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to proceed any farther, I endeavoured to condole him as much as lay in my power, to bear up under his afflictions, and wait with patience till by the divine, assistance, we should be delivered out of their clutches, but in vain, for he still contiued, his moans and tears, which one of the savages, perceiving as we travelled on, instantly came up to us, and with his tomahawk gave a blow on the head, which felled the unhappy youth to the ground, where they immediately scalped and left him. The suddenness of this murder shocked me to that degree, that I was in a manner like a statue, being quite motionless, expecting my fate, would soon be the same; however, recovering my distracted thoughts, I dissembled the uneasiness and anguish which I felt as well as I could, from the barbarians; but, such was the terror that I was under, that for some time I şcarce knew the days of the week, or what I did; so that, at this period, life indeed became a burden to me, and I regretted being saved from my first persecutors, the sailors. The horrid fact being completed, they kept on their course near the mountains, where they lay sculking four or five days, rejoicing at the plunder and store they had got. When provisions became scarce, they made their way towards Susqueharia, where still, to add to the many barbarities they had already committed, passing near