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{lead. The poor woman fuffered herfelf to be 

 led away, and was all in tears •, her relations 

 followed her with Very fad countenances •, one of 

 them feeing there was no pardon to be hoped 

 for, faid to the chief of the troop, " My mo- 

 *' ther-in-lazv dies through courage^ as /he has not 

 " ftruck the hlow'^ He propofed they fhould 

 wait whilft he went to fetch the murderer ; he 

 actually brought him into the affembly, where 

 the Chevalier d'Ernevillc was, and faid. See, 

 there is the guilty man, do what you pleafe with 

 him. The officer anfwered, that they ought to 

 do him. juflice •, and they immediately killed 

 himf. 



Juftice 



'^' Thus the Indians execute juftice; there is no need of 

 drawing up cafes ; all thefe forms are unknown ; the law is, 

 tliat he who has killed mull be killed again, unlefs it be 

 hy accident, as in a drunkennefs, in a fit of madnefs, or in 

 their exercifes. 



' t The relation of this ftory, is by no means favourable 

 to the French. They a6led upon a barbarous and cruel 

 principle, by bringing the mother of the guilty man 

 ?o a punilhment which ihe did not defcrve ; and had not her 

 fen on this occafion preferred filial duty to felf-prefervation, 

 the French Chevalier would have committed an inhuman 

 ?iftion,- by inflicling death oh an innocent peifon. The Inr 



dians. 



