88 CRUELTY OF SIOUX INDIANS. 



posed upon the Jews in the birth of their 

 children. 



They are truly barbarous, like the Indians 

 in general, towards their captive enemies. The 

 following circumstance, as related to me by 

 an Indian woman, whom I married to one of 

 the principal settlers, and who was a near 

 relation of one of the women who was toma- 

 hawked by a war party of Sioux Indians, some 

 time ago, is calculated to fill the mind with 

 horror. They fell upon four lodges belonging 

 to the Saulteaux, who had encamped near 

 Fond du Lac, Lake Superior, and which con- 

 tained the wives and children of about twelve 

 men, who were at that time absent a hunting ; 

 and immediately killed and scalped the whole 

 party, except one woman and two or three of 

 the children. With the most wanton and 

 savage cruelty, they proceeded to put one of 

 these little ones to death, by first turning him 

 for a short time close before a fire, when they 

 cut off one of his arms, and told him to run ; 

 and afterwards cruelly tortured him, with the 

 other children, till he died. 



It is almost incredible the torture to which 

 they will sometimes put their prisoners; and 

 the adult captives will endure it without a tear 

 or a groan. In spite of all their sufferings, 



