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were spoken at Manhattan.^ The colonists were in 

 the midst of a bloody Indian war, brought on by 

 their own besotted cruelty ; and while Jogues was at 

 the fort, some forty of the Dutchmen were killed on 

 the neighboring farms, and many barns and houses 

 burned.^ 



The Director-General, with a humanity that was 

 far from usual with him, exchanged Jogues's squalid 

 and savage dress for a suit of Dutch cloth, and gave 

 him passage in a small vessel which was then about 

 to sail. The voyage was rough and tedious ; and 

 the passenger slept on deck or on a coil of ropes, 

 suffering greatly from cold, and often drenched by 

 the waves that broke over the vessel's side. At 

 length she reached Falmouth, on the southern coast 

 of England, when all the crew went ashore for a 

 carouse, leaving Jogues alone on board. A boat 

 presently came alongside with a gang of despera- 

 does, who boarded her, and rifled her of everything 

 valuable, threatened Jogues with a pistol, and 

 robbed him of his hat and coat. He obtained some 

 assistance from the crew of a French ship in the 

 harbor, and, on the day before Christmas, took pas- 

 sage in a small coal vessel for the neighboring coast' 

 of Brittany. In the following afternoon he was set 

 on shore a little to the north of Brest, and, seeing a 

 peasant's cottage not far off, he approached it, and 

 asked the way to the nearest church. The peasant 

 and his wife, as the narrative gravely tells us, mis- 



^ Jogues, Novum Belgium. 



2 This war was with Algonquin tribes of the neighborhood. ^- See 

 O'Callaghan, New Netherland, I., Chap. III. 



