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ing. Suddenly He heard the Indian war cry, and, looking 
out of the window, saw a crowd of Indians within the 
fort furiously cutting down and scalping every English- 
man they found. He noticed, too, many of the Canadian 
inhabitants of the fort quietly looking on, neither trying 
to stop the Indians nor suffering inj ury from them ; and 
from the fact that these people were not being attacked, 
he conceived the hope of finding security in one of their 
houses. This is as he tells it : 
"Between the yard-door of my own house and that of 
M. Langlade, my next neighbor, there was only a low 
fence, over which I easily climbed. At my entrance I 
found the whole family at the windows, gazing at the 
scere of blood before them. I addressed myself imme- 
diaf ;ly to M. Langlade, begging that he wauld put me into 
son e place of safety until the heat of the affair should 
be ( ver, an act of charity by which he might perhaps pre- 
ser e me from the general massacre ; but, while I uttered 
my petition, M. Langlade, who had looked for a moment 
at ! :e, turned again to the window, shrugging his shoul- 
dep-i and intimating that he could do nothing for me — 
'Qt 7'oudries-vous que j'en fcraisf 
*" Phis was a moment for despair ; but the next a Pani 
wol lan, a slave of M. Langlade's, beckoned to me to fol- 
low her. She brought me to a door, which she opened, 
des ring me to enter, and telling me that it led to the 
gat et, where I must go and conceal myself. I joyfully 
ob( fed her directions and she, having followed me up 
to he garret door, locked it after me, and with great 
pre ence of mind took away the key. 
Phis shelter obtained if shelter I could hope to find it, 
I V as naturally anxious to know what might still be 
passing without. Through an aperture which afforded 
me 1 view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the 
foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of bar- 
barian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled; 
the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsa- 
tiated knife and tomahawk, and, from the bodies of some 
ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, 
scooped up in the hollow of joined hands and quaffed 
amid shouts of rage and victory. I was shaken, not only 
with horror, but with fear. The sufferings which I wit- 
nessed I seemed on the point of experiencing. No long 
lime elapsed before every one being destroyed who could 
be found, there was a general cry of, 'All is finished !' At 
the same instant I heard some of the Indians enter the 
house in which I was. 
"The garret was separated from the room below only 
by a layer of single boards, at once the flooring of the 
one and the ceiling of the other. I could therefore hear 
everything that passed; and, the Indians no sooner in, 
than they inquired whether or not any Englishmen were 
in the house? M. Langlade replied that 'He could not 
say — he did not know of any'- — answers in which he did 
not exceed the truth, for the Pani woman had not only 
hidden me by stealth, but kept my secret and her own; 
M. Langlade was therefore, as I presume, as far from a 
wish to destroy me as he was careless about saving me, 
when he added to these answers that 'They might exam- 
ine for themselves, and would soon be satisfied as to the 
object of their question.' Saying this, he brought them 
to the garret door. 
"The state of my mind will be imagined. Arrived at 
the door, some delay was occasioned by the absence of 
the key, and a few moments were thus allowed me in 
v/hich to look around for a hiding place. In one corner 
of the garret was a heap of those vessels of birch-bark, 
used in maple-sugar making, such as I have recently 
described. 
"The door was unlocked, and opening, and the Indians 
ascending the stairs before I had completely crept into a 
small opening which presented itself at one end of the 
heap. An instant after four Indians entered the room, 
all ai'med with tomahawks, and all besmeared with blood 
upon every" part of their bodies. 
"The die appeared to be cast. I could scarcely breathe ; 
but I thought that the throbbing of my heart occasioned 
a noise loud enough to betray me. The Indians walked 
in every direction about the garret, and one of them ap- 
proached me so closely that at a particular moment, had 
he put out his hand, he must have touched me. Still, I 
remained undiscovered, a circumstance to which the dark 
color of my clothes and the corner in which I was must 
have contributed. In a word, after taking several turns 
in the room, during want of light, in a room which had 
no window, and in which they told Mr. Langlade how 
many they had killed, and how many scalps they had 
taken, they returned down stairs, and I with sensations 
not to be expressed heard the door, which was the barrier 
between me and fate, locked for the second time. 
"There was a feather bed on the floor; and on this, 
exhausted as I was by the agitation of my mind, I threw 
myself down and fell asleep. In this state I remained till 
the dusk of the evening, when I was awakened by a 
second opening of the door. The person that now en- 
tered was M. Langlade's wife, who was much surprised 
at finding me, but advised me not to be uneasy, observing 
that the Indians had killed most of the English, but that 
she hoped I might myself escape. A shower of rain hav- 
ing begun to fall, she had come to stop a hole in the roof. 
On her going away, I begged her to send me a little 
water to drink, which she did. 
"As night was now advancing, I continued to lie on the 
bed, ruminating on my condition but unable to discover 
a resource from which I could hope for life. A flight to 
Detroit had no probable chance of success. The distance 
from Michilimackinac was four hundred miles; I was 
without provisions, and the whole length of the road lay 
through Indian countries, countries of an enemy in arms, 
where the first man whom I should meet would kill me. 
To -stay where I was threatened nearly the same issue. 
As before, fatigue of mind and not tranquillity, suspended 
my cares and procured me further sleep. * * * 
"The respite which sleep afforded me during the night 
was put an end to by the- return of morning. I was again 
on the rack of apprehension. At sunrise I heard the 
family stirring, and, presently after, Indian voices, inform- 
ing M. Langlade that they had not found my hapless self 
^rhohg the dead, and that they supposed me to be some- 
where concealed. M. Langlade appeared, from what 
followed, to be by this time acquainted with the place of 
my retreat, of which, no doubt, he had been informed 
by his wife. The poor woman as soon as the Indians 
mentioned me, declared to her husband in the French 
tongue, that he should no longer keep me in his house, 
but deliver me up to my pursuers ; giving as a reason for 
this measure that should the Indians discover his instru- 
mentality in my concealment, they might revenge it on 
her children, and that it was better that I should die than 
they. M. Langlade resisted at first this sentence of his 
wife's; but soon suffered her to prevail, informing the 
Indians that he had been told I was in his house; that I 
had come there without his knowledge, and that he 
would put me into their hands. This was no sooner ex- 
pressed than he began to ascend the stairs, the Indians 
following upon his heels. 
"I now resigned myself to the fate with which I was 
menaced; and regarding every attempt at concealment as 
vain, I arose from the bed and presented myself full in 
view to the Indians who were entering the room. They 
were all in a state of intoxication, and entirely naked, 
except about the middle. One of them, named Wenni- 
way, whom I had previously known and who was upward 
of six feet in height, had his entire face and body covered 
with charcoal and grease, only that a white spot of two 
inches in diameter encircled either eye. This man, walk- 
ing up to me, seized me with one hand by the collar of 
the coat, while in the other he held a large carving knife, 
as if to plunge it into my breast; his eyes, meanwhile, 
were fixed steadfastly on mine. At length, after some 
seconds of the most anxious suspense, he dropped his 
arm, saying, 'I won't kill you !' To this he added that 
he had been frequently engaged in wars against the Eng- 
lish, and had brought away many scalps ; that, on a cer- 
tain occasion, he had lost a brother, whose name was 
Musingon, and that I should be called after him." 
Several times within the next two or three days Henry 
had narrow escapes from death at the hands of drunken 
Indians; but, finally, his captors, having stripped him of 
all his clothing, save an old shirt, took him, with other 
prisoners, and set out for the Isles du Castor, in Lake 
Michigan. 
At the village of L'Arbe Croche, the Ottawas forcibly 
took away their prisoners from the Chippewas, but 
the Chippewas made violent complaint, while the Ottawas 
explained to the prisoners that they had taken them from 
the Chippewas to save their lives, it being the practice 
of the Chippewas to eat their enemies, in order to give 
them courage in battle. A council was held between the 
Chippewas and Ottawas, the result of which was that the 
prisoners were handed over to their original captors. 
But, before they had left this place, while Henry was 
sitting in the lodge with his captor, his friend and 
brother, Wawatam, suddenly entered. As he passed 
Henry, he shook hands with him, but went toward the 
Great Chief, by whom he sat down, and,- after smoking, 
arose again, and left the lodge, saying to Henry as he 
passed him, "Take courage." 
A little later, Wawatam and his wife entered the lodge, 
bringing large presents, which they threw down before 
the chiefs. Wawatam explained that Henry was his 
brother, and therefore a relative to the whole tribe, and 
asked that he be turned over to him, which was done. 
Henry now went with Wawatam to his lodge, and 
thereafter lived with him. The Indians were very much 
afraid that the English would send to revenge the killing 
of their troops, and they shortly moved to the Island of 
Michilimackinac. A little later a brigade of canoes, con- 
taining goods and abundant liquor, was captured ; and 
\Vawatam, fearing the results of the drink on the In- 
dians, took Henry away and concealed him in a cave, 
where he remained for two days. 
The head chief of the village of Michilimackinac now 
recommended to Wawatam and Henry that, on account 
of the frequent arrival of Indians from Montreal, some of 
vvhom had lost relatives or friends in the war, Henry 
should be dressed like an Indian, and the wisdom of this 
f.dvice was recognized. His hair was cut off, his head 
shaved, except for a scalplock, his face painted, and In- 
dian clothing given him. Wawatam helped him to visit 
Michilimackinac, where Henry found one of his clerks,, 
hut none of his property. Soon after this they moved 
away to Wawatam's wintering ground, which Henry was 
very willing to visit, because in the main camp he was 
constantly subjected to insults from the Indians who 
knew of his race. 
Henry writes fully of the customs of the Indians, of 
the habits of many of the animals which they pursued, 
and of the life he led. He says that during this winter 
''Raccoon hunting was my more particular and daily em- 
ploy. I usually went out at the first dawn of day, 
and seldom returned till sunset, or till I had laden my- 
self with as many animals as I could carry. By degrees 
1 became familiarized with this kind of life; and had it 
r.ot been for the idea of which I could not divest my 
mind that I was living among savages, and for the whis- 
pers of a lingering hope that I should one day be released 
from it, or if I could have forgotten that I had ever been 
otherwise than as I then was, I could have enjoyed as 
much happiness in this as in any other situation." 
Among the interesting hunting occurrences narrated is 
one of the killing of a bear, and of the ceremonies subse- 
quent to this killing performed by the Indians. He says : 
"In the course of the month of January I happened to 
observe that the trunk of a very large pine tree was 
much torn by the claws of a bear, made both in going up 
and down. On further examination, I saw that there was 
a large opening in the upper part near which the smaller 
branches were broken. From these marks, and from the 
additional circumstance that there were no tracks in the 
snow, there was reason to believe that a bear lay con- 
cealed in the tree. 
"On returning to the lodge, I communicated my dis- 
covery, and it was agreed that all the family should go 
together, in the morning, to assist in cutting down the 
tree, the girth of which was not less than three fathom. 
Accordingly, in the morning, we surrounded the tree, 
both men and women, as many at a time as could con- 
veniently work at it, and here we toiled, like beaver, till 
the sun went down. This day's work carried us about 
half way through the trunk; and the next morning we re- 
newed the attack, continuing it till about two o'clock in 
the afternoon, when the tree fell to the ground. For a 
few minutes everything remained quiet, and I feared that 
all our expectations were disappointed; but, as I ad- 
vanced to the opening, there came out, to the great satis- 
faction of all our party, a bear of extraordinary size, 
which, before she had proceeded many yards, I shot. 
"The bear being dead, all my assistants approached, 
but more particularly my old mother (as I was 
wont to call her), took her head in their hands, stroking' 
and kissmg it several times, begging a thousand pardons 
for takmg away her life; calling her their relation and 
grandmother, and requesting her not to lay the fault upon 
them, since it was truly an Englishman that had put her 
to death. 
"This ceremony was not of long duration, and if it was 
T that killed their grandmother, they were not themselves 
behindhand in what remained to be performed. The skin 
being taken off, we found the fat in several places six 
inches deep. This, being divided into two parts, loaded 
two persons, and the flesh parts were as much as four 
persons could carry. In all, the carcass must have ex- 
ceeded five hundred weight. 
'As soon as we reached the lodge, the bear's head was 
adorned with all the trinkets in the possession of the 
family, such as silver arm-bands and wrist-bands, and 
belts of vvampum, and then laid upon a scaffold set up for 
its reception within the lodge. Near the nose was placed 
a large quantity of tobacco. 
_ "The next morning no sooner appeared than prepara- 
tions were made for a feast to the manes. The lodge was 
cleaned and swept, and the head of the bear lifted up 
and a new stroud blanket, which had never been used be- 
fore, spread under it. The pipes were now lit, and Wawa- 
tarn blew tobacco smoke into the nostrils of the bear, 
telling me to do the same, and thus appease the anger of 
the bear on account of my having killed her. I en- 
deavored to persuade my benefactor and friendly adviser 
that she no longer had any life, and assured him that I 
was under no apprehension from her displeasure ; but the 
first proposition obtained no credit, and the second gave 
but little satisfaction. 
"At length, the feast being ready, Wawatam commenced 
a speech, resembling, in many things, his address to the 
manes of his relations and departed companions, but 
having this peculiarity, that he here deplored the neces- 
sity under which men labored thus to destroy their 
friends. He represented, however, that the misfortune 
was unavoidable, since without doing so they could by 
no means subsist. The speech ended, we all ate heartily 
of the beai''s flesh, and even the head itself, after remain- 
ing three days on the scaffold, was put into the kettle. 
"It is only the female bear that makes her winter lodg- 
ing in the upper parts of trees, a practice by which her 
young are secured from the attacks of wolves and other 
animals. She brings forth in the winter season, and re- 
mains in her lodge till the cubs have gained some 
strength. 
"The male always lodges in the ground, under the roots 
of trees. He takes to this habitation as soon as the snow 
falls, and remains there till it has disappeared. The In- 
dians remark that the bear comes out in the spring with 
the same fat which he carried in in the autumn ; but, after 
exercise of only a few days, becomes lean. Excepting for 
a short part of the season, the male lives constantly 
alone. 
"The fat of our bear was melted down, and the oil filled 
six porcupine skins. A part of the meat was cut into 
strips, and fire-dried, after which it was put into the ves- 
sels containing the oil, where it remained in perfect 
preservation until the middle of summer," 
When spring came, and they returned to the more 
traveled routes, and met other Indians, it was seen that 
these people were all anxious lest the English should 
this summer avenge the outbreak of the Indians of the 
previous year. Henry was exceedingly anxious to escape 
from his present life, and his brother was willing that 
he should go, but this appeared difficult. At last, how- 
ever, a Canadian canoe, carrying Madame Cadotte, came 
along, and this good woman was willing to assist Henry 
so far as she could. He and his brother parted rather 
sadly, and Henry, now under the guise of a Canadian, 
took a paddle in Madame Cadotte's canoe. She took him 
safely to the Sault, where he was welcomed by M. 
Cadotte, whose great influence among the Indians was 
easily sufficient to protect him. Soon after this there 
came an embassy from Sir William Johnson, calling the 
Indians to come to Niagara and make peace with the 
English; and after consulting the Great Turtle, who was 
the guardian spirit of the Chippewas, a number of young 
men volunteered to go to Niagara, and among them, 
Henry. 
After a long voyage they reached Niagara, where 
Henry was received by Sir VVilliam Johnson very kindly, 
and subsequently was appointed by General Bradstreet, 
commander of an Indian battalion of ninety-six men, 
among whom were many of the Indians who, not long 
before, had been ready and eager to kill him. With the 
command he moved westward, and after peace had been 
made with Pontiac, at Detroit, with a detachment of 
troops reached Michilimackinac, where he recovered a 
part of his property. Geo. Bird Grinnell. 
A fine mosaic has been unearthed below the Piazza 
Guglielmo Pepe in Rome. Figures of deer, antelopes, 
and dogs representing an animated hunting scene are 
composed of brilliant tesserje on a white ground. The 
work is so good that archteologists incline to place it in 
the first Christian century. Many coins, capitals, sar- 
cophagi, and bits of sculptured frieze have been found 
while enlarging the foundations of the great memorial 
to Victor Emmanuel I. — New York Times. 
"You were loaded," said the Justice to Charles and 
Philip Gunn as they were led to the bar by Policeman 
Burns, who had found them drunk. 
"Were you ever pointed in my direction before?" 
"No, sir," the Gunns responded in chorus. 
"Both barrels discharged," said the court. 
