^aa Axahitt^a tale. -;6.9. 



h^bitatioa. Full of this notien, he ran irice;s.!n!,Iy ircr.-. 

 one place to another. Hc^erceived .^j|j|f^#pqh. where :".,- 

 battle still continued, a prisoner tied to a stake', and having 

 all about him the apparatus of death ; that is, combustibles 

 %r burning him by a slow fire. The chief of the Hurons 

 flies to the wretclied captive, breaks his bonds — kiaows him 

 —and embraces him with transports of joy, — It was Ouabi. 

 This brave savage had preferred the lofs of Ms life to 

 that of his Uberry. He was scarcely cured of his wounds, 

 when lilc was offered him, on condition of remaining a 

 slavej but Jje had chosen death, determined to procure it 

 if refused to -hiiia. The^ Iroquois were a people that would 

 spare him that troiiblw; and one moment later his com- 

 panions could not Iiave saved him. 



After having dispersed, or made slaves of the remains of 

 the Iroquois in that^'^arter, the Huron army marched 

 hom«. St Castins wanteds to give .up the command of it 

 to Ouabi, which he refused. On the way, he informed 

 him of Azakia's purpose to die, persuaded that he was not 

 alive, and that he had required her to follow him > he ac- 

 quainted him also of the poison fhe had prepared on that 

 account, and of the delay he had obtained from her with 

 great difficulty. He spoke with a tcndernefs and emotion 

 that deeply affected the good Ouabi, who called to mind 

 some things he had not much attended to at the time they 

 happened ; but he then let him know nothing of what he 

 Intended — They arrive. Azakia, who had another dream, 

 fancied this return as a signal of her fate. But how great 

 was her surprise, to see, among the number of the 

 living, the hulhand fhe was going to meet in the abode of 

 spirits ! 



At first flie remained motioiilefs and mute ; but her joy 

 s6on cxprefsed itself by lively carefses and long discourses. 

 Ouabi received the one, and interrupted the others. Afr 

 terwards, addre.'sing himself to St Castins ; " Celari^^' 



