Nigiit fell, and we continued our journey until morning when we withdi-ew into the picket fort to pass the remainder of the day there. About ten or eleven o'clock I lay down after having walked some time around our quarters, and falling asleep, I thought I beheld our enemies, the Iroquois, drowning within sight of us in the Lake near a mountain ; and being desirous to save them, that our Savage allies told me that I must let them all perish as they were good for notliing. On awaking, they did not omit, as usual to ask me, if I had any dream ? I did tell them, in fact, what I had dreamed. It gained such credit among them that they no longer doubted but they should meet with success.
At nightfall we embarked in our Canoes to continue our jouiney, and as we. advanced very softly and noiselessly, Ave encountered a war party of Iroquois, on the twenty ninth of. the month, about ten o'clock at nigiit, at the point of a Cape which juts into the Lake on the West side. They and we began to shout, each seizing liis arms. We withdrew towards the water and the Iroquois repaired on shore, and arranged all their canoes, the- one beside the other, and began to hew down trees with villainous axes, which they sometimes got in war, and others of stone, and fortified themselves very securely.
Our party, likewise, kept their canoes arranged the one alongside the other, tied to poles so as not to run adrift, in order to fight alltogether should need be. We were on the water about an arrow-shot from their bai-ricades.