Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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days they retreated, followed by the victorious Iroquois. The woundedleader was packed in a basket and borne upon the shoulders of a warrior. Bundled in a heap, says Champlain, doubled and strapped to-gether in such a fashion that one could move no more than an infant inswaddling-clothes ... I lost all patience, and as soon as I could bear myweight I got out of this prison, or, to speak plainly, out of hell. Hewas obliged to remain with the Ilurons all that winter. THE IROQUOIS. 137 In 1660 a daring enterprise was undertaken by a few young Canadians,led by Danlac, commandant of the garrison at Montreal. It was knownthat a large body of Iroquois had planned a descent upon Canada, andthese brave fellows thought that by attacking the Indians in their ownhaunts this danger might be averted. Having bound themselves by oathto accept no quarter, made their wills, confessed, and received the sacra-ment—for they were all good Catholics—they set out upon their heroicbut desperate adventure.
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FORTIKIKI) TOWS OF THE OXOXDAGAS. The Thermopylae of this Spartan band was at the foot of the formida-ble rapid called the Long Sault, where the Iroquois were sure to pass.Here, in an old enclosure formed of trunks of small trees planted in a cir-cle, seventeen Frenchmen awaited the savage host. They were soon joinedby some Hurons and Algonkins. 138 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. In a few days they were attacked by a large war party of Iroquois.Again and again the Indians were driven back with loss. The fifth dayfound the defenders of the fort«still at bay, although they had been de-serted by their Indian allies. Five hundred fresh warriors now joinedtheir assailants, and the attacks were fiercely renewed. In vain thevrushed upon the feeble barrier between them and their foe, yelling andtiring; the French stood firm, and many a warrior fell before the leadengreeting of the little garrison. Three days more passed in constant attack and repulse, the French,meanwhile, suffering from ex

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