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go. The crew saved themselves by swimming as soon as they were overturned. Sieur de Villieu was thrown by the whirlpools upon the edge of a second rock. In this condition his head broken, his stomach full of water, bruised all over his body, the canoe broken, his luggage and his arms lost he was seized with a fever which lasted until the twenty-third.

On the twenty-sixth, a canoe arrived at Panaoumskek from Medauktek, which brought information that the Malecizites, to the number of sixty, had been detained by Father Simon Recolet, under orders from Monsieur de Villebon, but that sixteen had scorned the order, and would arrive on the following day.

On the twenty-seventh, a council was held to deliberate concerning the place at which they should make the attack, but it broke up without anything being decided upon. The next day the same thing happened. In the evening, Sieur de Villieu gave a feast of dogs to the savages, at which they sang the war song, excepting about thirty of the band of Mataquando, who were jeered and taunted during the feast. After the feast Mataquando, won over by the prayers and the presents which had been made to him by Sieur de Villieu and Thury, begged the former to put off the departure for a day and he would then accompany him. Every one was delighted with this, he having acquired the reputation of a brave in the preceding wars. On the thirtieth, Sieur de Villieu, Thury, one intrepid Frenchman, and one hundred and five savages, started for the mouth of the river Ranibeki to unite with the Kanibats who were to meet them there.

On the ninth, Sieur de Villieu, with three savages, he being disguised like them, approached Fort Pemakuit, and having given some peltries to the savages for a pretext of having come to trade at the fort, he reconnoitered the situation of the place, the entrance to the harbor and the anchorage, of which he very successfully drew the plan. On the tenth,