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21 manner—his arms were tied close to his, and a hole being dug deep enough for him  stand upright, he was put therein, and earth med and beat in all round his body, up to the , so that his head only appeared above the ; they then scalped him, and there let  remain for three or four hours in the  agonies; after which they made a small fire  his head, causing him to suffer the most  torments imaginable, whilst the poor  could only cry for mereymercy [sic] in killing him , for his brains were boiling in his. Inexorable to all his plaints, they the fire, whilst, shoekingshocking [sic] to behold, his eyes hed out of their sockets; and such agonizing  did the unhappy creature suffer for near  hours till he was quite dead! They then off his head and buried it with the other es-my task being to dig the graves, which, le and terrified as I was, the dread of  the same fate, enabled me to do. I shall here take up the reader's time, in vainly to describe what I felt on such an occasion, but continue my narrative, as more equal  abilities.

great snow now falling, the barbarians were le fearful lest the white people should, by traces, find out their skulking retreats,  obliged them to make the best of their