157. _Cygnes_, swans. Probably the Trumpeter Swan, _Cygnus buccinator_. They were especially found in Sagard's time about Lake Nipissing. "Mais pour des Cignes, qu'ils appellent _Horhev_, il y en a principalement vers les Epicerinys." _Vide Le Grand Voyage av Pays des Hurons_ par Fr. Gabriel Sagard, Paris, 1632, p. 303. 158. _Grues blanches_. _Vide antea_, n. 145. 159. _Houstardes_. _Vide antea_, note 32. 160. _Mauuis_, Song-Thrush. Doubtless the Robin, _Turdus migratorius_. 161. _Allouettes_, larks. Probably the Brown Lark, _Anthus ludovicianus_. Found everywhere in North America. 162. _Beccassines_. Probably the American Snipe, _Gallinago Wilsonii_. 163. _Oyes_, geese. The common Wild Goose, _Branta Canadensis_, or it may include all the species taken collectively. For the several species found in Canada, _vide antea_, note 32. 164. _Les loups_. The American Wolf, _Lupus occidentalis_. 165. The thirty-eight days during which they were there would include the whole period from the time they began to make their preparations on the 28th of October on the shores of Lake Ontario till they began their homeward journey on the 4th of December. _Vide antea_, p. 137; _postea_, p. 143. 166. The author here refers to the chief D'Arontal, whose guest he was. _Vide antea_, 137. Cf. also Quebec ed. 1632, p. 928. 167. _Trainees de bois_, a kind of sledge. The Indian's sledge was made of two pieces of board, which, with his stone axe and perhaps with the aid of fire, he patiently manufactured from the trunks of trees. The boards were each about six inches wide and six or seven feet long, curved upward at the forward end and bound together by cross pieces. The sides were bordered with strips of wood, which served as brackets, to which was fastened the strap that bound the baggage upon the sledge. The load was dragged by a rope or strap of leather passing round the breast of the savage and attached to the end of the sledge. The sledge was so narrow that it could be drawn easily and without impediment wherever the savage could thread his way through the pathless forests. The journey from their encampment northeast of Kingston on Lake Ontario to the capital of the Hurons was not less in a straight line than a hundred and sixty miles. Without a pathway, in the heart of winter, through water and melting snow, with their heavy burdens, the hardship and exhaustion can hardly be exaggerated. 168. Namely at Cahiague. In the issue of 1632, Champlain says they arrived on the 23d day of the month. _Vide_ Quebec ed, p. 929. Leaving on the 4th and travelling nineteen days, as stated above, they would arrive on the 23d December. 169. Probably the 4th of January.