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feigned as if they were fifliing in the river. They 

 knew their enemies were at no great diftance, and 

 made no doubt they would immediately fall upon 

 the pretended fifhers ; in fact, they foon fell upon 

 them with a large fleet of canoes, when they again 

 counterfeiting fear, took to flight and gained the 

 banks of the river. They were followed clofe by 

 the enemy, who made fure of deftroying an hand- 

 ful of rnen, who to draw them the deeper into the 

 fnare, affected an extraordinary panick. This feint 

 fucceeded ; the purfuers continued to advance, and 

 as the cuftom is of thofe barbarians railing a mod 

 horrible fhouting, they imagined they had now no- 

 thing to do, but to launch forth and feize their 

 prey. 



At the fame inftant, a mower of arrows difcharg- 

 ed from behind the bu flies, which lined the river, 

 threw them into a confufion, from which they were 

 not fuffered to recover. A fecond difcharge, which 

 followed clofe upon the firft, compleated the rout. 

 They wanted to fly in their turn, but could no lon- 

 ger make ufe of their canoes, which were bored on 

 all fides. They plunged into the water, in hopes 

 of efcaping that way, but befides, that moil of 

 them were wounded, they found, on reaching the 

 fhore, the fate they fought to fhun, fo that not a 

 foul efcaped the Algonquins, who gave no quarter, 

 nor made any prifoners. The nation of the Iro- 

 quet have never recovered this check, and though 

 fome of thefe Indians have been feen fince the ar- 

 rival ofthe French in Canada, there is now no doubt 

 of their having been entirely deftroyed long fince. 

 However, the number of dead bodies, which re- 

 mained in the water, and on the banks of the river, 

 infected it to fuch a degree, that it has kept the 

 name of the Stinking-River ever fince. 



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