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withdraw. I retired, therefore, with sorrow, and had scarcely turned 

 away when the barbarous Iroquois applied the red hot gun barrel to 

 the top of his feet, which caused the poor wretch to utter a loud cry. 

 This turned me about and I saw the Iroquois, with a grave and sober 

 countenance, apply the iron slowly along his feet and legs, and some 

 old men who were smoking around the scaffold, and all the young 

 people leaped with joy to witness the contortions which the severity 

 of the heat caused the poor sufferer. 



" While these events were transpiring, I retired to the cabin where 

 we lodged full of sorrow at not being able to save the poor captive, 

 and it was then that I realised, more than ever, the importance of 

 not venturing too far among the people of this country, without know- 

 their language, or being certain of obtaining an interpreter. 



" As I was in my cabin, praying to God, and very sad, M. de La 

 Salle came and told me he was apprehensive that, in the excitement 

 he saw prevailing in the village they would insult us — that many 

 would become intoxicated that day, and he had finally resolved to 

 return to the place where we had left the canoes, and the rest of our 

 people. 



" We told the seven or eight of our people who were there with 

 us, to withdraw for the day to a small village, half a league from 

 the large one where we were, for fear of some insult, and M. de La 

 Salle and myself went to find M. Dollier de Casson, six leagues from 

 the village. There were some of our people barbarous enough to be 

 willing to witness, from beginning to end, the torture of the poor 

 prisoner, and who reported to us the next day, that his entire body had 

 been burned with red hot irons for the space of six hours ; that there 

 was not the least spot left that had not been roasted. After that they 

 had required him to run six courses past the place where the Iroquois 

 were waiting for him, armed with burning clubs, with which they 

 goaded and beat him to the ground when he attempted to join them. 



" Many took kettles full of coals, and hot ashes, with which they 

 covered him, as soon as, by reason of fatigue and debility, he wished 

 to take a moment's repose. At length, after two hours of this bar- 

 barous diversion, they knocked him down with a stone, and throwing 

 themselves upon him, cut his body in pieces. One carried off his 

 head, another his arm, a third some other member, which they put 

 in the pot for a feast. 



