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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  was 
  abandoned. 
  There 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  full 
  and 
  unresisted 
  

   range, 
  and 
  the 
  bravest 
  were 
  unnerved. 
  

  

  The 
  Petun 
  or 
  Tobacco 
  nation, 
  otherwise 
  known 
  as 
  Tionontaties 
  

   or 
  Mountaineers, 
  was 
  the 
  next 
  to 
  suffer. 
  In 
  November 
  1649 
  tne 
  

   Petuns 
  learned 
  with 
  joy 
  that 
  300 
  Iroquois 
  were 
  in 
  Canada, 
  unde- 
  

   cided 
  what 
  place 
  to 
  attack. 
  Those 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  called 
  St 
  Jean 
  by 
  

   the 
  French, 
  Etharita 
  by 
  the 
  Petuns, 
  waited 
  for 
  them 
  several 
  days 
  

   and 
  then, 
  fearing 
  they 
  might 
  escape, 
  sallied 
  forth 
  to 
  find 
  them, 
  

   considering 
  them 
  already 
  vanquished. 
  This 
  was 
  Dec. 
  5. 
  

   The 
  enemy 
  took 
  another 
  road, 
  making 
  some 
  prisoners, 
  from 
  

   whom 
  they 
  learned 
  that 
  the 
  town 
  was 
  destitute 
  of 
  men. 
  They 
  

   hastened 
  their 
  inarch 
  and 
  were 
  before 
  the 
  place 
  Dec. 
  7, 
  at 
  3 
  p. 
  m. 
  

   It 
  was 
  an 
  easy 
  prey, 
  but 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  fearing 
  the 
  return 
  of 
  the 
  

   warriors, 
  with 
  great 
  cruelties 
  killed 
  all 
  who 
  could 
  not 
  march 
  

   quickly. 
  Father 
  Charles 
  Gamier 
  was 
  alone 
  in 
  this 
  mission 
  and 
  

   went 
  at 
  once 
  to 
  his 
  chapel, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  his 
  post, 
  but 
  

   without 
  torture. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  had 
  no 
  time 
  for 
  that. 
  Two 
  days 
  

   after 
  the 
  Petun 
  warriors 
  returned. 
  Their 
  homes 
  were 
  desolate, 
  

   their 
  people 
  dead 
  or 
  in 
  captivity. 
  Their 
  horror 
  was 
  too 
  deep 
  for 
  

   cries 
  or 
  words. 
  For 
  half 
  a 
  day 
  they 
  sat 
  silent 
  on 
  the 
  ground, 
  

   without 
  raising 
  their 
  eyes, 
  without 
  moving 
  and 
  seeming 
  hardly 
  

   to 
  breathe, 
  like 
  statues 
  of 
  stone. 
  

  

  The 
  western 
  war 
  diminished 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  remove 
  hostilities 
  on 
  

   the 
  St 
  Lawrence. 
  The 
  Mohawks 
  attacked 
  the 
  French 
  in 
  1650, 
  

   near 
  Three 
  Rivers, 
  fighting 
  in 
  the 
  marsh 
  and 
  flying 
  in 
  their 
  

   canoes. 
  When 
  their 
  enemies 
  were 
  scattered, 
  they 
  turned 
  against 
  

   them. 
  They 
  were 
  led 
  by 
  a 
  half-breed, 
  well 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  Dutch 
  

   Bastard. 
  In 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  country 
  a 
  party 
  of 
  Hurons 
  and 
  Algon- 
  

   quins 
  was 
  betrayed 
  to 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  that 
  year 
  and 
  was 
  destroyed. 
  

   -Still 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  were 
  aiding 
  the 
  upper 
  Iroquois 
  that 
  

   year, 
  having 
  their 
  promise 
  to 
  fight 
  against 
  the 
  Andastes 
  as 
  soon 
  

   as 
  the 
  western 
  warfare 
  was 
  over. 
  This 
  had 
  a 
  new 
  object 
  for 
  a 
  

   while. 
  In 
  1650 
  war 
  began 
  against 
  the 
  Neutrals, 
  whose 
  frontier 
  

   towns 
  were 
  quickly 
  taken, 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1650, 
  the 
  other 
  

   the 
  following 
  spring. 
  One 
  was 
  garrisoned 
  by 
  1600 
  men. 
  The 
  car- 
  

   nage 
  was 
  fearful 
  and 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  prisoners 
  immense, 
  the 
  young 
  

  

  