On the 4th of _June_, there arriv’d four Canoes, commanded by Monsieur _de Porneuf_, coming from _Montreal_, and bringing News from the Marques _d’Hennonville_, and Orders to send to the Settlements which were towards the Lake _des Puans_ and others higher up, towards the Source of the River _Colbert_, to know the Posture and Condition of Affairs. We prepar’d to be gone with the two Canoes. Monsieur _Cavelier_ bought another, to carry our Baggage, and left Part of his Furs with a Merchant, who gave him a Note to receive Money at _Montreal_. I did the same with those few Furs I had, the rest of them having been left at _Micilimaquinay_.
We took Leave of the _Jesuits_, and set out in four Canoes, _viz._ two belonging to Monsieur _de Porneuf_, and two to Monsieur _Cavelier_, one of which had been brought from Fort _Lewis_, and the other bought, as I have just now said, we being twenty-nine of us in those four Canoes. We sail’d on till the 24th, when Monsieur _de Porneuf_ left us to go to St. _Mary’s_ Fall, to carry the Orders given him. The 25th, we got out of the Lake of the _Islinois_, to enter that of the _Hurons_, on the Banks whereof stands the Village, call’d _Tessalon_, where Monsieur _de Porneuf_ came again to us, the 27th, with a Canoe of the Natives, and with him we held on our Way.
We proceeded to _Chebonany_ the 30th of _June_, and the 3d of _July_, enter’d the _French_ River, where we were forc’d several Times to carry our Canoes to avoid the Falls and the rapid Streams, observing as we went a barren and dry Country, full of Rocks, on which there grow Cedars and Fir Trees, which take Root in the Clefts of those Rocks.
The 5th, we enter’d upon the little Lake of _Nipicingue_, adjoining to a Nation of that Name. We got out of it again the 7th, and enter’d upon the great River, where, after having pass’d the great Fall, we arriv’d the 13th, at the Point of the Island of _Montreal_. We landed at a Village call’d _la Chine_, which had belong’d to the late Monsr. _de la Sale_. Monsr. _Cavelier_ set out the 14th, for _Montreal_, where we came to him the 17th.
At _Montreal_ we found the Marques _d’ Hennonville_, Monsieur _de Noroy_ the Intendant and other Gentlemen, to whom we gave an Account of our long and painful Travels, with the Particulars of what we had seen, which they listned to with Satisfaction, but without mentioning Monsieur _de la Sale’s_ Death. We told them the Occasion of our going over into _France_, and they approv’d of it, being of Opinion with us, that we ought to hasten our Departure as much as possible.