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interval I saw several of my countrymen fall, and 

 more than one struggling between the knees of an 

 Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped 

 him while yet living. 



" At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing 

 resistance made to the enemy, and sensible, of 

 course, that no effort of my own unassisted arm 

 could avail against four hundred Indians, I thought 

 only of seeking shelter amid the slaughter which 

 was raging. I observed many of the Canadian 

 inhabitants of the fort calmly looking on, neither 

 opposing the Indians nor suffering injury ; and 

 from this circumstance, I conceived a hope of find- 

 ing security in their houses. 



" Between the yard door of my own house and 

 that of M. Langlade,^ my next neighbor, there was 

 only a low fence, over which I easily climbed. At 

 my entrance, I found the whole family at the win- 

 dows, gazing at the scene of blood before them. 

 I addressed myself immediately to M. Langlade, 

 begging that he would put me into some place of 

 safety until the heat of the affair should be over ; 

 an act of charity by which he might, perhaps, pre- 

 serve me from the general massacre ; but while I 

 uttered my petition, M. Langlade, who had looked 

 for a moment at me, turned again to the window, 



1 Charles Langlade, who is praised by Etherington, though spoken 

 of in equivocal terms by Henry, was the son of a Frenchman of good 

 family and an Ottawa squaw. He was born at Mackinaw in 1724, and 

 served with great reputation as a partisan officer in the old French war. 

 He and his father, Augustin Langlade, were the first permanent settlers 

 within the present State of Wisconsin. He is said to have saved Ether- 

 ington and Leslie from the torture. See the Recollections ofAngiistin Grig- 

 nan, his grandson, in Collections of the Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin, III. 197. 



