THE FALL OF NEW FRANCE IOI 
with swift and well-aimed blows crushed in the skulls 
of ten of their sleeping enemies. One little boy they 
spared; one wrinkled squaw awoke betimes and fled 
screeching through the darkness. The ten dead sav- 
ages Mrs. Dustin scalped, and getting into a bark 
canoe the three doughty companions floated down 
the Merrimac till they reached the village of Haver- 
hill. The fame of their exploit went far and wide 
throughout the land. A bounty of 450 was paid 
them for the ten scalps, and the governor of distant 
Maryland sent them a present in guerdon of their 
prowess. The ghastly story has never been forgot- 
ten, but is told to-day to all school children, though 
school children are not always taught to associate 
these incidents with Count Frontenac, or with the 
expulsion of the Stuart kings from Great Britain. 
Such barbarous warfare as this does not redound to 
the credit of Frontenac, though personally he seems to 
have been humane and generous according to the 
standards of his age and country. The delightful 
Jesuit historian, Charlevoix, recounts these massacres 
of the heretical Puritans with emphatic approval. In 
New England they awakened intense horror and in- 
dignation. It was resolved to attack Canada. In 
1690, after the massacres at Salmon Falls and Fort 
Loyal, two thousand Massachusetts militia, under Sir 
William Phips, actually sailed up the St. Lawrence 
and laid siege to Quebec; while Winthrop, of Con- 
necticut, started from Albany to create a diversion on 
the side of Montreal. But these amateur generals 
were no match for Frontenac, and both expeditions 
returned home crestfallen with disastrous defeat. 
Massachusetts, loaded with a debt of fifty thousand 
