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designs of his to Heaven.
compatriots, and soon afterward went
On the 9th of the same month of August, twenty
Agneronnon Iroquois landed at Quebec; and there
was emulation as to which party should carry off to
its own country the remnants of the poor Huron
Nation. Both the upper and the lower Iroquois were
inviting them, with the fairest promises [33] in the
world, while the sole intention of them all was to
destroy these people.
On the nth appeared Monsieur Bourdon's bark.
It had sailed down the great River toward the North,
and proceeded as far as the 55th degree, where it met
a great field of ice, which made it turn back, after
losing two Hurons, who had been taken as guides.
The Eskimaux, Savages of the North, had slain
them, and had injured a Frenchman with three
arrow-shots and a knife-cut.
On the 2ist, some Hurons, joining the Agneronnons
of whom we have just spoken, embarked at
Kebec to go and dwell in the country of the latter,
not knowing that captivity awaited them.
On the 26th, Father le Moine followed them with
some other Hurons, taking home a young Agneronnon
Iroquois who had gone to France, and had been
sent back by us to Kebec, whither he had been recalled.
On the 3rd of September, the Onnontagueronnons,
who had lingered around the French settlements,
[34] sent two of their Men to the Hurons of Kebec,
to urge their adoption of Onnontagu6 as their coun-
try, giving them a thousand assurances that they
would be very welcome. There was, as I said, a
rivalry as to who should obtain the remnant of this
poor nation. Now, although they did not know