Chrétien and his adoptive ‘father’, Le Vicomte de Châtellerault, travel to Fort Frontenac by canoe, down the St. Laurence river. There, they meet Le Marquis de Denonville, Governor of New France. The Governor welcomes them, saying they have arrived just in time for their new, unusual guests: fifty chiefs from the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois, sworn enemies of the French. Read about it here.