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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, they offered some to me, though it is easily imagined. I had but little appetite to eat, after the tortures and miseries I had undergone, yet was I forced to seem pleased with what they offered me, Jest, by refusing it, they had again resumed their hellish practices. 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 before, in which deplorable, condition was I forced to continue 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 arrived at a spot near the Apalachian mountains, where they hid their plunder under logs of wood, and Oh, shocking to relate from thence did these hellish monsters proceed to a neighbouring house, occupied by one Joseph, Spider and his unhappy family, consisting of his wifey five children, and a young man, his servant. They soon got admittance into the unfortunate man's house, where