Note 61 — Chapter III
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Id. p. 26. Of course the cases of rescue and adoption were endlessly various in circumstances; see the case of Couture, in Parkman's Jesuits, p. 223; on another occasion "Brigeac was tortured to death with the customary atrocities. Cuillérier, who was present, ... expected the same fate, but an old squaw happily adopted him, and thus saved his life." Parkman's Old Régime in Canada, revised ed. p. 108. For adoption in general see Morgan, Ancient Society, p. 80; League of the Iroquois, p. 342; Colden's History of the Five Nations, London, 1755, i. 9.