On the 28th, Jacob Miller, with his 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 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
the savages, and proceed 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, ate 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 terror to a human soul, and cause
in every breast the utmost detestation, not only against the authors of
such tragic scenes, but against those who, through perfidy, inattention,
or pusillanimous and erroneous principles, suffered these savages at
first, unrepelled, or even unmolested, to commit such outrages and
incredible depredations and murders; for no torments, no barbarities
that can be exercised on the human sacrifices they get into their power,
are left untried or omitted.
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