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Updated: June 28, 2025
The Jesuit historian Charlevoix, with complacent exaggeration, says that in that year alone three hundred men were killed on the New England frontier by the Abenaki Indians incited by the French. The numbers slain were in fact fewer and the slain were not always men but sometimes old women and young babies.
The canoe had gone fully four hundred yards when an Abenaki warrior on the far side of the river caught a glimpse of a shadow moving in the shadow of the bank, and a sustained gaze soon showed to him that it was a canoe, and, in his opinion, a derelict, washed by the flood from some camp a long distance up the stream.
Printed, but written in Indian-English. Manuscript: Six Stories of the St. Francis or Abenaki Indians. Taken down by Miss Abby Alger. Osgood's Maritime Provinces. In this work there are seven short extracts relative to Glooskap given without reference to any book or author. Of Glooskap's Birth, and of his Brother Malsum, the Wolf
He watched it for a little while, and was then confirmed in his opinion by its motion as it floated lazily with the current. The darkness was not too great to keep the Abenaki from seeing that it was a good canoe, a fine shell of Iroquois make, and canoes were valuable.
The prisoners, or some of them, were given to the Indians, who tortured one or more of the men, and killed and tormented children and infants with a cruelty not always equalled by their heathen countrymen. Hertel continued his retreat to one of the Abenaki villages on the Kennebec.
With unmoved heart, the patient voyager held his course, and drew up his canoes at last on the beach at Fort Miami. The season was far advanced. On the bare limbs of the forest hung a few withered remnants of its gay autumnal livery; and the smoke crept upward through the sullen November air from the squalid wigwams of La Salle's Abenaki and Mohegan allies.
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