﻿HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  187 
  

  

  fifth 
  band 
  of 
  80 
  warriors 
  lay 
  hidden 
  on 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Montreal 
  

   for 
  three 
  days, 
  and 
  this 
  was 
  attacked 
  by 
  the 
  French. 
  The 
  latter 
  

   were 
  repulsed 
  with 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  five 
  men, 
  two 
  of 
  whom 
  were 
  tor- 
  

   tured 
  and 
  burned. 
  The 
  sixth 
  band 
  of 
  40 
  men 
  went 
  toward 
  the 
  

   River 
  of 
  the 
  Prairies, 
  capturing 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  Algonquins, 
  most 
  of 
  

   whom 
  were 
  burned 
  in 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  villages. 
  The 
  seventh 
  took 
  

   Father 
  Bressani 
  and 
  some 
  Hurons. 
  In 
  this 
  band 
  were 
  some 
  

   naturalized 
  Hurons 
  and 
  Algonquins. 
  The 
  eighth 
  met 
  this 
  one 
  

   as 
  it 
  returned. 
  The 
  ninth 
  party 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  River 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  

   and 
  the 
  tenth 
  went 
  against 
  the 
  Hurons. 
  Other 
  small 
  parties 
  

   were 
  out 
  and 
  the 
  ground 
  was 
  well 
  covered. 
  

  

  Bressani's 
  captors 
  sailed 
  two 
  days 
  homeward, 
  when 
  they 
  met 
  

   a 
  party 
  who 
  maltreated 
  the 
  prisoners. 
  They 
  sailed 
  two 
  days 
  

   more, 
  traversed 
  the 
  woods 
  for 
  six 
  days, 
  embarked 
  on 
  Lake 
  Cham- 
  

   plain 
  and 
  followed 
  it 
  for 
  eight 
  days 
  in 
  a 
  leisurely 
  way. 
  Four 
  

   days 
  later 
  they 
  came 
  to 
  a 
  fishery 
  on 
  the 
  Hudson, 
  where 
  400 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  were 
  encamped. 
  They 
  stopped 
  there 
  nearly 
  a 
  month, 
  and 
  

   there 
  Bressani 
  ran 
  the 
  gauntlet 
  and 
  was 
  placed 
  on 
  the 
  usual 
  high 
  

   scaffold, 
  where 
  he 
  had 
  to 
  dance 
  and 
  was 
  frequently 
  burned. 
  This 
  

   scaffold 
  torture 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  peculiar 
  to 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  for 
  on 
  

   this 
  platform 
  they 
  used 
  a 
  slow 
  fire, 
  torches, 
  hot 
  irons, 
  and 
  various 
  

   means 
  of 
  torture, 
  prolonging 
  the 
  pain 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  they 
  could. 
  

   He 
  afterward 
  suffered 
  much 
  in 
  two 
  Mohawk 
  villages, 
  but 
  his 
  life 
  

   was 
  spared 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  a 
  woman 
  whose 
  grandfather 
  the 
  

   Hurons 
  had 
  killed. 
  She 
  thought 
  him 
  of 
  little 
  use, 
  and 
  sent 
  him 
  

   to 
  the 
  Dutch 
  to 
  see 
  what 
  they 
  would 
  give 
  for 
  him. 
  The 
  good 
  

   Father 
  did 
  not 
  tell 
  how 
  low 
  was 
  his 
  price, 
  but 
  the 
  Dutch 
  gave 
  

   more 
  than 
  had 
  been 
  expected 
  and 
  clothed 
  him 
  well. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  been 
  mentioned 
  that 
  three 
  Iroquois 
  prisoners 
  were 
  taken 
  

   in 
  1644. 
  The 
  Algonquins 
  readily 
  gave 
  theirs 
  to 
  the 
  French, 
  but 
  

   the 
  Hurons 
  determined 
  to 
  take 
  their 
  two 
  home, 
  promising 
  not 
  

   to 
  burn 
  them, 
  as 
  there 
  were 
  hopes 
  of 
  peace. 
  That 
  summer 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  destroyed 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  100 
  Algonquins. 
  

  

  Pieskaret 
  made 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  successful 
  expeditions 
  in 
  1645. 
  With 
  

   six 
  Algonquins 
  he 
  killed 
  11 
  Iroquois, 
  brought 
  in 
  two 
  prisoners 
  

   and 
  returned 
  in 
  triumph. 
  At 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  his 
  speech 
  he 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  I 
  

  

  