64 TRAVELS THROUGH 



houfe ; and immediately they fell upon the 

 French every where at the fame time. 



Mefif. de Roily, chief fadors of the Weft In- 

 dia company, were killed firft. M. de la Loire 

 des Urfins houfe made fome refiftance ; his fer- 

 vants killed eight Natches before they were over- 

 powered. M. des Urfins himfelf, who juft was 

 taking a ride, but returned at the firfl firing of 

 the guns, was flopped by a troop of Indians : 

 he defended himfelf very bravely, killed four of 

 them, and died pierced with wounds. This is 

 all that the cntreprife coft the ^Indians : they 

 murdered near two thoufand perfons j only 

 twenty-five or twenty-fix negroes efcaped, and 

 moft of them were wounded. One hundred and 

 fifty children, ninety women, and as many ne- 

 groes, were taken prifoners, in hopes of felling 

 them to the Englifh in Carolina, 



During this carnage the great Sun was quiet- 

 ly fitting under one of the India company's 

 ware-houfes •, they brought him firft of all the 

 head of the governor, then thofe of the chief 

 Frenchmen, which he ordered to be ranged 

 round the firft. All the others were put in 

 heaps ; the corpfcs were not buried, and be- 

 came the prey of vultures; they cut open the 

 bodies of women big with child, #ind murdered 



almoft 



