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ratherer than meet with certain death, by rejecting them; and, accordingly, went out of my house with my gun in my hand; not knowing what I did, or that I had it. Immediately on my approach, they rushed on me like so many tigers, and instantly disarmed me. Having me thus in their power, the merciless villians bound me to the near the door; they then went into the house, and plundered and destroyed everything, carrying of what moveables they could; the rest, together with the house, they set fire to, and consumed before my eyes. The barbarians not satisfied with this, set fire to my barn, stable, and out houses, wherein were about 200 Bushels of wheat, six cows, four Horses, and five sheep, which were entirely, consumed to ashes. During the conflagration to describe the thoughts, the fears, and misery that I felt, is utterly impossible, after this, they untied me, and gave me a great load to carry on my back, under which I travelled all that night with them, full of the most terrible apprehensions, and oppressed with greatest anxiety of mind, lest my unhappy wife should likewise have fallen a prey to those cruel monsters. At day-break, my infernal master's ordered me to lay down my load, when, tieing my hands again round a tree with a small cord, they then forced the blood out of my finger-ends. They then kindled a fire near the