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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 39 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] An old man, also captured, did not experience the same fate. M. le Comte's intention, after he had interrogated him, was to spare his life on account of his great age, but the savages who had taken him and to whom he was given were so excited that it was not deemed prudent to dissuade them from the desire they felt to burn him. He had, no doubt, prepared himself during his long fife to die with firmness, however cruel the tortures he should have to endure. Not the slightest complaint