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5 was dead amongst them. called himself a Protestant, and M,Queen, Roman Catholic—that is, they had sprung  parents professing these persuasions;, as for themselves, they had neither of  least spark of religion; they knew no  what it was than the earth on which  trod. They walked in each other’s, the one carrying his luckless body for support of the other wherever it might be for him to sacrifice him for the eal. Five times worse than the wretched of Abyssinians, who cut the flesh,  they travel, from the back of the living.

As soon as the provisions which they had to carry with them were exhausted,  other four agreed among themselves to  Hutchinson, and to eat his body for ; and they drew lots among them who  be the one to drive the fatal axe into  head. The lot fell on Robertson, who it into execution. They cut the body piecs, and carried it with them, with the exception of the hands, feet, and intestines.

They ate heartily of it, as Robertson it. It lasted them some days; and when was nearly all consumed, a general alarm seized the whole party. The greatest prevailed about carrying the axe, and