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12 tree whereto I was bound, which filled me with dreadful agonies, eoneludingconcluding [sic] I was going to be made a saerifieesacrifice [sic] to their barbarity.

The fire being thus made, they for some time daneeddanced [sic] round me after their manner, with various odd motions and antic gestures, whooping, halloeing, and eryingcrying [sic] in a frightful manner, as it is their eustomcustom [sic]. Having satisfied themselves in this sort of their mirth, they proceeded in a more tragical manner, taking the burning and stiekssticks [sic], flaming with fire at the ends, holding them near my faeeface [sic], head, hands, and feet, with a deal of monstrous pleasure and satisfaetionsatisfaction [sic], and at shethe [sic] same time threatening to burn me entirely if I made the least noise or motion of my body. Thus tortured, as I was, almost to death, suffered their brutal pleasure without being allowed to vent my inexpressible anguish than by shedding tears; even which, when  inhuman tormentors observed, with a  pleasure and alacrity, they would take fresh eoalcoal [sic] and apply near my eyes, telling me my faeeface [sic]  wet, and that they would dry it for me. How suffered these tortures, I have here faintly described, has been matter of wonder to me  times; but God enabled me to wait with  than common patience for a deliverance I  prayed for.

Having at length satisfied their brutal