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What farther confirmed the Account of the four Frenchmen 

 was, that thirty Warriors of Fimiteouyy commanded by the 

 Chief of the Village, were in the Field, to endeavour to get 

 ijiore certain News of the Enemy ; and that a few Days before 

 their Departure, there had been an A6lion in the Neighbour- 

 hood, in which the two Parties had each made one Prifoner : 

 The Outagami had been burnt about a Mulket-Shot from the 

 Village, and he was ftxU in his Frame. The Canadians^ who 

 affifted in his Puniftiment, told me that it lailed five Hours, and 

 that this unfortunate Wretch had maintained till his Death that 

 he was an Illinois, and that he had been taken in his Childhood 

 by the Outagamis, who had adopted him. 



However, he had fought very well, and had it not been foj 

 a Wound received in the Leg, he had not been taken. 

 But as he could give no Proofs of what he had alledged, and 

 had been very near making his Efcape, they would not believe 

 him on his Word. He made it appear in the midft of his Tor- 

 ments, that Bravery, and Courage in bearing Pain, are very dif- 

 ferent Virtues, and that they do not always go together, fojr 

 he made moll lamentable Cries, which only ferved to animate 

 his Executioners. It is true that an old Woman, whofe So]j 

 had been formerly killed by the Outagamis^ made him fuifer 

 all the Pains that Fury infpired by Revenge could invent. 

 However, at laft they took Pity on his Cries, they covered 

 him with Straw, which they fet on Fire ; and as he had ftili 

 fome Life in him after it was burnt out, the Children killed 

 him with their Arrows. Generally, when a Sufferer does aot die 

 bravely, it is a Woman, or Children, that give him his Death^s 

 Wound : He does not deferve, they fay, to die by the Hand of 

 a Man. 



I found myfelf. Madam, greatly embarrafled. On one Sidej 

 my Conductors did not think it prudent to go forward ; on the 

 other, it was very inconvenient for my Aflairs to winter at Fj^ 

 miteouy : I fhouîd then have even been obliged to follow th^ 

 Savages in their Winter-Quarters, and this would have made 

 me lofe a whole Year. At laft the two Canadia7zsy of the four 

 which I found at Fimiteouy, offered to encreafe my Y.{^ori, AP-d 

 they ail took Heart. I would have departed the next Day, 

 the fourth of OSlobcr, but the Rain, and fome other DiiScidtks 

 which we met with, flopt me the whole Day. 



The Warriors, who had been out on ihe Dîfcovery, came 



The Difficulties ^^^^ Afternoon, without maicing Txny 



je îjjicu les ^ becaufe they had feen nothing:. Ther 

 in ^hich I found ii ri^j ^sr \ c %i i o 



rir- all hied off before me with a proud Son of 



^^■^^J* an Air: They were only armed with Aj* 



rows, and a round Shield of Buffalo's Hides^ and the/ did jjot 



