Therefore
They Are Not Alltogether Ashamed To Shew Us All, To Intice Us, And
Inanimate The Men To Defend Themselves Valliantly And Come And Injoy Them.
In two dayes we arrived att the River of the sturgeon, so called because of
the great quantity of sturgeons that we tooke there.
Here we weare to make
our provissions to passe the lake some 14 dayes. In the said tearme wee
dryed up above a million of sturgeons. [Footnote: He no doubt meant to say,
above "un mille," or "above a thousand."] The women followed us close;
after our abode there two dayes they overtooke us. We had severall fals
allarums, which putt us in severall troubles. They woundred to have found
an Oryanck dead uppon the place, with a boullet in his body. There thousand
lyes weare forged. Therefore we goe from thence, but before we come to the
Longpoint whereof we spoak before, the wildmen called it okinotoname, we
perceive smoake. We goe to discover what it was, and by ill looke we found
it was a Iroquoits boat of seaven men, who doubtlesse stayed that winter in
the lake of the hurrons, and came there to discover somewhat. I cannot say
that they weare the first that came there. God graunt that they may be the
last. As they saw us, away they, as swift as their heels could drive. They
left their boat and all. They to the woods, and weare pursued, but in
vaine, ffor they weare gone before three houres.
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