CHAPTER LV.

Occupations of the victims immediately before the massacre.--Description of the mission buildings.--The Doctor called into the kitchen to be murdered.--Joe Lewis, the leader in the massacre.--The scene outside.--The Doctor's house plundered.--Mrs. Whitman shot.--Brutalities to the dead and dying.--Escape of some and murder of others.--Safety of the French Papists and the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company.--Fate of Joe Lewis. Page 466