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unrepelled, or even unmolested, to eommit such outrages and incredible depradations and murders; for no torments, no barbarities that can be exereised on the human saerifiees they get into their power, are left untried or omitted.
The three prisoners that were brought with these additional forces, constantly repining at their lot, and almost dead with their exeesive 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 back to their diabolical masters, who greatly rejoiced at having them again in their infernal power. The poor ereatures, almost famished for want of sustenance, having had none during the time of their elopement, were no sooner in the clutches of the barbarians, than two of them were tied to a tree, and a great fire made round them, where they remained till they were terribly seorehed and burnt, when one of the villians, with his scalping knife, ripe open their bellies, took out their entrails, and burnt them before their eyes, whilst the others were cutting, piereing, and tearing the flesh from their breasts, hands, arms, and legs, with red-hot irons, till they were dead. The third unhappy vietim was reserved a few hours longer, to be, if possible, sacrificed in a more
