the fun, and rubbing his right arm, so

much delight he took in such

scenes,

He then ordered him to be taken out of

the fort, and the soldiers bringing him to the beaver's path (he dancing the kintekaye all the time), threw him down, cut thrust them into mouth while still alive, and at last, placing him on a millstone, cut off his * * There stood at the head. same time some twenty-four or twentyoff his partes genitales, his

five

female savages, who had been taken

prisoners,

and when they saw this bloody

spectacle, they held up their arms, struck their mouths, and in their language ex* claimed For shame For shame such unheard of cruelty was never known " among us.' Documentary History t iv, 105. :

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THE INDIAN TRIBES

we got in a short time twelve dead and one wounded. so hard pressed that it was impossible for one to were They a brief space of time there were counted one hun In escape. dred and eighty dead outside the houses. Presently none durst so that

come

forth,

keeping

through the holes.

within

the

houses,

discharging

arrows

The general (Montagne) remarked that

nothing else was to be done, and resolved, with Sergeant Major Underbill, to set the huts on fire, whereupon the Indians tried every means to escape, not succeeding in which they returned

back to the flames, preferring to perish by the fire than to die by

Massacre of the Weckquaesgeeks.

What was most wonderful is, that among this vast collection of men, women and children, not one was heard to our hands.