1648.] ST. JOSEPH DESTROYED. 377 



ration of martyrdom, they stopped and stared in 

 amazement ; then recovering themselves, bent their 

 bows, and showered him with a volley of arrows, 

 that tore through his robes and his flesh. A gun- 

 shot followed ; the ball pierced his heart, and he 

 fell dead, gasping the name of Jesus. They rushed 

 upon him with yells of triumph, stripped him 

 naked, gashed and hacked his lifeless body, and, 

 scooping his blood in their hands, bathed their 

 faces in it to make them brave. The town was in 

 a blaze ; when the flames reached the church, they 

 flung the priest into it, and both were consumed 

 together.^ 



Teanaustaye was a heap of ashes, and the victors 

 took up then' march with a train of nearly seven 

 hundred prisoners, many of whom they killed on 

 the way. Many more had been slain in the town 

 and the neighboring forest, where the pursuers 

 hunted them down, and where women, crouching 

 for refuge among thickets, were betrayed by the 

 cries and wailing of their infants. 



The triumph of the Iroquois did not end here ; 

 for a neighboring fortified town, included within 

 the circle of Daniel's mission, shared the fate of 

 Teanaustaye. Never had the Huron nation re- 

 ceived such a blow. 



1 Ragueneau, Relation des Hurons, 1649, 3-5; Bressani, Relation 

 Ab^egee, 247 ; Du Creux, Historia Canadensis, 624 ; Tanner, Societas Jesu 

 Militans, 531 ; Marie de I'lncarnation, Lettre aux Ursulines de Tours, 

 Quebec, 1649. 



Daniel was born at Dieppe, and was forty-eight years old at the time 

 of his death. He had been a Jesuit from the age of twenty. 



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