[Illustration: Champlain [This follows the Hamel painting after the Moncornet portrait, as given in Dr. Shea’s _Charlevoix_, vol. ii., and _Le Clercq_, i. 65. Cf. Slafter’s _Champlain_, vol. i., for a statement regarding the portraits of Champlain. Mr. Slafter prefers a woodcut by Roujat, and thinks that Hamel worked upon a sketch made from the Moncornet picture, which failed to preserve the strength of the original. The autograph of Champlain is rare. Dufossé in 1883 advertised a manuscript contract signed by him and his wife for 190 francs.—ED.]] After numerous delays and adjustments and readjustments of plans, when the expedition was fairly afloat on the River Richelieu it consisted of sixty warriors in bark canoes, clad in their usual armor, accompanied by Champlain and two French arquebusiers. Proceeding up the river, they entered the lake, coursed its western shore, and moved tardily along. At the expiration of nearly three weeks,—on the 29th of July, 1609,—in the shade of the evening, they discovered a flotilla of bark canoes containing about two hundred Iroquois warriors of the Mohawk tribe, who were searching for their enemies, the tribes of the north, whom they hoped to find on this old war-path. Early the next morning, on the present site of Ticonderoga, near where the French subsequently erected Fort Carillon, whose ruins are still visible, the two parties met.[380] [Illustration: DEFEAT OF IROQUOIS AT LAKE CHAMPLAIN. [A fac-simile of Champlain’s engraving in his edition of 1613. Key: _A_ (wanting), the fort; _B_, enemy; _C_, oak-bark canoes of the enemy, holding ten, fifteen, or eighteen men each; _D_, two chiefs, who were killed; _E_, an enemy wounded by Champlain’s musket; _F_ (wanting), Champlain; _G_ (wanting), two musketeers; _H_, canoes of the allies, Montagnais, Ochastaiguins, and Algonquins, who are above; _I_ (also on the), birch-bark canoes of our allies; _K_ (wanting), woods.—ED.]]