...XLIII, 303. 'Jes. Rel., XLIII, 295. Cf. XLII, 137; XLIII, 299; XLIII, 295— " When a Barbarian splits the head of his slave with a hatchet, they say: 'It...nothing to be done but to cast it upon the dunghill.'" 'Jes. Rel., XLII, 57. 5 Jes. Rel., XLIII, 293: "... those who, having willingly submitted to the yoke...

...in particular, carry the heaviest loads. Recalcitrants were killed on the spot. As for their bodies, 'It is a dead dog; there is nothing to be done but to cast it upon the dunghill.'338 If captive children hampered their new mother's work, they were eliminated.339 An oft-told...

...chiefly of young women or girls, who, because they have not yet found a husband among the Iroquois, are constantly exposed to the danger of losing their honors...nothing to be done but to cast it upon the dunghill." JR, 44:29 [*Plots rumored in Oneida against the French.] We were preparing to start on the journey...

...chiefly of young women or girls, who, because they have not yet found a husband among the Iroquois, are constantly exposed to the danger of losing their honors...a consumptive disease, was cured by her mistress, who killed her with as much inhumanity as she had previously manifested kindness toward her, when she...

...unceremonious death. When an Iroquois "has split the head of his slave with a hatchet," observed Le Jeune, "they say: 'It is a dead dog; there is nothing to be done but to cast it upon the dunghill.' " Like Le Jeune, many seventeenth-century Euro-Americans referred to the captives as "slaves," a word...