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casions, the servant was left alone ; and was 

 much frightened by the screeching of the 

 owls, supposing the Indians were coming 

 to kill him in the night ; it being a prac- 

 tice with those savages to come into the 

 house and lie by the fire, nor dare the inha- 

 bitants forbid them. After some time, this 

 man came with his master to a place near 

 Philadelphia, where his master had lived ; 

 for his family had cleared a piece of 

 ground, and built a house there : but 

 Patrick declined going any more into that 

 country, to drink water and live on Indian 

 corn. 



I take up my pen, therefore, to write the 

 following pages, free from all unfounded 

 prejudices against America; but at the 



