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Romulus as under Julius Caesar. But, after all, small
though the school was, the pupils did not fail to
receive him in three — languages, which pleased him
greatly, as also a large company of French and
Savages who were present on this occasion.
On the I St of the month of August, the Savages
went to salute Monsieur the Governor, and presented
him with their gifts, as a sign of their joy and of the
hope which they entertained of being delivered, by
his means, from the ills inflicted upon them by their
enemies. Monsieur the Vicomte paid them his com-
pliments, and then gave them a feast, after the
custom of the country.
Some time afterward,— receiving information that
two Iroquois had come to Three Rivers to make some
proposition to Sieur de la Poterie; and believing,
with reason, that they were advance- scouts of some
army, and were coming to spy out the condition of
this place, its defense, and the attitude of its inhabitants,—
he started out with 150 Frenchmen and 100
Savages, and went up as far as Three Rivers. But not
finding {(^^1 anything in sight, after settling Monsieur
de la Poterie as special Governor over that place, he
pushed on as far as the Islands of Lake St. Pierre,
halted for some time on the old site of Fort Riche-
lieu, and, the wind not permitting him to ascend the
river to visit Montreal, returned to Kebec with all
his militia. ^^
On the 14th of the same month, a score of Agneronnons
who were opposite the Fort of Three Rivers,
on the other side of the great River, and who were
well aware that Monsieur the Governor had arrived
there, went down in the night toward Kebec, and,
after prowling stealthily about our settlements to