uth and threw it down; at the same time
he ran off like made through fear. Other men then went to the otter,
and then there took place such foolery that it was a wonder to see.
Yes; they commenced to throw fire and eat fire, and kept scattering hot
ashes and red-hot coals in such a way that I ran out of the house.
To-day another beaver skin was presented to me.

January 5. I bought four dried salmon and two pieces of bear bacon
that was about nine inches thick; and we saw thicker, even. They gave
us beans cooked with bear bacon to eat to-day, and further nothing
particular happened.

January 6. Nothing particular than that I was shown a parcel of flint
stones wherewith they make fire when they are in the forest. Those
stones would do very well for firelock guns.

January 7.--We received a letter from Marten Gerritsen, dated from the
last of December; it was brought by a Sinneken that arrived from our
fort. He told us that our people grew very uneasy about our not coming
home, and that they thought we had been killed. We ate fresh salmon
only two days caught, and we were robbed to-day of six and a half hands
of seawan that we never saw again.

January 8. Aarenias came to me to say that he wanted to go with me to
the fort and take all his skins to trade. Jeronimus tried to sell his
coat here, but he could not get rid of it.

January 9. During the evening the Onondagas came. There were six old
men and four women. They were very tired from the march, and brought
with them some bear skins. I came to meet them, and thanked them that
they came to visit us; and they welcomed me, and because it was very
late I went home.

January 10. Jeronimus burned the greater part of his pantaloons, that
dropped in the fire during the night, and the chief's mother gave him
cloth to repair it, and Willem Tomassen repaired it.

January 11. At ten o'clock in the morning the savages came to me and
invited me to come to the house where the Onondagans sat in council.
"They will give you presents"; and I went there with Jeronimus; took
our pistols with us and sat alongside of them, near an old man of the
name of Canastogeera, about 55 years of age; and he said: "Friends, I
have come here to see you and to talk to you;" wherefore we thanked
him, and after they had sat in council for a long time an interpreter
came to me and gave me give pieces of beaver skin because we had come
into their council. I took the beaver skins and