Tbe loss on this occasion in houses, cattle and grain, amounts to more tban four hundred thousand livres. There were upwards of eighty well built and well furnished houses in the town.

The return march commenced with thirty prisoners. The wounded, who were to be carried, and Frenchmen were loaded, caused considerable inconvenience. Fifty good horses were brought away. Sixteen only of these reached Montreal. The the plunder, with which all the Indians and some

remainder were killed for food on the road. Sixty leagues from Corlear the Indians began to hunt, and the French not being able to wait for

them, being short of provisions, continued their route, having detached Messieurs d'Ibervile and Du

Chesne with two savages before them to Montreal. less were very

much fatigued, lost their way.

On the same day, some Frenchmen, who doubt-

Fearful that they should be obliged to keep up with

the main body, and believing themselves in safety having eighty Indians in tbeir rear, they were

They were waited for next day until eleven o'clock, but in vain, and no account has since been received of them.

found missing from the camp.

Two hours after, forty men more left the main body without acquainting the commander, continued their route by themselves, and arrived within two leagues of Montreal one day ahead, so that there

were not more than fifty or sixty men together.

The evening on which they should arrive at Monaway from M. de Sainte Hetreal, being extremely fatigued from fasting and bad roads, the rear fell