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18 his heart-rending groans and piteous wailing. One night after he had thus been whilst he and I were sitting together,  eaeheach [sic] other at the misfortunes and miseries  daily suffered, twenty sealpsscalps [sic] and three  were brought in by another party of  They had unhappily fallen in their hands  Cannojigge, a small town near the river Susquahana, chiefly inhabited by the Irish. prisoners gave us some shoekingshocking [sic] aeeountsaccounts [sic] of murders and devastations committed in their The various and complieatedcomplicated [sic] aetionsactions [sic] of these barbarians would entirely fill a large volume;  what I have already written, with a few  instaneesinstances [sic] whiehwhich [sic] I shall select from the information, will enable the reader to guess at the  treatment the English, and Indians in their, suffered for many years past. I therefore only mention, in a brief manner,  that suffered near the same time with  This party who now joined us, had it not found, in their power to begin their  as soon as those who visited my habitation,  first of their tragedies being on the 25th day  October, 1754, when John Lewis, with his  and three small ehildrenchildren [sic], fell sacrifices to  erueltycruelty [sic], and were miserably sealpedscalped [sic] and, his house, barn, and every thing he  being burnt and destroyed. On the