfifty men ahead thither, to cut the trees on the bank of the river and prevented those passing who were to drag the canoes and batteaux because the stream being