God Gave Mee The Grace To Forgett Nothing Of My
Duty, As I Tould My Father The Successe Of My
Voyage in the best tearme I
could, and how all things passed, mixturing a litle of their languag with
that
Of the Hurrons, which I learned more fluently then theirs, being
longer and more frequently with the Hurrons.
Every one attentively gave ears to me, hoping by this means to save my
life. Uppon this heere comes a great number of armed men, enters the
Cabban, where finding mee yett tyed with my cords, fitting by my parents,
made their addresses to my father, and spak to him very loud. After a while
my father made me rise and delivers me into their hands. My mother seeing
this, cryes and laments with both my sisters, and I believing in a terrible
motion to goe directly on to the place of execution. I must march, I must
yeeld wheere force is predominant att the publique place.
I was conducted where I found a good company of those miserable wretches,
alltogether beaten with blowes, covered with blood, and bourned. One
miserable frenchman, yett breathing, having now ben consumed with blowes of
sticks, past so through the hands of this inraged crew, and seeing he could
[bear] no more, cutt off his head and threw it into the fire. This was the
end of this Execrable wofull body of this miserable.
They made me goe up the scaffold where weare 5 men, 3 women, and 2 children
captives, and I made the Eleventh.
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