Note 408 — Chapter XIV
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"Colden relates that, during the war between the French and Iroquois, two old men were cut to pieces, and put into the war-kettle for the Christian Indians to feast on."—Colden, vol. i., p. 81.
"Frontenac stands conspicuous among all his nation for deeds of cruelty to the Indians. Nothing was more common than for his Indian prisoners to be given up to his Indian allies to be tormented. One of the most horrible of these scenes on record was perpetrated under his own eye at Montreal in 1691."—Colden, vol. i., p. 441, quoted by Howitt.
"Les habitans en firent brûler, persuadés que le seul moyen de corriger ces barbares de leurs cruantés, étoit de les trailer eux-même comme ils traitoient les autres."—Charlevoix, Jésuite, tom., iii., p. 139.