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14 they immediately, without the least remorse, with more than brutal cruelty, scalped the tender parents and the unhappy children; nor  the tears, the shrieks, or cries of these  victims prevent their horrid massacre; for  thus scalped them, and plundered the house  every thing that was moveable, they set fire  the same, where the poor creatures met  final doom amidst the flames, the hellish miscreants standing at the door, or as near the  as the flames would permit them, rejoicing  echoing back, in their diabolical manner,  piercing cries, heart-rending groans, and paternal and affectionate soothings, which issued from this most horrid sacrifice of an innocent family, not contented with what they had already  they still continued their inordinate villiany,  making a general conflagration of the barn  stables, together with all the corn, horses,  and every thing on the place.

Thinking the young man belonging to unhappy family would be of some service to  in carrying part of their plunder, they spared  life, and loaded him and myself with what  had here got, and again marched to the  Hills, where they stowed their goods as  My fellow-sufferer could not long bear the  treatment which we were both obliged to  and complaining bitterly to me of being