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Some of the squaws took broad boards upon 

 which they would put a quantity of burn- 

 ing coals and hot embers, and throw on 

 him, so that in a short time he had nothing 

 but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon. 



" In the midst of these extreme tortures 

 he called to Simeon Girty, and begged of 

 him to shoot him : but Girty making no 

 answer, he called to him again. Girty then, 

 by way of derision, told the Colonel he 

 had no gun ; at the same time, turning 

 about to an Indian who was behind him, 

 laughed heartily, and by all his gestures 

 seemed delighted at the horrid scene. 



" Girty then came up to me, and bade 

 me prepare for death. He said, however, I 

 was not to die at that place, but to be burnt 

 at the Shawanese towns. He swore by 

 G — d! I need not expect to escape death, 

 but should suffer it in all its extremities. 



" He then observed that some prisoners had 

 given him to understand that if our people 

 had him they would not hurt him ; for his 

 part, he said, he did not believe it, but 



