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u As he was painting me, he told me I 

 should go to the Shawanese towns and see 

 my friends. When the Colonel arrived, he 

 painted him black also ; told him he was 

 glad to see him, and that he would have 

 him shaved when he came to see his friends 

 at the Wvandot town. When we marched, 

 the Colonel and I were kept back, between 

 Pipe and Wyngenim, the two Delaware 

 chiefs ; the other nine prisoners were sent 

 forward with another party of Indians. 

 As we went along, we saw four of the pri- 

 soners lying by the path tomahawked and 

 scalped ; some of them were at the distance 

 of half a mile from each other. When we 

 arrived within half a mile of the place 

 where the Colonel was executed, we over- 

 took the five prisoners that remained alive : 

 the Indians had caused them to sit down on 

 the ground, as they did ; also the Colonel 

 and me at some distance from them : I was 

 there given in charge to an Indian fellow, 

 to be taken to the Shawanese towns. 

 4C In the place where we were now made 



