He left two young French boys in charge of this Indian chief that they might learn the language of the country.

No further episode of the journey is chronicled until on September 11 the boats arrived at the foot of the rapids now called Lachine.

Cartier tells us that two leagues from the foot of the bottom fall was an Indian village called Tutonaguy, but he does not say whether or not this was the same place as the Hochelaga of his previous voyage.

The French left their boats and, conducted by the Indians, walked along the portage path that led past the rapids.

There were large encampments of natives beside the second fall, and they received the French with every expression of good-will.