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School, which had been raised, with nearly two 

 hundred bushels of potatoes, from the ground 

 that we had cultivated near it ; and having 

 purchased two cows for the establishment, our 

 minds were relieved from anxiety as to provisions 

 for the children during the winter, as well as 

 from the quantity of grain that might be 

 collected, till another harvest. Our fears were 

 kept alive however, as to the safety of the 

 Settlement, by being informed of another horrid 

 massacre of four hunters, a woman, and a little 

 girl, on the plains near Pembina, by the Sioux 

 Indians. Their bodies were dreadfully mangled, 

 and the death of the little girl was attended with 

 atrocious barbarity. When the Indians first ap- 

 proached and made their attack on the party, she 

 concealed herself under one of the carts ; but 

 hearing the screams of her friends as the savages 

 were butchering them, she ran from the place 

 of her concealment, and was shot through with 

 an arrow as she was running to escape. The 

 frequent massacre of the hunters by the Sioux 

 Indians, and the constant alarm excited at the 

 Settlement, by reports that they would come 

 down with the savage intention of scalping us 

 call for some military protection. A small 

 party stationed at the Colony, would not only 

 be the means of enforcing any civil process in 



