arrived only six hours previously to the number of seven hundred men, viz : one hundred and fifty

French and the remainder Indians. I departed on the sixth, having had all the sick of

my troops embarked before day (so as not to be

seen by the Indians) to the number of one hundred and

fifty canoes

and twelve flat batteaux and

arrived in the evening of the same day at Fort Frontenac, where I found one hundred and ten men

:

DE LA BARRE's EXPEDITION TO HUNGRY BAY. of the

number I had left there, already departed, all sick, for Montreal, and having given the

necessary orders as to the number of soldiers to be

left

there for the security of that post, until the

arrival from France of Sieur de la Forest, Major thereof, I started, about nine or ten o'clock in the morning, on my return. Shortly after my departure, the bark arrived from Niagara with some

French officers of the army who brought me news from it at night, and assured me that the Chiefs of all the savages had accompanied them to the Fort, desirous to see me, and that they would visit

me at Montreal, where I should await them.

The Rev. Father de Lamberville Sen r came, likewise,

with these Gentlemen on account of some difficulties which he was very glad to arrange for Onontague whither he returned.

We worked some hours together

;

then sent him back to the fort

with some of the arrived French ; the others being desirous to leave and come down again into the country.