e men who first saw Lake
George.

Shortly after the death of Jogues, war broke {165} out again. Nothing
could have exceeded the ferocity of the Five Nations. They boasted that
they intended to sweep the French and their Indian friends off the face
of the earth. No place seemed too remote for them. At the most
unexpected moments of the day or the night they rose, as it seemed, out
of the earth, and, with their blood-curdling war-whoop, fell upon their
intended victims with guns and tomahawks. The poor Algonquins were in a
state of pitiable terror. Nowhere were they safe. Even when they
retired into the wilderness north of the St. Lawrence, they were tracked
by their ruthless foes, slaughtered, burned, and drowned.

We might go on and tell the story of other priests who all fell at the
post of duty and died worthily. But of what use would it be to prolong
these horrors? Enough to say that the Huron nation was almost
annihilated, the feeble remnant left their country and went elsewhere,
and the once promising work of the Jesuits among them ended in fire and
blood.

A small party of the Hurons accompanied the returning priests to the
French settlements and became established, under French protection, near
Quebec, at a place called New Lorette, or Indian {166} Lorette, and
fought by the side of their white friends in later wars. There, to this
day, their descendants, mostly French half-breeds, may be seen engaged in
the harmless occupations of weaving baskets and making moccasins.
Another band wandered away to the far Northwest, came into conflict with
the warlike and powerful Sioux, and, driven back eastward, finally took
up its abode near the sites of Detroit and Sandusky. Under the name of
Wyandots, its descendants played a conspicuous part in our border wars.

[1] The faith of the Indians in a future life was very sincere and
strong. Jonathan Carver tells a touching story of a couple whom he knew
who lost a little son of about four years. They seemed inconsolable.
After a time the father died. Then the mother dried her tears and ceased
her lamentations. When he asked her the reason of this, as it seemed to
him, strange conduct, she answered that she and her husband had grieved
excessively, because they knew that their little boy would be alone in
the other world, without anybody to provide for his wants, but now, his
father having gone to join him, her mind was at rest in the assurance
that the lit