. The deerslayer : or, The first war-path, a tale . n wrenching out two or three handfuls of hair, before theyoung men could tear her away from her victim. The insult that had been offered to the Sumach was deemedan insult to the whole tribe; not so much, however, on accountof any respect that was felt for the woman^ as on account ofthe honor of the Huron nation. Sumach, herself, was generallyconsidered to be as acid as the berry from which she derivedher name; and now that her great supporters, her husbandand brother, were both gone, few eared about concealing theiraversion. Nevertheless, it
. The deerslayer : or, The first war-path, a tale . n wrenching out two or three handfuls of hair, before theyoung men could tear her away from her victim. The insult that had been offered to the Sumach was deemedan insult to the whole tribe; not so much, however, on accountof any respect that was felt for the woman^ as on account ofthe honor of the Huron nation. Sumach, herself, was generallyconsidered to be as acid as the berry from which she derivedher name; and now that her great supporters, her husbandand brother, were both gone, few eared about concealing theiraversion. Nevertheless, it had become a point of honor topunish the pale-face who disdained a Huron woman, and moreparticularly, one who coolly preferred death to relieving thetribe from the support of a widow and her children. The 540 THE DEERSLAYER, young men showed an impatience to begin to torture, thatRivenoak understood; and as his elder associates manifested nodisposition to permit any longer delay, he was compelled to givethe signal for the infernal work to THE DEERSLATER. 541 CHAPTER XXIX. The ugly bear now minded not the how the cruel mastiffs do him tear ;The stag lay still, uiiroused from the foamy boar feared not the hunters spear:All thing was still in desert, bush, and briar. Lord Dorset. It was one of the common expedients of the savages, on suchoccasions, to put the nerves of their victims to the severest the other hand, it was a matter of Indian pride to betraynu yielding to terror or pain; but for the prisoner to provokehis enemies to such acts of violence as would soonest producedeath. Many a warrior had been known to bring his own suf-ferings to a more speedy termination, by taunting reproachesand reviling language, when he found that his physical systemwas giving way under the agony of sufferings, produced by ahellish ingenuity, that might well eclipse all that has been saidof the infernal devices of religious persecution. This happyexpedient
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