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epidemic were afraid to admit them within the fort, but received them in a cabin outside the palisade. Suddenly the savages raised a wild war whoop and falling upon the Frenchmen who came out, forced their way into the fort and massacred all the inmates. Only the Talon children, together with an Italian youth and a young man from Paris, named Breman, were saved by the Indian women who carried them on their backs. L'Archeveque and Grollet had gone to live among the Indians before the attack and it was not until after the little band had been massacred that they came to the scene of the tragic end of their com- panions, where, according to their declarations, they buried fourteen corpses. 36
3 6 Parkman, op. cit., 468-47 I.
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