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they sat round the fire and roasted their meat of which they had robbed my dwelling. When they had prepared it, and satisfied their voracious appetites, thcy offercd some to me ; though it is easily imagined I had but little appetite to eat, after the tortures and miseries I had undcrgone, yet was I forced to seem plcased with what they offered me, lest, by rcfusing it, they had again resumed their hellish praetices. What I could not eat, I contrived to get between the bark and the tree where I was fixed, they having unbound my hands until they imagined I had eat all they gave me ; but then they again bound me as bc- fore, in whieh dcplorable condition was I foreed to eontinue all that day. When the sun was set, they put out the fire, and covered the ashes with leaves, as is their usual custom, that the white people might not discover any traces or signs of their having been there. Going from thence along by the river, for the space of six miles, loaded as I was before, we ar- rived at a spot near the Apalachian mountaius, where they hid their plunder under logs of wood , and Oh, shocking to relate I from thenee did these hellish monsters proceed to a neighbouring house, occupied by one Joseph Snider and his unhappy family, consisting of his wife, five ehildren, and a young man, his servant. They soon got ad- mittance into the unfortunate man's house, where