Denonville in his journal makes mention of the cannibalistic propensities of the Mohawks in no very flattering terms. He describes them as opening dead bodies while still warm, and having cut them into quarters like butchers’ meat, placed the pieces in their kettles to boil. Frontenac, in one of his characteristic documents to his rebellious children of Mi-chillimack-mac, asks, “Will you let the English brandy that has killed you in your wigwams lure you into the kettles of the Iroquois?” This same renowned representative of Louis XIV., on one occasion even invoked a band of _Ottawas_ to roast an Iroquois newly caught by his soldiers; but as they had hamstrung him to prevent his escape, he bled to death before he could be served up. The Ottawas had a strong craving for human food, and sometimes a tender-hearted Jesuit priest would be missing from his field of labor. Lonvigny reverts to a spectacle which he witnessed where a number of this tribe fastened a prisoner to a stake and began to torture him; but as the poor wretch did not show sufficient courage, they refused to boil him. The French missionary Brebeuf gives an account of the fate of certain prisoners captured by the _Hurons_. He states that when the victims showed courage, their hearts were taken out, cut into small pieces, roasted and given to the braves to increase their courage. The Jesuit fathers, who labored in Canada in the early part of the seventeenth century, give the most explicit testimony to the existence of cannibal tribes in that dominion, and they admit in many cases they were eye-witnesses of their orgies. Lagard, in his “Voyage des Hurons,” shows that among the _Miamis_ there existed a religious tribe of man-eaters who devoured the hearts of their brave enemies, not from revenge or ferocity, but with the old idea that it inspired the eater with fortitude. La Potherie observes that in one instance the Ottawas drank broth concocted from the remains of an Iroquois chief who fell into the hands of his enemies. The victim was made fast to a stake, and a Frenchman who was with the Indians gave him a sort of preliminary preparation for the pot by burning him with a red-hot gun barrel. According to Nadenltoc, Sitting Bull’s band of Sioux Indians opened the breasts and devoured the hearts of the soldiers slain by them. The Creek and Blackfeet tribes are also said by Farrand, a missionary for fifteen years among them, to have eaten their prisoners on the field of battle.