There lay the burnt and slauglitered bodies, together with those Avounded by bullets and axes. The last agonies and the moans and lamentations of many were di'eadful to hear. I have been in their midst, and have gone into the houses, and along the roads, to speak a word in season, and that not without danger of being shot by the Indians ; but I went on my mission, and considered not my life mine own. I may say with Jeremiah, " I am he who hath seen misery in the day of tli^ wrath of the Lord."

Consider well, worthy colleagues, how manifold is the suffering and lamentation amongst us, of our wounded who fled for refuge to my house, and of otliers who yielded up the ghost near me.

I encouraged our people as much as possible, out of God's word, and particularly in prayer to God who hath rescued us. We must behold God's flock taken away into captivity by the Heathen, and Death come in unexpectedly by the windows, and cut off the children from the highways, and the young men from the street ; so that I might exclaim-- 0! my Bowels -- my Bowels! I am pained at my very heart ! -- and with Jeremiah, 0 that mine head were water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might "weep for the slain of my people ; for the dead lay as sheaves behind the mow'er.

The burnt bodies were most frightful to behold. A woman lay burnt, with her child at her side, as if she were just delivered, of which I was a living witness. Otlier w^omen lay burnt also in their houses ; and one corpse with her fruit still in her womb, most cruelly murdered in their dwelling with her husband and another child.