their mouthes instead of Sugar. Amongst many
who were forced to run away bare foot and bare
legg'd, several persons of great quality had their
legs and feet so long frozen by snow and ice, that
they have altogether lost them.
On the morrow after, being the 21. the boutefeus
and murtherers were not idle. A Monk, of
the Orders of S. Francis, and a Priest, who were
desirous to have the honor to be the chief incendiaries,
with their fire works (which they easily
could do) did not fail to set on fire the Church
of S. John, and almost all the remaining houses,
part in Angrogne, and part in la Tour. And where
they found any corner free from the first fires, the
Priest did but discharge his carbine to make an
end of it; and the Souldiers being fleshed with
blood, did run to the very tops of the Rocks and
places, which seemed to be inaccessible, to cut the
throats of all such as they should find there. It
was not a difficult thing to them so to do, since
they were not in a posture to make any other resistance,
but by their tears, which might have
caused the most barbarous Tartarians and Cannibals,
to let fall their arms out of their hands.
At Taillareta, a very small village scituated upon
one of the highest hills of la Tour, they offered
a thousand injuries to an hundred and fifty Women
and little children, and then cut off their
heads; where of they did boil many, and eat their
brains, but left off, saying, they were too unsavoury,
and that it went against their stomach;
they cut many others in pieces and bits, which
they threw the one at the other. From a poor
woman that escaped them, and is yet living, although