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Indians return to Bayfield Park Camp counsellor Shelley Moisey leads a group of campers in a demonstration of Indian tom-tom playing a t the Day Camp parent's night at Bayfield Park Daycamp parents' night last Thursday night. The parents got into the action along with the children and appeared to enjoy the occasion. Staff photo held last Thursday The parents of children attending the day camp at Bayfield Park over the past two weeks got a chance to see what day camp is all about last Thursday night. The children put on skits and sang songs, the counsellors told stories, and the parents even Explodes in Bay joined in on a few songs. The high point irf the evening for the parents was the volleyball game between the counsellors and the parents. The parents won by a score of 15 to 8. Crests were presented to the group of children who were the most operative and _ well behaved. The day camp was put on by the Simcoe County Recreation Department. The counsellors put on a number of two week sessions around the county in places where there is no regular day camp organized by the municipality. Boat destroyed by fire The Midland detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Police report a fire which destroyed a boat on Georgian Bay over the weekend. Lother Junerman of Toronto stopped his boat to fish some half mile west of Quarry Island, put it in reverse and the boat exploded into flames. injured in the accident which demolished the 22 foot home-made boat. He was picked up by a near by boater who witnessed Junerman was not the fire. Children's workshops at Naval and Military Establishments Nature and en- vironment of the 19th century will be the theme of children's workshops to be held at the Historic Naval and Military Establishments here, four times through late July and August. Children from 10 to 12 years are invited to at- tend, free of charge, any one of the four sessions. They are scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 27-29; August 3-5; August 10-12; and August 17-19. There is a maximum of 12 children per workshop. The sessions go from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and children should take their lunches. "The children will participate in such things as spinning, weaving, pioneer handicrafts, sketching murals, pup- petry, military tactics, naturelore and some archaeology work," said Establishments Program Supervisor Wendy Budsombe. In addition there will be sports and recreational activities under the supervision of qualified instructors. Miss Buscombe stressed that the small groups of 12 children per session will allow for each child to become fully involved in the activities. Since the program is being repeated four times, 48 children from the Penetanguishene area can take part. The workshop is open to both girls and boys from Penetanguishene and any of the surrounding beaches. Children must be registered by their parents in advance for any of the sessions on a first come, first served basis. Registration forms can be obtained from the Penetanguishene town offices, Penetanguishene library or at the Historic Naval and Military Establishments, at the end of Church Street. Be sure to ask for the "Naval and Military Establish- ments Children's Workshop" registration forms. Further _ in- formation can be ob- tained by telephoning 549- 7456. The Establishments is a reconstruction of a 19th century British naval base and military garrison. "'Explorers" to this historic site see life as it was for sailors isolated in the Upper Canada wilderness; for families finding life in a military garrison agreeable and for soldiers who were at. the Establishments during peaceful years. This is a typical British outpost of the period. The more than 15 buildings have been furnished with period antiques. The site is open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Labour Day. 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A discredited general might be sealed into a barrel spiked with nails and rolled down a hill, or be placed in a basket full of wasps and stung to death. Some of these methods of torture and cruelty naturally came to North America with the Europians. In 1649, in New France, a 16-year- old girl was hanged for theft. Ironically, it was the American Indians who became notorious in Europe for their ingenious methods of torture. This is in some measure due to the publication in Europe of the Jesuit Relations, yearly accounts written by the missionaries, that sometimes told blood- curdling stories of Indian torture. The Jesuits saw Indian cruelty and torture first- hand. Father St. Jean de Brebeuf was a victim of Iroquois wrath, and so were seven of his fellow priests. It was the martyring of Brebeuf in 1649 that marked the end of the mission to Huronia, and the 10-year struggle of the Jesuits to maintain the mission headquarters known as Sainte-Marie. The mission has been re- created as Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, located three miles east of Midland on Highway 12. It is open on every day this summer. It's a tranquil scene now. Costumed craftsmen perform their daily chores just as the Jesuit priests and their lay- helpers did in the 1640's, and with the same tools. They make corn-bread, cut and square-off tim- ber, forge nails and door- hinges--without, of course, the threat of Iroquois attack. But in the 1640's that threat loomed heavily over the inhabitants of the isolated mission. Their fear was warranted, for the Huron and Iroquois had their own brand of torture that easily rivalled the methods of the Europeans. But there was one difference. North American Indians did not torture people in the enforcement of obscure, unfair or unnecessary laws. Their torture was symbolic. It avenged the death of fellow tribesmen in war. Still, Indian torture was cruel, and involved some forms of ritualistic cannibalism. To start, the prisoner's fingernails were pulled out, and his fingers cut- off. Upon arrival at the village, the torture began, and could last up to six days. He was led into the longhouse and stripped of his clothes, his hands bound together. He now ran the gauntlet. Making his way back and forth along the length of the longhouse, he was prodded with brands and smouldering pieces of bark. Then, the bones of his hands were broken, his ears pierced with burning sticks and his wrists burned or severed, On the morning the prisoner was to die, a platform was erected outside the village. Now they began to attack his vital organs. The prisoner was made to eat pieces of his own flesh, and brands were thrust down his throat and into his eyes. Later he was scalped and burning pitch poured over his head. When it was clear that death was imminent, his head was either cut off or broken open with a club. At the same time, the heart was cut out and his hands and feet chopped off. If the prisoner had been particularly brave throughout this ordeal, his heart would be roasted and eaten by the young braves of the village. In this way, they hoped to acquire some of his courage. The, prisoner's body was then cooked and eaten. Some ate the body with horror; others relished the taste of human flesh Certainly this platform torture was vicious, but it should be balanced against the barbarism of European torture, where Water Well Drill of the Environment Member OWWA WATER WELLS for the Reasonable Rates Prompt Service A Family Name in Well Drilling for nearly 70 years. Pump Sales & Service Licenced by Ministry HOME-COTTAGE-FARM ing CF 1D-C.\ P.0_4D. IOS Te3 [1S PaO JULY 18th 2 Days NIAGARA FALLS From *47.00 JULY 23rd 23 Days WEST COAST From *545.00 JULY 28th From *46.00 2 Days GANANOQUE Nova Scotia From AUG. 7th 6 Days MINI CRUISE -Ausable Chasm 5215.00 SEPT 11th 8 Days From *184.00 NEW ENGLAND-CAPE COD x Available from PMCL Tours, Midland only. 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