A Jesuit observer has left a painfully detailed description of the doing to death by the Huron of a captured Seneca warrior in 1637. The Seneca, a man of about fifty, still suffering the wounds of his capture, had been briefly adopted into a chief's family, but then rejected because of those wounds and consigned to die by fire. Soon after dark on the appointed night, after the prescribed sequence of feastings, eleven fires were lit down the length of the council house. The people came crowding tightly in, the young men, yelling and joyful, armed with firebrands. (They were warned to temper their enthusiasm so that the victim would last through the night.) The prisoner, singing his warrior's song, was brought in as the chief made the announcement as to how the body would be divided when death finally came. The description continues: