and Lake Champlain discovered in 1609.

[2] Now called the Richelieu River.

[3] Lake Champlain.

[4] The Adirondacks or the Green Mountains might have been here
referred to.

[5] Parkman, in his "Pioneers of France in the New World," adds to
this narrative the following: "At night the victors led out one of
the prisoners, told him that he was to die by fire, and ordered
him to sing his death-song, if he dared. Then they began the
torture, and presently scalped their victim alive, when Champlain,
sickening at the sight, begged leave to shoot him. They refused,
and he turned away in anger and disgust; on which they called him
back and told him to do as he pleased. He turned again and a shot
from his arquebuse put the wretch out of misery. The scene filled
him with horror; but, a few months later, on the Place de la
Grave, at Paris, he might have witnessed tortures equally
revolting and equally vindictive, inflicted on the regicide
Ravaillac by the sentence of grave and learned judges. [Ravaillac
was the assassin of Henry IV.]

"The allies made a prompt retreat from the scene of their triumph.
Three or four days brought them to the mouth of the Richelieu.
Here they separated; the Hurons and Algonquins made for the
Ottawa, their homeward route, each with a share of prisoners for
future torments. At parting they invited Champlain to visit their
towns, and aid them again in their wars, an invitation which the