On the 13 th about four o'clock in the afternoon, having passed through two dangerous defiles, we arrived at the third where we were vigorously attacked by 800 Senecas, 200 of whom fired, wishing to attack our rear whilst the remainder of their force would attack our front, but the resistance they met produced such a great consternation that they soon resolved to fly. All our troops were so

overpowered by the extreme heat and the long journey we had made that we were obliged to bivouac on the field until the morrow.

We witnessed the painful sight of the usual cruelties of the savages

who cut the dead into quarters, as in slaughter houses, in order to put them into the pot the greater number were opened while still warm that their blood might be drank. Our rascally Otaous distin;

guished themselves particularly by these barbarities and by their poltroonery, for they withdrew

from the combat

;

the Hurons of Michilimaquina did very well, but our Christian Indians surpassed

whom we durst not make sure having The Illinois performed their duty well. We had five or six men killed on the spot, French and Indians, and about twenty wounded, among the first of whom was the Rev Fath Angleran, superintendent of the Otaous missions, by a very severe gunshot. It is a great misfortune to us that this wound will prevent him going back again, for he is a man of capacity,

all and performed deeds of valour, especially our Iroquois of