From this monograph we learn that torture of captives in Eastern North America should be evaluated as part of the war trophy complex. Territorial aggrandizement was not the cause of war in this area (pp. 152, 153). According to one account the main objects of cruelty (among the Natchez) were the old men: 'they first tore from the latter their clothes and shot them to death with arrows which they generally aimed at the parts of the sex' (p. 159). Some of the descriptions are strongly suggestive of a body destruction fantasy carried out in reality (pp. 193, 215). According to Le Jeune, around the Gulf of Mexico, in the feast preparatory to war, a new born child was shot with arrows, burned, and the ashes consumed (p. 180).