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hand carefully to collect, were taken as good booty and 

 publicly sold at Pittsburg. All this befel the villages 

 of Salem and Gnadenhiitten. At Schonbrunn there 

 were still some thirty Indians. But a boy who had 

 been scalped at Gnadenhiitten and left for dead in a 

 house there, contriving to escape in the night brought 

 news of what had happened, to Schonbrunn 10 miles 

 away the Indians there took flight and escaped the 

 bloodthirsty murderers, who came thither the next 

 morning to repeat the scene of the day before, but 

 could only burn the empty village. 



Unheard of as were these murderous proceedings,* 

 abominated by every individual right-thinking man, 

 the murderer who gave the orders was not called to 

 account officially, for he acted without any orders 

 except the promptings of his own bloodthirsty soul. 

 He boasted of his deeds and exhibited everywhere his 

 bloodstained hatchet. Eternal shame to the states. 

 But this was the maxim throughout the war, to wreak 

 vengeance on the innocent and allow no man justice. 

 Whole nations of Indians were aroused by this occur- 

 rence to a zealous prosecution of the war and they 

 redoubled their attacks in order to avenge the death 

 of their Moravian brethren. 



We left Bethlehem (the evening of the 9th of 

 August) and came 10 miles to Nazareth, through a 



* No longer so unheard of ! For a pendant to this story, 

 Vid. Hamb. Polit. Journal, 1787, p. 474 " The war with the 

 " Indians has been begun by the Americans in a rather Indian 

 " fashion. They fell upon the Indian chiefs who according to 

 " their custom had assembled in council. After this slaughter 

 " some 1900 of the Shawanese Indians swore blood-vengeance " 

 which will be thought extremely unreasonable in America ! 



