He had, no doubt, prepared himself during his long fife to Not the slightest complaint die with firmness, however cruel the tortures he should have to endure. escaped his lips. On the contrary he exhorted those who tormented him to remember his death, so as to display the same courage when those of his nation would take vengeance on them and when a savage, weary of his harangues, gave him some cuts of a knife, " I thank thee," he cried, "but thou oughtst to complete my death by fire. Learn, French dogs and ye, savages! their allies that ye are the dogs of dogs. Kemember what ye ought to do, when you will be in the same position Similar sentiments will be found perhaps to flow rather from ferociousness, than true that I am." valour but there are heroes among barbarians as well as among the most polished nations, and what would be brutality in us may pass for valour with an Iroquois. The 9th M. de Vaudreuil returned from Oneida at eight o'clock in the morning. He departed on the morning of the 6th, with a detachment of six to seven hundred of the most active men of the whole army, soldiers, militia and Indians. He had, under him, Sieurs de Louvigny and de LinvilDesjordis and Dauberville, Calvinist Captains Soulange and de Sabrevois, lieutenants lieres, Captain of foot, and several other subaltern officers. Sieur de Villedenay, also lieutenant, acted as his Aid de Camp. As it was necessary to use great expedition, they did not march in as exact order as the army had done M. de Vaudreuil contented himself throwing the scouts some quarter of a league in advance and on the wings, between the scouts and the main body he placed a detached corps of 50, a forlorn hope commanded in turn by a lieutenant.