Whereupon I interfered, and censured the Iroquet Captain, representing to him that a Warrior, as he called liimself, was not in the liabit of acting cruelly towards women, who have no defence but their tears and who, by reason of their helplessness and feebleness, ought to be treated with humanit)^ Tliat on the contrary tliis act would be supposed to proceed from a vile and brutal courage, and that if he committed any more of those cruelties, lie would not encoui-age me to assist them, nor to favor their war. Whereupon he replied, that their enemies treated them in the same manner. But since such customs displeased me, he Avould not act so any more to women, but exclusively to men.
Next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon we arrived before the enemy's fort, where the Savages had some skirmishes, the one against the other, though it was not our design to discover ourselves imtil the morrow : But the iuipatience of our- Savages would not brook this, as well tlu*ough the desire they felt to see us fire on their enemies, as to liberate some of their men who had ventured too far. Then I advanced and presented myself, but with the few men I had ; nevertheless I shewed them what they never saw nor heard before. For as soon as tliey saw us, and heard the reports of the Arquebus, and the balls whistling about their ears, tliey retired promptly within their Fort, carrying off their wounded and dead ; and we retreated in hke manner to oiu- main body, with five or six of our wounded, one of whom died.