] so
that more than two hundred savages of both sexes perished thereby.
In 1749, towards the end of the month of May, at a time that the
suspension of arms between the two crowns was not yet known in New
France, the savages, having made prisoners two Englishmen of
Newfoundland, had from these same prisoners the first news of the
cessation of hostilities. They believed them on their bare words,
expressed their satisfaction to them, treated them like brothers,
unbound them, and carried them to their huts. The said prisoners rose in
the night, and massacred twenty-five of these savages, men, women, and
children. There were but two of the savages escaped this carnage, by
being accidentally not present. [_How improbable is the whole of this
story?_]
Towards the end of the same year, the English being come to Chibuckto,
made the report be every where spread [The missionaries in those parts
might indeed raise such reports; the which giving the savages an
aversion to the English, forced them to take hostile measures against
them in their own defence: but who would suspect the English themselves
of raising them, in direct opposition to their own interest?], that they
were going to destroy all the savages.
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