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19 Jaeob Miller, with his wife and six of his family, together with every thing on his plantation, un- derwent the same fate. The 30th, the house, mill, barn, twenty head of eattle, two teams of horses, and every thing belonging to the unhap- py George Folke, met with the like treatment— himself, wife, and all his miserable family, con- sisting of nine in number, being inhumanly scal- ped, then cut in pieces and given to the swine, which devoured them. I shall give another in- stance of the numberless and unheard of barbar- ities they related of the savages, and proceed to their own tragical end. In short, one of the sub- stantial traders belonging to the provinee, having business that ealled him some miles up the coun- try, fell into the hands of these devils, who not only sealped him, but immediately roasted him before he was dead ; then, like cannibals for want of other food, eat his whole body, and of his head made what they ealled an Indian pudding. From these few instances of savage cruelty, the deplorable situation of the defcnceless inhabi- tants, and what they hourly suffered in that part of the globe, must strike the utmost terror to a human soul, and cause in every breast the utmost detestation, nor only against the authors of such tragic scenes, but against those who, through perfidy, inattention, or pusillanimous and errone- ous principles, suffered these savages at first,