Another chief sacrificed another dog, with the addition of some tobacco.

In the prayer which accompanied these gifts he besought the snake, as before, not to avenge upon the Indians the insult which he had received from the Englishman.

"He assured the snake that I was _absolutely_ an Englishman, and of kin neither to him nor to them." "At the conclusion of this speech, an Indian, who sat near me, observed, that if we were drowned it would be for my fault alone, and that I ought myself to be sacrificed, to appease the angry manito; nor was I without apprehensions, that in case of extremity this would be my fate; but, happily for me, the storm at length abated, and we reached the island safely." The next day they arrived at the shore of Lake Ontario.

Here they remained two days to make canoes out of the bark of the elm tree, in which they might travel to Niagara.

For this purpose the Indians first cut down a tree, then stripped off the bark in one entire sheet of about eighteen feet in length, the incision being lengthwise.