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bear his fufferings with patience, thro' the hopes of 

 the happinefs awaiting them in heaven, and he had 

 the fatisfa&ion to fee him expire like a brave man 

 and a chriftian. 



Then all thofe who had put his companion to 

 death fell upon him with fuch rage as if they would 

 tear him to pieces. He appeared not at all moved 

 at it, and they were now at a lofs to find any part 

 of his body that was fenfible to pain when one of 

 the executioners, after making an incifion in the 

 lkin quite round his head, tore it entirely off by 

 mere force and violence. The pain made him fall 

 into a fwoon, when his tormentors believing him 

 dead, left him. Upon his recovery a moment after, 

 and feeing nothing near him but the dead body of 

 his friend, he took up a firebrand with both hands, 

 fcorched and flead as they were, defying his execu- 

 tioners to come near him. This uncommon refolu- 

 tion terrified them, they made hideous fhouts, ran 

 to arms, fome laying hold of burning coals, and 

 and others feizing red hot irons, and all at once 

 poured upon him he flood the brunt of their fury 

 with the courage of a man in defpair, and even 

 made them retire. The fire that furrounded him 

 ferved him for an entrenchment, which he com- 

 pleated with the ladders they had ufed to afcend the 

 fcaffold, and thus fortifying himfelf, and making a 

 fort of citadel of his funeral pile, which was now 

 become the theatre of his bravery, and armed with 

 the inflruments of his torture, he was for a confi- 

 derable time the terror of a whole canton, and not 

 one had the heart to approach him, tho' he was 

 more than half burnt to death, and the blood trick- 

 ied from all parts of his body. 



His 



