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them on the head, which could not fail to produce a good effect.

On the same day, Sieur de Villieu questioned the prisoners who told him that on the twenty-fifth, the seigneur of the place had assembled the inhabitants to tell them that peace had been made with the Indians; that they could work with safety upon their lands; that they should not oppose uniting with the aid which King William had sent them in order to make themselves masters of Canada; that the aid consisted of two large ships, which in leaving the harbor had been met by the French who had sent one of them to the bottom; that the other had escaped under the cover of night and had arrived safely in port; that they had already commenced to levy soldiers to supply their armament; that as fast as they were assembled they were taken to some islands. They were told that on one of the islands there were already one hundred waiting until everything should be ready in order to set out, and that a considerable number of little cedar boats had been made.

This news was considered of sufficient importance by Sieur de Villieu to hasten him to notify Monsieur le Comte de Frontenac. He departed on that errand on the thirty-first of July, and marchiug day and night, crossed five lakes, made twenty-three portages, and arrived on the fourth day of the following month at Fort Ammissoukauti,^[1] where Father Bigot was. The attendants of the said Sieur de Villieu were so tired and sick that he was obliged to take others in order to get to Quebec, where he arrived on the twenty-second. Not finding Monsieur Frontenac there, he left the Indians who were conducting him to take fresh men in order to get to Montroyal, where he arrived on the twenty-sixth of August.