He found the castle "built on a hill without any palisades or any defence." He located it east -of Canajohare Creek, a stream which has never lost its identity. When Van Curler visited the castle it contained "sixteen houses, fifty, sixty, seventy or eighty paces long." Detained in this castle by a heavy fall of rain which broke up the streams -- the "January thaw" of 1635 in the Mohawk Valley -- Van Curler resumed his journey on the 20th, and "after marching

' Father Jogues noted in his narrative a "torrent" which passed "At the foot of their village" -- a brook or creek which was swollen by rains into a torrent, and from which, on the later recedence of the water, he recovered the remains of the body of his companion, Rene Goupil, who had been murdered and his body thrown into it, probably with the expectation that it would be carried down into the Mohawk, "At the foot of their village," or at the ioot of the hill on which the village stood.

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a mile" (Dutch), came to Oanajohare Creek which he was obHged to ford. After crossing and walking "half a mile" (Dutch), he came to what he called the "Third Castle of the name af Sohanidisse," later written by him Rohanadissc, and by Van der Donck Schanatisse, suggesting the name of the hill on Which it stood, wihich Van Curler described as "very high." It contained "thirtytwo houses like t'he others" ; was not palisaded. The very high 'hill, and the flat lands which he referred to, remain. On the 2 1 St, before reaching the second stream which he noted later as having crossed, he wrote that "half a mile" west of Canajohare Creek he came to a village of "nine houses of the name of Osqiiage'' which gave name to the stream now known as the Otsqiiage, which he also called Okqiiage and Okwahohage, "Wolves" -- a village of the Wolf tribe.