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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. BRULE, ACCOMPANYING CHAMPLAIN, AGAIN STARTS FOR THE HURON COUNTRY.? HE GOES AS INTERPRETER FOR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.? HIS ARRIVAL AMONG THE HURONS.? CHAM- PLAIN STARTS WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED OF THESE INDIANS AGAINST THE IROQUOIS. ? SOME ACCOUNTS OF THE MOHAWKS, O-NEIDAS, ONON- DAGAS, CAYUGAS, AND SENEGAS. On the site of the present city of Montreal, there assembled, in the summer of 1615, Hurons and Al- gonquins, who had come down for the yearly trade with the French upon the St. Lawrence. Cham- plain, who had returned in May from France, was asked by the Hurons to join their bands against the Iroquois ?particularly against that one of the Five Nations known afterwards to the whites as the Onondagas,living to the south ward of Lake Ontario. Twenty-five hundred Indian warriors were promised to go upon the war-path. The campaign was to be on a much more comprehensive scale than anything that had preceded it, and was to be an attack on a large town situated in the heart of the present State of New York. This was distant not less than eight hundred miles by the circuitous route which it was necessary to make in reaching it. Warriors were to be collected and marshalled from the various villages of the Hurons; Algonquins also were to join them. The undertaking was not a small one. A journey, including the return, of fifteen hundred or two thousand miles, by river and lake, through swamps and tangled forests, with the incumbrance of necessary baggage and a motley crowd of several hundred savages to be daily fed by the chance of fishing and hunting, demanded a brave heart and a strong will. But it offered an opportunity for exploring unknown regions, which Cham- plain could not bring himself to decline. l The lieutenant-governor, notwithstanding his previous f...
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