. New France and New England. rons,Cahiague, the 17th of August. Feasts and war dances filledthe hours of waiting till all the bands were gathered, andthen, crossing Lake Simcoe, the Indians, accompanied by ahandful of Frenchmen under the intrepid Champlain, pushedon rapidly bylakes and the river Trent to Lake Ontario. Boldly venturing upon this inland sea in their frail craft,they safely reached the other shore. A few daysmarch brought them to the Iroquois village,^ where on thetheir first rash attack was successfully repelled, °^but at the sound of French muskets and the hissing of ^ [The si
. New France and New England. rons,Cahiague, the 17th of August. Feasts and war dances filledthe hours of waiting till all the bands were gathered, andthen, crossing Lake Simcoe, the Indians, accompanied by ahandful of Frenchmen under the intrepid Champlain, pushedon rapidly bylakes and the river Trent to Lake Ontario. Boldly venturing upon this inland sea in their frail craft,they safely reached the other shore. A few daysmarch brought them to the Iroquois village,^ where on thetheir first rash attack was successfully repelled, °^but at the sound of French muskets and the hissing of ^ [The situation of this fortified town of the Iroquois has been thesubject of no little discussion. For the various views, see Winsor, So NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND the bullets the pursuing Iroquois fell back and sought pro-tection within the palisades of their town. To enable an effective assault to be made upon thesedefences Champlain had a movable tower built, from whichsharp-shooters could pick off Iroquois behind the palisades;. VIEW OF IROQUOIS VILLAGE AND CHAMPLAIN TOWER and also large shields to protect the assailing party fromarrows and stones, in their efforts to set fire to the But the excitement of battle was too much for mUitary thcsc Undisciplined hordes. They threw away theengines shields, rent the air with cries which made it im-possible for Champlain to be heard, and in their haste lighted Na7-r. and Crit. Hist., iv. 125; Parkman, Pioneers of France in theNew World, p. 402.] j^ HI 1 K n DV PERE CHARLES UALLEMANT SVPERIEVR DE LA MIS- fion de Canadasjdc laCoai- pagnicde Ie svs. Enuoyee au Pere Hierofme tARcmantfonfrere^ de la mefme Compagnie Cu fontconcenus les mceurs& facons de vi* lire des Sauuages habirans de ce pais la; &? comme ilsfe comportcnr auec ics Chreftiens Francois qui y dcmeurent. fnfemble la defcriptio?j des vUles de ce(l£ contre^^
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