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15 proceed any farther, I endeavoured to condole as much as lay in my power, to bear up  his afflietionsafflictions [sic], and wait with patieneepatience [sic] till, by  divine assistance, we should be delivered out their clutehesclutches [sic]; but in vain, for he still  his moans and tears, which one of the  perceiving as we travelled on, instantly eamecame [sic] to us, and with his tomahawk gave him a  on the head, which felled the unhappy youth  the ground, where they immediately  sealpedscalped [sic]  left him. The suddenness of this murder me to that degree, that I was in a  like a statue, being quite motionless,  my fate would soon be the same; however,  my distracted thoughts, I dissembled  uneasiness and anguish which I felt, as well  I could, from the barbarians; but such was  terror that I was under, that for some time I  knew the days of the week, or what I did, that, at this period, life indeed became a  to me, and I regretted being saved from my t perseeutorspersecutors [sic], the sailors.

The horrid faetfact [sic] being eompletedcompleted [sic], they kept on course near the mountains, where they lay  four or five days, rejoicing at the  and store they had got. When provisions searcescarce [sic], they made their way towards quehana, where still, to add to the many  they had already committed, passing near