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 children, fell sacrifices to their cruelty, and were miserably scalped and murdered; his house, barn, and every thing he possessed, being burnt and destroyed.

On the 28th, Jacob Miller, with his wife and six of his family, together with every thing 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 unhappy 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 these savages, and proceed to their own most tragical end.

One of the substantial traders belonging to the Province, having business that called him up the country, fell into the bands of these diabolical wretches, who not only scalped him, but immediately roasted him before he was dead; then like cannibals for want of other food, ate his whole body, and of his head made what they call an Indian pudding.

The three prisoners that were brought with these additional forces, constantly repining at their lot, and almost dead with their excessive hard treatment, contrived at last to make their escape; but being far from their own settlements, and not knowing the country, were soon after met by some others of the tribes or nations at war with us, and brought