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PJ.760.079
18 Dec 1760:11, 12 (941)
November 29. Fort Prince George, Oct. 27, 1760 . . . .
Cherokee country . . .
who can tie a man to a stake, stick his body full of
lightwood splinters, light them and oblige his wife and
children not only to be present, but to dance with and join
them in their diabolical rejoicings; who after a while, will
untie the prisoner, cut off one hand or arm, and make him
dance with them; then another; and then a foot or leg; and
so on, 'till they are obliged to move him above in the dance
without hands or arms, legs or feet, till he expires in the
most exquisite agony of torture, when they throw the remains
of their carcases either into a fire or to their dogs: This
is one way that they dispatch their prisoners; but they have
other . . .
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