The picturesque StLawrence . rnor himself Thefears of the panic-stricken people were not real-ized, for town and forts were left Indians contented themselves with burningall the houses and barns for nine miles around,while small parties pillaged and scalped attwice that distance. Their own losses were in-significant, consisting of a few warriors killedand three drunken stragglers captured. Theseprisoners, when they came to their senses, defiedtheir guards and fought with such ferocity thatit was necessary to shoot them. For two months the invaders continued toroam the vicinity,
The picturesque StLawrence . rnor himself Thefears of the panic-stricken people were not real-ized, for town and forts were left Indians contented themselves with burningall the houses and barns for nine miles around,while small parties pillaged and scalped attwice that distance. Their own losses were in-significant, consisting of a few warriors killedand three drunken stragglers captured. Theseprisoners, when they came to their senses, defiedtheir guards and fought with such ferocity thatit was necessary to shoot them. For two months the invaders continued toroam the vicinity, and then most of them tookto their canoes and recrossed Lake St. Louis ina body, giving ninety yells to show they hadthat number of prisoners in their were enough other captives to make fullyone hundred and twenty in all, and about twohundred persons had been killed. The Indianscamped on the other side of the lake and beganto torture and devour their prisoners, and fromthe strand of Lachine sorrowing groups of. ^ The Rapids 65 whites saw the fires gleaming along the distantshore where their friends and relatives weresuffering. The greater part of the prisoners,however, were reserved to be carried to the townsof the Indians and there tortured for the diver-sion of the inhabitants. It was at one time the hope of the French towin over the Iroquois in a body by wholesaleconversion to the Faith; but this attempt beside the St. Lawrence on the south side ofthe river nearly opposite Lachine they estab-lished a village which should be the home ofsuch converts as they could gain. In 1736 thenumber of warriors at this village of Caugh-nawaga, a name that means praying Indians,was estimated at three hundred. They couldnot be trusted to fight their kinsmen, but willing-ly made forays against the English the other Canadian missions Caughnawagawas of value to the Church, the army and thefur trade. It had a chapel, fortifications andstorehouses. The prese
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