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Title: Champlain, the founder of New France
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dix, Edwin Asa, 1860-1911
Subjects: Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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gan its march. Eventhen, only a small fraction of the number ofwarriors promised had presented themselves.Five hundred more of a neighboring tribe hadagreed to assist them, and as these had not yetarrived, Etienne BruM with twelve of theHurons undertook to meet them and hurrythem after the expedition. Striking at once southeastward, the band atlength, by paddle and portage, reached theshore of Lake Ontario, at its northeast end.Excellent deer-hunting beguiled the way.Ferrying themselves across the broad comerof the lake, the war-party hid their fleet of ca-noes in the woods near the shore and proceededon foot. It was slow progress. The forest wasdense, and caution was now necessary. Theypassed Lake Oneida and its outlet. On Octo-ber 8, a month after they had started, theycame upon and captured a little fishing-partyof eleven Iroquois, among whom were severalwomen. A Huron chief, desiring an agree-able foretaste of the forthcoming tortures tobe inflicted upon them, cut off a womans 166
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A Winter Among the Hurons finger. At this Champlain energetically re-monstrated. He told the chief that it was notthe act of a warrior to show cruelty towardwomen, who had no defense but their tears,and who being weak and helpless should betreated with humanity. He warmly stigma-tized such conduct as a brutal outrage. Thesurprised chief claimed that it was no morethan the Iroquois would do to a capturedHuron woman; but he finally said with re-luctance that if his friend objected with suchvigor, he would not torture the women,* though he would the men. No other incident in Champlains life hasattracted the same attention from Americanantiquarians as has this third raid against theIroquois. There has been not a little discus-sion as to the exact location of the fortifiedtown which this Huron war-party proposedto attack. Mr. 0. H. Marshall, after an elab-orate review of the explorers own narrative,concluded that the site of the Iroquois postwas on Lake Onondaga, southwest of LakeOneida. M

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