his castle. He offered to carry our goods and to let us sleep and
remain in his house as long as we liked; and because he was
offering us so much I gave him a knife and two awls as a present,
and to the chief in whose house we had been I presented a knife
and a pair of scissors; and then we took our departure from this
castle, named Onekagoncka, and after going for half a league over
the ice we saw a village with only six houses, of the Canowarode;
but we did not enter it, because he said it was not worth while, and
after another half league we passed again a village where twelve
houses stood. It was named Schatsyerosy. These were like the
others, he saying they likewise were not worth while entering; and
after passing by great stretches of flat land, for another league or
league and a half, we came into this castle, at two good hours after
dark. I did not see much besides a good many graves. This castle
is named Canagere. It is built on a hill, without any palisades or
any defense. We found only seven men at home, besides a party of
old women and children. The chiefs of this castle, named Tonno-
satton and Tonewerot, were hunting; so we slept in the house of
Sickarus, as he had promised us; and we counted in his house 120
pieces of salable beaver skins that he captured with his own dogs.
Every day we ate beaver meat here. In this castle are sixteen houses,
50, 60, 70, or 80 paces long, and one of sixteen paces, and one of five
paces, containing a bear to be fattened. It had been in there upward of
three years, and was so tame that it took everything that was given to it
to eat.

December 17. Sunday we looked over our goods, and found a paper
filled with sulphur, and Jeronimus took some of it and threw it in the
fire. They saw the blue flame and smelled the smoke, and told us
they had the same stuff; and when Sickarus came they asked us to let