CHAPTER X^II. 



1641-1646. 

 THE IROQUOIS. BRES5ANI. DE NOUE. 



Wab. — Distress xsd Tzeroe. — Richelieu. — Battle. — Euix of 

 LfDiAJf Tbibes. — Mutual Destruction-. — Iboquois and Al- 



GOXQUIX. — AtBOCITIES. — FeIGHTFUL POSITIOX OF THE pREKCH. 



— Joseph Bressaiji. — His Capture. — His Treatment. — His 

 Escape. — An-ke de Noue. — His Nocturxal Jourxet. — His 

 Death. 



Two forces were battlins: for the mastery of 

 Canada: on the one side, Christ, the Vh-gin, and 

 the -^Vngels, with their agents, the priests ; on the 

 other, the Devil, and his tools, the Iroquois. Such 

 at least was the view of the case held in full 

 faith, not by the Jesuit Fathers alone, but by most 

 of the colonists. Xever before had the fiend put 

 forth such rage, and in the L'oquois he found 

 instruments of a nature not uncongenial with his 

 own. 



At Quebec. Three Kivers, Montreal, and the 

 Httle fort of Richelieu, that is to say. in all Canada, 

 no man could hunt, fish, till the fields, or cut a 

 tree in the forest, without peril to his scalp. The 

 Iroquois were everywhere, and nowhere. A veil. 



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