Note 21 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.
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Four years after, M. Venault was sent to the Lower Amur partly, if possible, to clear up the fate of De la Brunière. On arriving at what is now called the White village, he found no difficulty in ascertaining how matters had gone. M. de la Brunière, it seemed, was preparing his meal in a small bay, when ten men, attracted by the prospect of booty from the strange priest, went towards him, armed with bows and pikes. Having hit him with several arrows, seven of them struck him with their pikes, and the last stroke fractured his skull and proved mortal. This act consummated, the assassins divided the spoil.