the Christian Indians being about one hundred and twenty or thirty strong, in

meane time the French and other Nations of Indians all appeared at Mont Royall, and the second day after that the Gov r himselfe the number of the French being two thousand and of all the Indians one thousand. The army went all by water in about two hundred boates in each Boate some seaven and some ten menn, the rest went in Canoes, they were sometimes forced to draw the ;

Boates with Cordes against the Trenches, the Provisions being part in the Boats and a great deal sent

upp before at Kadraghke

:

they were going up from Mont Royall to Kadraghke three dayes, makeing verry short journeys ; att Kadraghkie they rested three days from thence they went and lay att

night upon an Island, the night after they lay at Cadranganhie next morning about nine the clock

they saw ten Onnondages att Aranhage

;

the Gov gave orders not to meddle with them,

upon that

the Onnondages gave a greate shout and went their way, and the army went along the shore-side to

a passage that goes to the Cayouges ; the day following they saw a Brigantine att anker, and

all

the

army went ashore and lay there that night. Some of the French went aboard the Brigantine where Arnout was, as this Examinant has heard next day the army went along and att Jedandago, the Gov r landed fifty men to discover the place and the rest went on to Ierondokat where att the same time they mett with the French that came from Twightwig and Dowaganha with their Indians, then the Gov r ordered the Xtian Maquasse and some other Indians to bee putt in the middle of the army and stayed there three dayes till the Fort was finished, in the meane time four or five Indians came and asked what the matter was, and why the French came so strong in their Country, the French answered (by a Xtian Maquasse) wee come to meet you, the Sinnakes asked againe, and said, why doe you make a Fort, you should butt come on, for we intend to kill you all in a short time.