The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-04-21
CHAPTER XVIII.
OF THE IROCUOIs

The faith of the Iroquois was worse
than Punic, nor was there lacking
swift proof of its real nature. Law
and Pembroke, the moment they had
led their little garrison beyond the
gate, found themselves surrounded by
ring of tomahawks and drawn bows
Their weapons were snatched away
found themselves beyond all POSSIBLE
ity of that resistance whose giving
over they now bitterly repented. Teg-
anisoris regarded them with a sar-
dOnic smile.
Il see you are all English" said he,
though some of you wear blue coats.
These we may perhaps adopt into our
tribe, for our boys grow up but slowly,
and some of the blue coats are good
fighters These dogs of Illini we shall
of course burn. AS for your war
house, you will no longer need it, since
you are now friends of the Iroquois,
and are going to their villages. You
may say to Corlaer that you we'll know
the lroquois have no prisoners.
The horrid significance of this threat
was all too soon made plain. In an
hour the little stockade was but
mass of embers and ashes. In another
hour the little valley had become
Gehenna of anguish and lamentations,
with whose riot of grief and woe there
mingled the savage Civilizations of
foe whose treachery was but surpassed
by his cruelty. Again the planting
ground of the Ilini was utterly laid
waste, to mark it naught remaining
but trampled grain, and heaps Of ashes,
and remnants Of blackened and incin-
Grated bones. BY nightfall the party
of prisoners had begun wild journey
through the wilderness, whose horrors
surpassed any they had supposed to be
humanity endurable.
Day after day, week after week. for
more than a month, and much of the
time>in winter weather, they toiled on,
part of the way by boat, the remain
der of the journey on foot, crossing
snow-clogged forest, and tangled
thicket and frozen morass, yet daring
not to drop out for rest, since to lag
might mean to die. 1t was as though
after some frightful nightmare of suf-
fering and despair that at length they
reached the villages of the Five Ma
tions, located far to the east, at the
foot of the great waterway which
Law and his family had assembled more
than year before.
Yet If that which had gone before
seemed like some bitter dream, surely
the day of awakening promised but lit
tie better hope. From village to vii
lage, footsore and Ill, they were hur-
ried without rest, at each new stopping
place the central figures of a barbar-
Gus triumph; and nowhere did they
meet the representatives of either the
French or the English government.
whose expected presence had consti-
tuted their one ground of hope.
where is your big peace?" asked
Teganisoris of Pembroke. Where are
the head men of Corlaer? Who brings
presents to the IroQuois, and who Is
to tell us that Onontio has carried the
pipe of peace to Corlaer? Here are
our villages as when we left them,
and here again are we. save for tho
absent ones who have been killed by
your young men. 1t Is no wonder that
my people are displeased."
Indeed those Of the Iroquois who had
remained at home clamored continu-
ally that some Of the prisoners should
be given over to them. Thus, in doubt,
uncertainty and terror the party passed
through the villages, moving always
eastward, until at length they arrived
at the fortified town where Tegansoris
moda his homo a snnt toward tho foot