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desired to know my opinion of the matter; 

 but being at that time in great anguish and 

 distress for the torments the Colonel was 

 suffering before my eyes, as well as the 

 expectation of undergoing the same fate in 

 two days, I made little or no answer. 

 He expressed a great deal of ill-will for 

 Colonel Gibson, and said he was one of his 

 greatest enemies, and more to the same 

 purpose; to all which I paid very little 

 attention. 



" Colonel Crawford, at this period of his 

 sufferings, besought the Almighty to have 

 mercy on his soul, spoke very low, and 

 bore his torments with the most manly 

 fortitude. He continued in all the extre- 

 mities of pain for an hour and three quar- 

 ters, or two hours longer, as near as I can 

 judge ; when at last, being almost spent, he 

 lay down on his belly : they then scalped 

 him, and repeatedly threw the scalp in my 

 face, telling me c That was my great Cap- 

 4 tain !' An old squaw (whose appearance 

 every way answered the ideas people en- 



