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auoient donne la liberte, & le tenoiet comme vn d'entr'eux, ils furent emportez de la promptitude, & le sang esmeu a quelques-vns plus qu'aux autres se seroient aduancez, ne se pouuans contenir, ny commander a leur colere, & auroient tue cet homme dont est question : mais pour cela ils n'en vouloient nullement a toute la nation, & n'auoient dessein plus auant a l'encontre de cet audacieux, & qu'il auoit bien merite ce qu'il auoit eu, puis qu'ill'auoit luy-mesme recherche. Et d'ailleurs, qu'il falloit remarquer que l'Entouhonoron 1 se sentant 拢rape de deux coups dedans le ventre, arracha le cousteau de sa playe, que son ennemy y auoit laisse, & luy en donna deux coups, a ce qu'on m'auoit certifie: de fa~on qu'on ne pouuoit s~auoir au vray si c'estoient Algommequins qui eussent tue. Et pour monstrer aux Attigouantan[s] que les Algommequins n'aimoient pas le prisonnier, & que Yroquet ne luy portoit pas tant d'affection comme ils pensoient bien, ils l'auoient mange, d'autant qu'il auoit donne des coups de whom they had freed and regarded as one of themselves, they were carried away by passion, and some, having their blood more stirred than others, had come forward, unable to control themselves or restrain their anger, and had killed the man in question. But for all that, they by no means bore a grudge against the whole tribe, and had no further purpose beyond dealing with this rash man, and thought that he well deserved what he had got, since he had brought it on himself. And besides it must be noted that the Entouhonoron,1 when he felt himself twice stabbed in the belly, tore from his wound the knife which his adversary had left there, and gave the latter two stabs with it, as I had been assured ; so that it could not be known for certain if it was the Algonquins that had done the slaying. And to show the Attigouantans that the Algonquins had no liking for the prisoner, and that Yroquet did not bear him so much affection as they supposed, they had eaten him because he had stabbed his enemy, a thing, 1
Seep. 283 supra.