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his heart-rending groans and piteous wailing. One night after he had thus been ⟨tormented⟩ whilst he and I were sitting together, ⟨condoling⟩ eaeh other at the misfortunes and miseries ⟨he⟩ daily suffered, twenty sealps and three ⟨prisoners⟩ were brought in by another party of ⟨Indians.⟩ They had unhappily fallen in their hands ⟨at⟩ Cannojigge, a small town near the river Susquahana, chiefly inhabited by the Irish. ⟨The⟩ prisoners gave us some shoeking aeeounts of murders and devastations committed in their ⟨party.⟩ The various and complieated aetions of these barbarians would entirely fill a large volume; ⟨but⟩ what I have already written, with a few ⟨other⟩ instanees whieh I shall select from the information, will enable the reader to guess at the ⟨horrible⟩ 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 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 John Lewis, with his ⟨wife⟩ and three small ehildren, fell sacrifices to ⟨their⟩ eruelty, and were miserably sealped and ⟨murdered⟩, his house, barn, and every thing he ⟨possessed⟩ being burnt and destroyed. On the ⟨28th⟩
