THE OJIBWAY NATION. 93

by their actions testified their joy that a day of general
feasting had arrived. Their

¢ Slaughter heaped on high its weltering ranks.”

Death made a throne of the bodies of the slain, and
arm in arm with his hand in hand, friend Despair as-
cended and ruled the day.

The fourth village which they attacked was at the
mouth of the Otonabee, on Rice Lake, where several
hundreds were slain. The bodies were in two heaps :
one of which was the slain of the Iroquois ; the other of
the Ojibways. '

Panic-struck the Iroquois collected their remaining
forces in Percy, now Lewis’s Farm, where for two days
and nights they fought like wild beasts. Their shrieks
and shouts were heard on each side of the river Trent,
so madly did they rush upon destruction.

Of this band of warriors, one alone was saved. The
women and children were spared to wander in solitary
anguish, and mourn over husbands and fathers whose
boues were before them,—sad memorials of desolating
war. At this day grms of various descriptions are to
be found, such as war-clubs, axes, spears, knives, arrow-
heads and tomahawks scattered with human bones.

The fifth and last battle was fought on an island