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having scalped it. My master returned with his share of the booty from 
the boat, which he laid upon my back, and marching through the village 
came to the hut where he lived. We had not been long there when a 
great many Indians came in, and got drunk upon spirit which they had 
plundered, and as I knew in their cups they often killed one another, I 
again considered myself in as much danger as ever. One of them dressed 
in Captain Robson’s clothes came in very drunk, and seeing me lie in 
the corner with my hands tied, set up a shout, calling me an English 
dog, and madea stroke at me with his tomahawk, which must have killed 
me, had not another Indian more sober, and whom I afterwards found 
to be the best of them, seized his arm and prevented him, and then 
turned him out of the hut. My master’s wife seeing the danger to which 
I was exposed, and knowing that he or some other Indian might return, 
made me lie down behind her, and covered me over with skins and furs ; 
soon after the same Indian did return and demanded me of my master, 
saying that “No English dog should be left alive,” upon which he was 
turned out a second time and well kicked. Not long after this a party 
of them came and determined to have me, and my master was obliged 
in order to save me, to tell them that I was carried to another hut, which 
satisfied them. The whole night they kept drinking what liquor we had 
brought with us,and making a most hideous yelling, dancing and singing, 
while they were feeding on poor Captain Robson’s body. ‘This shocking 
piece of barbarity was practised only by some of the Indian tribes to the 
northward. The Six Nations, who used their prisoners when alive much 
worse than those whose captives we were, yet never eat human flesh. 
They of course do not devour it for want of food, but as a religious 
ceremony, or rather from a superstitious idea that it makes them 
prosperous in war. They teach their children to be fond of it even from 
infancy. The next day my master’s son brought some pieces of the 
body into the hut, and roasted them upon a stick, and endeavoured at 
the same time to prevail on me to eat it, after assuring me that English- 
man’s blood was very good to eat. My master desired of me to taste it, 
telling me that I was never going back to the English, so that I ought 
to conform to the manner of the Indians. I told him that I would obey 
him in every thing he ordered me, and even that if he insisted upon it ; 
but that it was very disagreeable for me, and that was the only command 
I would feel any hesitation in performing, and begged that he would not 
absolutely insist upon it. Thus by assuming readiness to acquiesce, I 
avoided eating the remains of my friend, and I believe by showing a 
desire to please him I rather gained upon his affections. My hands were 
still bound behind my back, this day being the second of my captivity, 
Never having seen or heard any thing of the poor soldiers, I concluded 
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