Every now and then they stopped and threw water over them to restore them from fainting.

Then they tore out their finger nails and applied fire to the extremities of the fingers.
After that they tore the scalps off their heads, and poured over the raw and bleeding flesh a kind of hot gum.

Then they pierced the arms of the prisoners near the wrists, and drew up their sinews with sticks inserted underneath, trying to tear them out by force, and, if failing, cutting them.

One poor wretch "uttered such terrible cries that it excited my pity to see him treated in this manner, yet at other times he showed such firmness that one would have said he suffered scarcely any pain at all".
In this case Champlain, seeing that the man could not recover from his injuries, drew apart and shot him dead, "thus putting an end to all the tortures he would have suffered".
But the savage Hurons were not yet satisfied.

They opened the corpse and threw its entrails into the lake.