On the way thither he noticed the abundance of stags and bears, and, near the lake, of cranes, white and purple-brown.[28] [Footnote 28: The cranes of Canada--so often alluded to by the French explorers as "Grues"-- are of two species, _Grus canadensis_, with its plumage of a purple-grey, and _Grus americanus_, which is pure white (see p.

139).] On the southern shores of the lake[29] were large numbers of chestnut trees, "whose fruit was still in the burr.

The chestnuts are small but of a good flavour." The southern country was covered with forests, with very few clearings.

After crossing the Oneida River the Hurons captured eleven of the Senekas, four women, one girl, three boys, and three men.

The people had left the stockade in which their relations were living to go and fish by the lake shore.