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13 sat round the fire and roasted their meat of  they had robbed my dwelling. When had prepared it, and satisfied their voracious, they offered some to me; though it is  imagined I had but little appetite to eat,  the tortures and miseries I had undergone,  was I foreedforced [sic] to seem pleased with what they ered me, lest, by refusing it, they had again  their hellish praetieespractices [sic]. What I could eat, I contrived to get between the bark and  tree where I was fixed, they having unbound  hands until they imagined I had eat all they  me; but then they again bound me as  in which deplorable condition was I foreedforced [sic]  continue all that day. When the sun was set, put out the fire, and covered the ashes with, as is their usual custom, that the white  might not discover any traeestraces [sic] or signs of  having been there.

Going from thence along by the river, for the of six miles, loaded as I was before, we arrived at a spot near the Apalachian mountains,  they hid their plunder under logs of wood;  Oh, shocking to relate! from thence did these monsters proceed to a neighbouring house,  by one Joseph Snider and his unhappy, consisting of his wife, five children, and , his servant. They soon got  into the unfortunate man's house, where