414 FRONTENAC ATTACKS THE ONONDAGAS. [1696. 



you dogs of Frenchmen, how to endure pain ; and 

 you, dogs of dogs, their Indian allies, think what 

 you will do when you are burned like me." * 



Yauclreuil and his detachment returned within 

 three days, after destroying Oneida, with all the 

 growing corn, and seizing a number of chiefs as 

 hostages for the fulfilment of the demands of 

 Frontenac. There was some thought of marching 

 on Cayuga, but the governor judged it to be in- 

 expedient ; and, as it would be useless to chase the 

 fugitive Onondagas, nothing remained but to re- 

 turn home. 2 



While Frontenac was on his inarch, Governor 



1 Relation de ce qui s'est passe", etc., 1695, 1696 ; La Potherie, III. 279. 

 Callieres and the author of the Relation of 1682-1712 also speak of the 

 extraordinary fortitude of the victim. The Jesuits say that it was not 

 the Christian Indians who insisted on burning him, but the French 

 themselves, " qui voulurent absolument qu'il fut brule a petit feu, ce 

 qu'ils executerent eux-memes. Un Jesuite le confessa et l'assista a la 

 mort, l'encourageant a souffrir courageusement et chre'tiennement les.tour- 

 mens." Relation de 1696 (Shea), 10. This writer adds that, when Fron- 

 tenac heard of it, he ordered him to be spared ; but it was too late. 

 Charlevoix misquotes the old Stoic's last words, which were, according 

 to the official Relation of 1695-6 : " Je te remercie mais tu aurais bien 

 du achever de me faire mourir par le feu. Apprenez, chiens de Francois, 

 a souflfrir, et vous sauvages leurs allies, qui etes les chiens des chiens, 

 souvenez vous de ce que vous devez faire quand vous serez en pareil 

 etat que moi." 



- 2 On the expedition against the Onondagas, Callieres au Ministre, 20 

 Oct., 1696; Frontenac au Ministre, 25 Oct., 1696; Frontenac et Champigny 

 au Ministre (lettre commune) 26 Oct., 1696; Relation de ce qui s'est passe*, etc., 

 1695,1696; Relation, 1682-1712 ; Relation des Jesuites, 1696 (Shea) ; Doc. 

 Hist. N. Y., I. 323-355 ; La Potherie, III. 270-282 ; N. Y. Col. Docs., 

 IV. 242. 



Charlevoix charges Frontenac on this occasion with failing to pursue 

 his advantage, lest others, and especially Callieres, should get more 

 honor than he. The accusation seems absolutely groundless. His 

 many enemies were silent about it at the time ; for the king warmly 

 commends his conduct on the expedition, and Callieres himself, writing 

 immediately after, gives him nothing but praise. 



