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Jacob Miller with wife and six of his family, together with everything on his plantation underwent the same fate. The 30th, the house, mill, barn, twenty head of cattle, two teams of horses, and everything belonging to the unhappily George Folke, met with the like treatment--himself, wife, and all his miserable family, consisting of nine in number, being inhumanly scalped, then cut in pieces and given to the swine, which devoured them. I shall give another instance of the numberless and unheard of barbarities they related of the savages, and proceed to to their own tragical end. In short, one of the substantial traders belonging to the province, having business that called him some miles up the country, fell into the hands of these devils, who not only scalped 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 called an Indian pudding. From these few instances of savage cruelty, the deplorable situation of the defenceless inhabitants and what they hourly suffered in that part of the globe, must strike the utmost detestation, nor only against the authors of such tragic scenes, but against those who, through perfidy inattention, for pusilianimous and erroneous principles, suffered these savages at first,