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floor. The children now profited by the examples 

 of their parents, and amused themselves by placing 

 live coals and red-hot ashes on the naked bodies of 

 the prisoners, who, bound fast, and covered with 

 wounds and bruises which made every movement a 

 torture, were sometimes unable to shake them off. 



In the morning, they w^ere again placed on the 

 scaffold, where, during this and the two following 

 days, they remained exposed to the taunts of the 

 crowd. Then they were led in triumph to the sec- 

 ond Mohawk town, and afterwards to the third,^ 

 suffering at each a repetition of cruelties, the detail 

 of which would be as monotonous as revolting. 



In a house in the town of Teonontogen, Jogues 

 was hung by the wrists between two of the upright 

 poles which supported the structure, in such a 

 manner that his feet could not touch the ground; 

 and thus he remained for some fifteen minutes, in 

 extreme torture, until, as he was on the point of 

 swooning, an Indian, with an impulse of pity, cut 

 the cords and released him. While they were in 

 this town, four fresh Huron prisoners, just taken, 

 were brought in, and placed on the scaffold with 

 the rest. Jogues, in the midst of his pain and 

 exhaustion, took the opportunity to convert them. 



1 The Mohawks had but three towns. The first, and the lowest on 

 the river, was Osseruenon ; the second, two miles above, was Andagaron ; 

 and the third, Teonontogen : or, as Megapolensis, in his Sketch of the Mo- 

 hawks, writes the names, Asserue, Banagiro, and Thenondiogo. They all 

 seem to have been fortified in the Iroquois manner, and their united 

 population was thirty-five hundred, or somewhat more. At a later 

 period, 1720, there were still three towns, named respectively Teahton- 

 taioga, Ganowauga, and Ganeganaga. See the map in Morgan, League of 

 the Iroquois. 



