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18 his heart-rending groans and piteous wailings. One night after he had thus been tormented vhilst he and I were sitting together, eondoling eaeh other at the misfortunes and miseries we daily suffered, twenty sealps and three prisoners were brought in by another party of Indians. They had unhappily fallen in their hands in Cannojigge, a small town near the river Susque- hana, chiefly inhabited by the Irish. These prisoners gave us some shoeking aeeounts of the murders and devastations committed in their parts. The various and complicated aetions of these bar- barians would entirely fill a large volume ; but what I have already written, with a few other instanees which I shall select from the informa- tion, will enable the reader to guess at the horrid treatment the English, and Indians in their in- terest, suffered for many years past. I shall therefore only mention, in a brief manner, those that suffered near the same time with myself. This party who now joined us, had it not, I found, in their power to begin their wiekedness as soon as those who visited my habitation, the first of their tragedies being on the 25th day of October, 1754, when John Lewis, with his wife and three small children, fell sacrifices to their cruelty, and were miserably sealped and mur- dered, his house, barn, and every thing he pos- sessed being burnt and destroyed. On the 28th,