To help them in this respect they played hymn and psalm tunes on musical instruments.

At last the Onondagas were gorged to repletion, and sank into a stertorous slumber at sunset.

Whilst they slept, the Jesuits, their converts, and Radisson got into the already prepared canoes and paddled quickly down the Oswego River far beyond pursuit.
Radisson next joined his brother-in-law, Medard Chouart, and after narrowly escaping massacre by the Iroquois (once more on the warpath along the Ottawa River) reached the northern part of Lake Huron, and Green Bay on the north-west of Lake Michigan.

From Green Bay they travelled up the Fox River and across a portage to the Wisconsin, which flows into the Mississippi.

Down this river they sped, meeting people of the great Siou confederation and Kri (Cree) Indians, these last an Algonkin nation roaming in the summertime as far north as Hudson's Bay, until at length they reached the actual waters of the Mississippi, first of all white men.