"f% Some ISlew Voyages 



f tied to Pofk, and whip'd in fuch a manner, that 

 f they could neither fleep, nor guard off the Flies 5 

 € that the only Requical they met with for procuring 



* to the French a Commerce in the Skins of Beavers 



* and other Animals, was, to be doonvd to Slavery, 

 t and to fee their Fathers, and the ancient Men of 

 f their Country, murdered before their eyes. Are 

 f thefe the French, laid they , that the Jefuits cry'd up 

 € fo much for Men of Probity and Honour 2 Even 

 c the crueileft fort of Death that Imagination it felf 



* can reach, would be nothing to us in comparifon 

 f with the odious and horrible Spectacle of the Blood 



* of our Anceftors, that is /lied fo inhumanely before 



* our eyes. Affuredly, the five Villages will revenge 

 ? our Quarrel, and entertain an everlafting and juft 

 c Refentnienc oi the tyrannical Ufage we now meet 

 € with." I made up to one of thefe Wretches that 

 Was about five and twenty Years old, and had fre- 

 quently regal'd me' in ;his Hutt, not far from the 

 Port, during my fix Weeks Service in that Place in 

 the Year of Mr. de la Barrel Expedition. This poor 

 tVlan being Mafter of the Algonkin Language, I gave 

 him to, know, that I was heartily griev'd to fee hioi 

 p that difmal Pofiure ; that I would take care to 

 fiave Victuals and Drink convey'd to him twice a 

 da}/, and would give him Letters for my Friends at 

 Mowed., in order to his being us'd more favourably 

 than his Companions. He reply'd, That he faw and 

 was very well acquainted with the Horror that moft 

 of the French were affe&ed with, upon the view of 

 the Cruelty they underwent j and, that hefcorn'd 

 to be fed, or us d more civilly than his Fellow Pri- 

 foners. He gave mean account pf the manner in 

 which they were (iirpris'd, and how their Anceftors. 

 were mafTacred ; and truly, I do not believe that any 

 one can be touched with more cutting and bitter Re- 

 fiexioris than this poor Man was, when he recounted 

 die many Services he had done the French, during 



