An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . deputies wereto land at the cascades of the St. Lawrence, on their way to Mon-treal ; he and a party of his countrymen lay in ambush and killedor captured them as they successively disembarked. He then in-formed the prisoners that this crime had been committed at the insti-gation of the governor, and that they were to be conveyed to Mon-treal and hung. On being informed of the tre
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . deputies wereto land at the cascades of the St. Lawrence, on their way to Mon-treal ; he and a party of his countrymen lay in ambush and killedor captured them as they successively disembarked. He then in-formed the prisoners that this crime had been committed at the insti-gation of the governor, and that they were to be conveyed to Mon-treal and hung. On being informed of the treaty, he feigned thegreatest astonishment, and loudly exclaimed against the Frenchmanstreschery, which had made him its tool. He then sent them home,retaining one to supply the place of a warrior whom he had governor was entirely ignorant of this transaction, and stillwaited for the deputies of his new allies. In this frame of mind, hewas visited by Le Rat, and throui^h the artful representations of thaivarrior, induced to shoot the Iroquois who had been substituted forthe slain Huron. Le Rat took care that an old Iroquois slave in hispossession should witness this execution, although the causes of it. were carefully concealed : and he was then sent immediately to hi?own tribe to report that even this solitary Iroquois, notwithstandino,all the remonstrances of Le Rat, could not be saved from the governors fury. It is easy to conceive the indignation of the Iroquois when they,h^^ard of the massacre at the Cascades ; but the last stroke of LeRats policy roused every element of war and destruction. Thewhole tribe rushed to arms ; and descending on the island of Mon-treal, laid it waste by fire and sword, carrying off two hundred pri--soners. The Fort at Cataraqui, like that at Niagara, was blown upand abandoned. The colony was now in a periluus condition ; its very existencewas threatened ; and some officer possessing energy of characterand address in dealing with the sava
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