Excerpt from History of Washington Co;, New York: Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers On the fourth day of July, 1609, Samuel Champlain, the adventurous Frenchman who had founded the colony of Canada, discovered and entered the lake which still bears his name. He was accompanied by two Frenchmen and by sixty Huron Indians, whose cause he had espoused, and with whom he was on his way to attack their ancient ene mies, the Iroquois. The little army occupied twenty-four canoes, and with these they pushed on swiftly up the lake during the fourth and fifth days of July. Being now arrived in the vicinity of the locality where the [lawns expected to find their foes, the former adopted especial precautions, apparently with a view to surprise the enemy. They paddled on during the whole night of the fifth, but lay concealed on the shore all day of the sixth. At dusk they again set forth, and at ten o'clock at night discovered a war-party of Iroquois, also in canoes, near the western shore of the lake; The latter immediately went on shore, and with their' stone axes began to how down trees for a fortification, while Champlain and his [litmus remained on the lake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.