mutual enemy. When the rest of the company had left us, and we

had advanced nearly two hours on our voyage, we found 2 canoes

which had been sent out to spy and which had shot an elk. -- After

we had done eating and had supplied our canoes we proceeded on

our way as far as Canaghsionie. --

The 15th day of August we came one Dutch mile above Crown Point.--

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The 16th ditto we had advanced as far as Kanondoro, and resolved at that place to travel by night and have that night gone onward to near the spot where Ambrosio (?) Corlaer is drowned, and there one of our savages fell in convulsions, charmed and conjured by the devil, and said that a great battle had taken place at Quebeck (Cubeck) and that much heavy cannon must have been fired there, and that one hundred canoes with savages had come down the river from Cadaraqui. (Coederoqua.) And about one hour after sunrise we have gone to Oghraro, where I placed the first guard and nominated Barent Wemp as officer of the guard.

The 17 ditto in the evening we proceeded to Ogharonde. A Tsenondoga savage of our Company died there ; he died of sickness ; the Oneida savages gave a wampum belt for the atonement of the dead. That day Capt. Schuyler with his subaltern officers and the Chief of the savages resolved where they should make their attack upon the enemy, and they determined by the majorities to fall upon fort La Prairie (Lapplarie) ; whereupon the Mohawks gave a wampum belt to the Schaghkock savages as a token to stand by each other faithfully, and what they do call "onroghquasa In a Goera". -- The Oneida savages did the same to the Mohawk savages by some handful of wampum, and in this manner this resolution was decidedly agreed upon and confirmed with shaking of hands {kinsekaje) as well by the christians as by the savages, and, moreover, approved by the savages as to whom should be their chiefs or headmen, --Carristasio and Tehoesequatho and Juriaen the ferocious.