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his heart-rending groans and piteous wailings. One night after he had thus been tormented, whilst he and I were sitting together, consoling each other at the misfortunes and miseries we daily suffered, twenty scalps and three prisoners were brought in by another party of Indians. They had unhappily fallen in their hands Cannojigge, a small town near the river Susquehana, chiefly inhabited by the Irish. These prisoners gave us some shocking accounts of the murders and devastations committed in their parts. The various and complicated actions of these barbarians would entirely fill a large volume; but what I have already written, with a few few other instances which I shall select from the information, will enable the reader to guess at the horrid treatment the English and Indians in their interest, 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 wickedness as soon as those who visited my habitation, the first of their tragedies being on the 25th day of October, 1754, when miserably scalped and murdered, his house, barn and everything he possessed being burnt and destroyed. On the 28th