Seeing the wind always contrary I sent on the preceding day, eight of the largest canoes that I had to the bark at La Galette to bring me ten thousand weight of flour, bread beginning to fail which caused me a good deal of uneasiness and created considerable

murmurs among the troops and the militia. Finally on the 21 st my canoes arrived with what I sent them for. I set to work immediately with all possible diligence to have bread and biscuit baked, and sent off forthwith, the King's troops, D'Orvilliers'

and Dugu6's two brigades, and two hundred

Christian savages to encamp at

La Famine [Hungry bay], a post favorable for fishing and hunting and four leagues from Onontague, so as to be nearer the enemy and to be able to refresh our troops by fishing and the chase, whilst we were short of provisions, intending to join them, myself, with about three hundred Frenchmen whom I had remaining.

On the 25 th the canoes which I had detached from La Galette to Montreal, arrived, but in far less number than I had looked for, and brought me but eight or nine thousand weight of flour, instead of twenty thousand which I expected, having left them ready for loading when I departed. I caused bread and biscuit to be immediately made of it for the support of our troops^who were at the place called La Famine. On the 27 th at four o'clock in the afternoon, a canoe of M. Lemoine's men arrived from Onnontague with Tegancourt who reported to me, that the Onnontagu6s had received orders from Col.