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to sit down there was a number of squaws 

 and boys, who fell on the five prisoners and 

 tomahawked them. There was a certain 

 John M'Kinley amongst the prisoners, 

 formerly an officer in the 13th Virginia 

 regiment, whose head an old squaw cut off*, 

 and the Indians kicked it about upon the 

 ground. The young Indian fellows came 

 often where the Colonel and I were, and 

 dashed the scalps in our faces. We were 

 then conducted along toward the place 

 where the Colonel was afterwards executed : 

 when we came within about half a mile of 

 it, Simeon Girty met us, with several In- 

 dians on horseback. He spoke to the Colo- 

 nel; but, as I was about one hundred and 

 fifty yards behind, could not hear what 

 passed between them. 



" Almost every Indian we met struck 

 us, either with sticks or their fists. Girty 

 waited till I was brought up, and asked, 

 * Was that the Doctor?' I told him, c Yes;' 

 and went toward him reaching out my 

 hand: but he bid me * Be gone!' and called 



