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threw his arms about his neck. The Iroquois 

 dragged him away, beat him with theu' fists and 

 war-dubs till he was senseless, and, when he re- 

 vived, lacerated his fingers with their teeth, as they 

 had done those of Couture. Then they turned 

 upon Goupil, and treated him with the same fero- 

 city. The Huron prisoners were left for the present 

 unharmed. More of them were brought in every 

 moment, till at length the number of captives 

 amounted in all to twenty-two, while three Hurons 

 had been killed in the fight and pursuit. The Iro- 

 quois, about seventy in number, now embarked with 

 theu' prey ; but not until they had knocked on the 

 head an old Huron, whom Jogues, with his mangled 

 hands, had just baptized, and who refused to leave 

 the place. Then, under a burning sun, they crossed 

 to the spot on which the town of Sorel now stands, 

 at the mouth of the river Richelieu, where they 

 encamped.^ 



Theu' course was southward, up the River Kiche- 

 lieu and Lake Champlam ; thence, by way of Lake 



1 The above, with much of what follows, rests on three documents. 

 The first is a long letter, written in Latin, bj Jogues, to the Father 

 Provincial at Paris. It is dated at Rensselaerswyck (Albany), Aug. 5, 

 1643, and is preserved in the Societas Jesu Militans of Tanner, and in the 

 Moi-tes Illustres et Gesta eorum de Societate Jesu, etc., of Alegambe. There 

 is a Frencli translation in Martin's Bressani, and an English translation, 

 by Mr. Shea, in the New York Hist. Coll. of 1857. The second document 

 is an old manuscript, entitled Naive' de la Prise da Pere Jogues. It was 

 written by the Jesuit Buteux, from the lips of Jogues. Father Martin, 

 S. J., in wliose custody it was, kindly permitted me to have a copy made 

 from it. Besides these, there is a long account in the Relation des Hurons 

 of 164:7, and a briefer one in that of 1644. All these narratives show the 

 strongest internal evidence of truth, and are perfectly concurrent. They 

 are also supported by statements of escaped Huron prisoners, and by sev- 

 eral letters and memoirs of the Dutch at Rensselaerswyck. 



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