They fired several volleys of musketry They were answered in the same style from all the little craft of bark. and cheered incessantly. and M. de la Valtrie caused the guns of the Fort to be discharged at the same time, Verchere de M. transported with joy at the honors paid them also kept up a continual fire with Indians and the The commandants and officers received our shouts and acclamations which made every one rejoice. Missionary at the landing.

No sooner had he debarked than all the Algoquins and Nipissings of the

Lake came to embrace him, saying that they had been told that the English had arrested him, and had that news been confirmed they would soon have themselves relieved him. Finally when he returned to La Presentation, he was received with that affection, that tenderness which children would experience in recovering a father whom they had lost. War was no sooner declared in 1754 than the new children of God, of the King and of M. Picquet, thought only of giving fresh proofs of their fidelity and valor, as those of the Lake of the Two MounThe generals were indebted to M. Picquet for the destruction tains had done in the war preceding. His Indians distinon the river Corlac (Corlear) as on that of Choeguen. as well Forts the of all of La Presentation the warriors guished themselves especially at Fort George on Lake Ontario where alone with their bark canoes destroyed the English fleet commanded by Capt. Beccan who was made prisoner with a number of others and that in sight of the French army, commanded by M. de Villiers who was at the Isle Galop. The war parties which departed and returned continually, filled the Mission with so many prisoners that their numbers frequently surpassed that of the warriors, rendering it necessary to empty the villages and send them to Headquarters.