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it on her children, and that it was better that I 

 should die than they. M. Langlade resisted, at 

 first, this sentence of his wife, but soon suffered 

 her to prevail, informing the Indians that he had 

 been told I was in his house ; that I had come 

 there without his knowledge, and that he would 

 put me into their hands. This was no soonei 

 expressed than he began to ascend the stairs, the 

 Indians following upon his heels. 



" I now resigned myself to the fate with which 

 I was menaced ; and, regarding every effort at 

 concealment as vain, I rose from the bed, and 

 presented myself full in view to the Indians, who 

 were entering the room. They were all in a state 

 of intoxication, and entirely naked, except about 

 the middle. One of them, named Wenniway, 

 whom I had previously known, and who was 

 upwards of six feet in height, had his entire face 

 and body covered with charcoal and grease, only 

 that a white spot, of two inches in diameter, encir- 

 cled either eye. This man, walking up to me, 

 seized me, with one hand, by the collar of the coat, 

 while in the other he held a large carving-knife, as 

 if to plunge it into my breast ; his eyes, meanwhile, 

 were fixed steadfastly on mine. At length, after 

 some seconds of the most anxious suspense, he 

 dropped his arm, saying, ' I won't kill you ! ' To 

 this he added, that he had been frequently engaged 

 in wars against the English, and had brought away 

 many scalps ; that, on a certain occasion, he had 

 lost a brother, whose name was Musinigon, and that 

 I should be called after him. 



