answered that it was our intention, now, to regain the honor of which our misfortunes had deprived us, and the sole means to accomplish that was to carry Orange, or to perish in so glorious

an enterprise.

As the Indians, who had an intimate acquaintance with the localities, and more experience than the French, could not be brought to agree with the latter, it was determined to postpone coming to a conclusion until the party should arrive at the spot where the two routes separate the one leading

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to Orange, and the other to Corlear (Schenectady).

In the course of the journey, which occupied

eight days, the Frenchmen judged proper to diverge towards Corlear, according to the advice of

This detachment entered New Hampshire, where they burned a place called Salmon Falls.

the

INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY. Indians; and this road was taken without calling a new council.

Nine days more elapsed before

they aj^ived, having experienced inconceivable difficulties, and having been obliged to march up to their knees in water, and to break the ice with their feet in order to find a solid footing.

They arrived within two leagues of Corlear about four o'clock in the evening, and were harangued by the great Mohawk chief of the Iroquois from the Sault. He urged on all to perform their duty, and to lose all recollections of their fatigue, in the hope of taking ample revenge for the injuries they had received from the Iroquois at the solicitation of the English, and of washing them out in the blood of the traitors. This savage was without contradiction the most considerable of his tribe an