136. Flamens. The Dutch were at this time on the Hudson, qengaged in the fur trade with the savages. Vide History of the State of New York by John Romeyn Brodhead, New York, 1853. pp. 38-65. History of New Netherland or New York under the Dutch, by E. B. O'Callaghan, New York, 1846, pp. 67-77.
137. Their enemies were the Iroquois.
138. Chouontouaroüon, another name for Entouhoronon.
139. Lake Couchiching, a small sheet of water into which pass by a small
outlet the waters of Lake Simcoe.
140. Lake Simcoe. Laverdière says the Indian name of this lake was
Ouentaronk, and that it was likewise called Lac aux Claies.
141. Étienne Brûlé. Vide postea, p. 208.
142. Dans ces lacs. From Lake Chouchiching, coasting along the northeastern shore of Lake Simcoe, they would make five or six leagues in reaching a point nearest to Sturgeon Lake.
143. Undoubtedly Sturgeon Lake.
144. From their entrance of Sturgeon Lake to the point where they reached Lake Ontario, at the eastern limit of Amherst Island, the distance is, in its winding and circuitous course, not far from Champlain's estimate, viz. sixty-four leagues. That part of the river above Rice Lake is the Otonabee; that below is known as the Trent.
145. Gruës The white crane, Grus Americanus Adult plumage pure white Coues's Key to North American Birds, Boston, 1872, p 271 Charlevoix says, "We have cranes of two colors, some white and others gris de lin," that is a purple or lilac color. This latter species is the brown crane, Grus Canadensis. "Plumage plumbeous gray." Coues. Vide Charlevoix's Letters, London. 1763, p 83.