128 



great struggling and endeavour, he laid hold 

 of the door, but was pulled back and drawn 

 away by them. Finding they intended no 

 mercy, but putting him to death, he at- 

 tempted several times to snatch or lay hold 

 of some of their tomahawks ; but, being 

 weak, could not effect it. We saw him 

 borne off, and they were a long time beat- 

 ing, wounding, pursuing, and killing him. 



" That same evening I saw the dead 

 body of this man close by the council-house. 

 It was mangled cruelly, and the blood 

 mingled with the powder was rendered 

 black. The same evening I saw him, after 

 he had been cut into pieces, and his limbs 

 and his head, about two hundred yards on 

 the outside of the town, put on poles. That 

 evening also I saw the bodies of three 

 others, in the same black and mangled con- 

 dition : these, I was told, had been put to 

 death the same day, and just before we had 

 reached the town. Their bodies, as they 

 lay, were black, bloody, and burnt with 

 powder : two of these were Harrison and 



