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and drove him before them to the village, where 

 they made him sit on a bench. A whooping, 

 screeching mob of savages was instantly about him, 

 and a hundred voices clamored together in dispute 

 as to what should be done with him. Godefroy 

 stood by him with a courageous fidelity that re- 

 deemed his past rascalities. He urged a nephew 

 of Pontiac, who was present, to speak for the 

 prisoner. The young Indian made a bold harangue 

 to the crowd ; and Godefroy added that, if Morris 

 were killed, the English would take revenge on 

 those who w^ere in their power at Detroit. A 

 Miami chief, called the Swan, now declared for 

 the Englishman, untied his arms, and gave him a 

 pipe to smoke ; whereupon another chief, called 

 the White Cat, snatched it from him, seized him, 

 and bound him fast by the neck to a post. Naked, 

 helpless, and despairing, he saw the crowd gather- 

 ing around to torture him. "I had not the small- 

 est hope of life," he says, " and I remember that I 

 conceived myself as if going to plunge into a gulf, 

 vast, immeasurable ; and that, a few moments after, 

 the thought of torture occasioned a sort of torpor 

 and insensibility. I looked at Godefroy, and, seeing 

 him exceedingly distressed, I said what I could to 

 encourage him ; but he desired me not to speak. 

 I supposed it gave offence to the savages, and there- 

 fore was silent ; when Pacanne, chief of the Miami 

 nation, and just out of his minority, having mounted 

 a horse and crossed the river, rode up to me. 

 When I heard him calling to those about me, and 

 felt his hand behind my neck, I thought he was 



