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[44] CHAPTER IV.
CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNAL.
KNOW not when the three Agneronnons sent by
Monsieur Daillebonst reached the village of
Anniegu6, neither do I know the day or the
month of the arrival of the Onnontagueronnon
despatched by Monsieur de Maisonneufve to Onnontagu6;
but I know well that,—
On the 3rd of January of this year, 1658, three
Agneronnons — not the three that had been sent
home— brought to Kebec from Father Ondesonk —
that is, from Father Le Moine—a letter of which I
give a summary.
First, he said :
' *
The three Agneronnons visiting
you bear to Onontio—that is, to Monsieur the Governor—three
presents symbolizing the three follow-
ing articles, which they themselves will state to you.
The Elders speak through their mouths and say : i .
* We
have been [45] killed in the persons of the
Ondesonk is
French, whom we come to bury.' 2. '
alive, and is as free in our country as he would be in
*
yours.' 3. We come to ask for our nephews now
in your hands.' "
Secondly,
the Father added that two hundred
Agneronnons had started on a hunting expedition
toward Tadoussac ; that in the Spring they were to
make some canoes opposite that place, on the other
bank of the great River, which is fully ten leagues
wide there; and that then it was their purpose to