Note 76 — Chapter III · 1608-1763. THE FRENCH, THE ENGLISH, AND THE INDIANS.
Reading edition
La Hontan, I. 177. Potherie, Hist. Am. Sept. II. 298 (Paris, 1722).
These facts afford no ground for national reflections, when it is recollected that while Iroquois prisoners were tortured in the wilds of Canada, Elizabeth Gaunt was burned to death at Tyburn for yielding to the dictates of compassion, and giving shelter to a political offender.