1660.] A HURON TRAITOR. 419 



party, and, seeing that lie could not escape, formed 

 on the instant a villanous plan to save himself. 

 He ran towards the enemy, crying out, that he had 

 long been looking for them and was delighted to 

 see them ; that his nation, the Hurons, had come 

 to an end ; and that henceforth his country was the 

 country of the Iroquois, where so many of his kins- 

 men and friends had been adopted. He had come, 

 he declared, with no other thought than that of 

 joining them, and turning Iroquois, as they had 

 done. The Iroquois demanded if he had come 

 alone. He answered, " No," and said, that, in order 

 to accomplish his purpose, he had joined an Algon- 

 quin war-party who were in the woods not far 

 off. The Iroquois, in great delight, demanded to 

 be shown where they were. This Judas, as the 

 Jesuits call him, at once complied ; and the Algon- 

 quins were surprised by a sudden onset, and routed 

 with severe loss. The treacherous Hm'on was well 

 treated by the Iroquois, who adopted him into their 

 nation. Not long after, he came to Canada, and, 

 with a view, as it was thought, to some further 

 treachery, rejoined the French. A sharp cross- 

 questioning put him to confusion, and he presently 

 confessed his guilt. He was sentenced to death ; 

 and the sentence was executed by one of his own 

 countrymen, who split his head with a hatchet.^ 



In the course of the summer, the French at 

 Three Eivers became aware that a band of Iroquois 

 was prowling in the neighborhood, and sixty men 

 went out to meet them. Far from retreating, the 



1 Ragueneau, Relation, 1660, 30. 



