Meantime, the French Canadian inhabitants of the fort looked on calmly, neither intervening to stop the Indians, nor suffering any injury from them.

Realizing that all his fellow countrymen were practically destroyed, Henry endeavoured to hide himself.

He entered the house of his next-door neighbour, a Frenchman, and found the whole family at the windows gazing at the scene of blood before them.

He implored this Frenchman to put him into some place of safety until the massacre was over.

The latter merely shrugged his shoulders and intimated that he could do nothing for him; but a Pani Indian woman, a slave of this Frenchman, beckoned to Henry to follow her, and hid him in a garret.