. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 373 A month later L,a Salle himself visited theSenecas, approach- ing- them from Irondequoit as Galinee had done. He spent his time in the village of "Tagarondies" (*1.) Preliminary to the punitive expedition directed by M. De la Barre, Governor of New France against the Iroquois in 1682, the Sieur D'Orvilliers reconnoitered the Seneca country and the gov- ernor stated (*2) that he had made a "faithful and exact plan" of their two principal villages. Of this
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 373 A month later L,a Salle himself visited theSenecas, approach- ing- them from Irondequoit as Galinee had done. He spent his time in the village of "Tagarondies" (*1.) Preliminary to the punitive expedition directed by M. De la Barre, Governor of New France against the Iroquois in 1682, the Sieur D'Orvilliers reconnoitered the Seneca country and the gov- ernor stated (*2) that he had made a "faithful and exact plan" of their two principal villages. Of this no copy is From Map in Hennepin's Louisianne, Nuremburg, 1687. Marshall Library, Buffalo Historical Society. An official enumeration of the villages was made in great detail by the Marquis de Denonville, who had succeeded De la Barre in 1685 as Governor of Canada, and who, in 1687 invaded the territory of the Senecas at the head of the most formidable puni- tive expedition ever sent by the French against the Iroquois. In his report he named the villages which had been destroyed by his force. He entered the country from Irondequoit and first reached "Gannagora," whence he sent an expedition to surround and capture a small fort nearby. Thence he marched to "Gannon- garae, Totiakto and Gannondata," all of which he destroyed. In his report he identifies the Jesuit mission stations when he ex- *l Margry, Vol. 1, 127, quoted by Marshall. *2 Doc. Hist. New York, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Buffalo, N. Y. : Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
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