bodies were most frightful to behold. woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, as if she were just dians.

burnt

delivered, of which I

Other women lay The houses were converted into

was a living witness.

burnt also in their houses.

We

c are made heaps of stones, so that I might say with Micah, ' in his forth wail desolate ;' Mid with Jeremiah, piteous may go our in in all souls have slain The Indians distress.' twenty-four

place and taken forty-five prisoners."

The official record conveys in simple language a picture

Killed " in to the imagination but little office. " " on the farm," " burnt in his house," front of his house,"

which leaves

with her lost fruit,"

" burnt in her

house," are but repeated in

forms of detail until the blackened villages are again presented in the presence of the pitiless massacre, and the wails of the dying- and the cries of the captives fade away It was a terrible

The fate of the redoubt was not known. of the loth, ten soldiers were ascertain

its

in the wilderness.

massacre ; but was it not terribly provoked ?

condition.

They

On the morning

commanded to

ride down

and

returned with the statement

that the Indians had not been seen there ; that fugitives from the

new village had reached there, but the soldiers had not dared to venture to the assistance of the settlers.

On the 1 6th, a troop of

soldiers was sent to the redoubt to bring up ammunition and to