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cruel manner--his arms were tied close to his body, and a Hole being dug deep enough for him to stand upright, he was put therein, and earth rammed and beat in all round his body, up to the neck, so that his head only appeared above the ground, they then scalped him, and there let him remain for three or four hours in the greatest agonies, after which they made a small fire near his head, causing him to suffer the most excruciating torments imaginable, whilst the poor creature could only cry for mercy in killing him immediately, for his brains were boiling in his head. Inexorable to all his plaints, they continued the fire, whilst, shocking to behold, his eyes gushed out of their sockets, and such agonizing torments did the unhappy creature suffer for near two hours till he was quite dead! They then cut off his head and buried it with the other bodies-- my task being dig to graves, which, feeble and terrified as I was, the dread of suffering the same fate, enabled me to do. I shall not here take up the readers time, in vainly attempting to describe what I felt on such an occasion, but continue my narrative; as more equal to my abilities. A great snow now falling the barbarian's were a little fearful lest the white people should, by their traces, find but their skulking 'retreats, whích obliged them to make the best of their