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American Anecdotes.
sharp hatchet with great force ; and that if his preparation-failed of its intention , he begged they might inflict upon him the most severe death which they could possibly devise . Having thus delivered himself to his savage auditors , he laid his head upon a block , when the chief squaw took a hatchet , and applied it to his neck to so good purpose , that she chopped off his head at one blow , to the great astonishment as well as disappointment of the whole tribe , who had assera ~ gether upon this important occasion .
SOME time in the year 1758 , several French traders sailed up the river Missisippi in their barks , in order to trade with a tribe of Indians who inhabit the banks of that river , and who were then in the French interest . The French , on their arrival , found them on the eve of going to war with a neighbouring tribe , and that they would therefore be under the necessity of applying for a large quantity of
gunpowder , in order to enable them to prosecute it with vigour . The French were not mistaken in their conjecture ; the Indians made application for all the powder which they could spare , and to inform them of the manner of cultivating it . In lieu thereof , the Indians undertook to load their barks , with the choicest furs they were masters of . French finesse was immediately stretched to its utmost extremity ; they agreed to give all the powder which could be spared for
their immediate use , and likewise to instruct them in the cultivation of powder , by supplying them with a sufficient quantity of seed-powder . For this purpose they gave those deluded creatures some coarse cannon powder , with instructions for sowing it in the fields , telling them , that at the end of six weeks they would be able to reap a plentiful crop . Tiie credulity of the poor Indians made them very careful in watching their powder for weeksmonthsand even a
twelve-, , month , without reaping any advantage from their indefatigable assiduity ; they now , though too late , discovered the duplicity of the French , and therefore vowed revenge . It was not long before they had an opportunity of gratifying that passion . A large body of French traders having arrived amongst them , and even several of those who had contributed to render them such egregious duper , the
French proposed , as usual , to barter European merchandise for furs . The Indians , instead of acquiescing with their desire , made themselves masters of their barks , at the same time seizing their persons , and putting every one of them to death , by making them suffer the most exquisite tortures which their revengeful dispositions could invent . This tribe of Indians , soon after their having thus experienced French deceit and perfidy , abandoned their interest , and joined that of the English .
IN the year 1759 , the Mikmak Indians , who inhabited the province of Nova Scotia arid its nei ghbourhood , were excited by the Canadian . Government , and principally . Mons . St . Luc , the famous Indian partizan , to commit all possible barbarities upon the then recently settled colony of Chedebuctou . All the English residents whom they could . lay hands on were tormented according to savage manners . Some of
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American Anecdotes.
sharp hatchet with great force ; and that if his preparation-failed of its intention , he begged they might inflict upon him the most severe death which they could possibly devise . Having thus delivered himself to his savage auditors , he laid his head upon a block , when the chief squaw took a hatchet , and applied it to his neck to so good purpose , that she chopped off his head at one blow , to the great astonishment as well as disappointment of the whole tribe , who had assera ~ gether upon this important occasion .
SOME time in the year 1758 , several French traders sailed up the river Missisippi in their barks , in order to trade with a tribe of Indians who inhabit the banks of that river , and who were then in the French interest . The French , on their arrival , found them on the eve of going to war with a neighbouring tribe , and that they would therefore be under the necessity of applying for a large quantity of
gunpowder , in order to enable them to prosecute it with vigour . The French were not mistaken in their conjecture ; the Indians made application for all the powder which they could spare , and to inform them of the manner of cultivating it . In lieu thereof , the Indians undertook to load their barks , with the choicest furs they were masters of . French finesse was immediately stretched to its utmost extremity ; they agreed to give all the powder which could be spared for
their immediate use , and likewise to instruct them in the cultivation of powder , by supplying them with a sufficient quantity of seed-powder . For this purpose they gave those deluded creatures some coarse cannon powder , with instructions for sowing it in the fields , telling them , that at the end of six weeks they would be able to reap a plentiful crop . Tiie credulity of the poor Indians made them very careful in watching their powder for weeksmonthsand even a
twelve-, , month , without reaping any advantage from their indefatigable assiduity ; they now , though too late , discovered the duplicity of the French , and therefore vowed revenge . It was not long before they had an opportunity of gratifying that passion . A large body of French traders having arrived amongst them , and even several of those who had contributed to render them such egregious duper , the
French proposed , as usual , to barter European merchandise for furs . The Indians , instead of acquiescing with their desire , made themselves masters of their barks , at the same time seizing their persons , and putting every one of them to death , by making them suffer the most exquisite tortures which their revengeful dispositions could invent . This tribe of Indians , soon after their having thus experienced French deceit and perfidy , abandoned their interest , and joined that of the English .
IN the year 1759 , the Mikmak Indians , who inhabited the province of Nova Scotia arid its nei ghbourhood , were excited by the Canadian . Government , and principally . Mons . St . Luc , the famous Indian partizan , to commit all possible barbarities upon the then recently settled colony of Chedebuctou . All the English residents whom they could . lay hands on were tormented according to savage manners . Some of