A Narrative of the Capture of Certain Americans At Westmoreland By Savages ..
The book A Narrative of the Capture of Certain Americans At Westmoreland By Savages .. was written by author Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849 Here you can read free online of A Narrative of the Capture of Certain Americans At Westmoreland By Savages .. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Narrative of the Capture of Certain Americans At Westmoreland By Savages .. a good or bad book?
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they mud inevitably a -id miserably freeze and ftarve, fhort of reaching any relief which pro ed in fa£t to be their awful fate, their giulty ronfcie,* cei lufficiently remonftratin^ againft turning about afid fubni.it- ting to the mercy of their vi£ors. They piob-bly fei their faces toward Niagara, 230 miles diftanr. without arms, or a fcrap of cloathing or food, and hve never beet) heard of iince, which occafic ed great mournings at Niagara, as fome prifoners inform. It is probable that the o...peration of fa- mine and froft, landed thofe wrexhes, one aftei another, ori a bed of fnow, where they left the world, literallv as na- ed as they cine into it. Their horrid fa?e had ii fallen to the ihare even of wild beafts, oujht to have move 1 companion iri fc?ery huaaaH« bieaft ; but when we. confider how richly & B tbo£s ( io ) thofe irionfters mfrrited (Heir fate by the moft improVokea* r;eediefi,and voluntary hoftilrties, profecuted With the mt'il wanton ftretches of inhumanity and guilt, it moderates the pang of fympathy, and conftrains the minds of the compsf- fionate, in fome rrjeafnre, to acqtrefce in the providential exercifeof thofe punitrimenti, wlych humane nature couLi riot bare to infii& ort the moft accummuhted guiir.
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