The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2 Page: 170 of 268
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LA SALLE
with thick stakes, sharp-pointed at the end,
conducted that wretch to a by-place, where
each of these furies began to torment her,
sometimes with the point of their staff and
sometimes laying on her with all their
might. One tore off her hair, another cut
off her finger, and every one of those outrageous
women endeavored to put her to
some exquisite torture, to revenge the death
of their husbands and kinsmen who had
been killed in the former wars; so that the
unfortunate creature expected her death
stroke as mercy.
At last one of them gave her a stroke
with a heavy club on the head, and another
ran her stake several times into her body,
with which she fell down dead on the spot.
Then they cut that miserable victim into
morsels and obliged some slaves of that nation
they had been long possessed of to eat
them.
Thus our warriors returned triumphant
from that expedition. They spared none of
the prisoners they had taken, except two
little boys, and brought home all the skins
of their heads, with the hair, to be kept as
trophies and glorious memorials of their
victory.
The next day all those savages met in
their chief's cottage, whither all the aboveI63
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 2, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6103/m1/170/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .