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ftill uncertain of his fate, lofes not one quarter of 

 an hour of his reft ; and even the firft and moft 

 fudden fhocks of paflion never furprize them. A 

 Huron captain was one day infulted and ftruck by 

 a young man, and the by-ftanders going to punilh 

 this infolence on the fpot ; Let him alone, replied 

 the captain, did you not perceive the earth to 

 quake, by that he his fufficiently warned of his 

 folly. 



Their conflancy in torments is beyond all ex- 

 predion. A young woman mall be a whole day in 

 labour without a fliriek ; mould flic difcover the 

 leaft weaknefs me would be held unworthy the 

 name of mother, as being only capable of bring- 

 ing forth cowards. Nothing is more common than 

 to fee perfons of every age and fex fuffer for feve- 

 ral hours, and even ibmetimes for feveral days to- 

 gether, all the torments which fire, or the moft 

 infatiable fury can inflict or invent, in order to 

 render them the more exquifite, without fo much 

 as a groan they are even moft commonly em- 

 ployed during their torture in provoking their ex- 

 ecutioners by the moft gauling reproaches. 



An Outagamie, whom the Illinois were burning 

 with the utmoft barbarity, having perceived a 

 Frenchman amongft the fpeclators, begged him 

 to have the goodnefs to aflift his enemies in tor- 

 menting him and upon the other's afking him 

 the reafon of this requeft, " It is, anfwered h©, 

 " becaufe I mould then have the confolacion of 

 " dying by the hands of a man." " My greater!: 

 cs regrer, added he, is that I have never killed a 

 " man." But, returned an Illinois, you have killed 

 fuch arid fuch perfons. " As for the Illinois, re- 



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