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ings, when I saw a number of the na¬ 
tives approaching the hut, and in the 
midst, Cyrus M. Hussey, conducted 
with great apparent kindness. 
Notwithstanding we had both been 
preserved much after the same manner, 
we could not divest ourselves of the ap¬ 
prehension, that we perhaps had been 
preserved, for a short time, to suffer 
some lingering death. 
Our interview was only long enough 
to satisfy each other that we alone sur¬ 
vived the massacre, when we were sep¬ 
arated ; Hussey being taken away, and 
it seemed quite uncertain, even if our 
lives were spared, whether we ever saw 
each other again. 
