tian Indians. They then withdrew to some distance from the scene of slaughter"

The majority were nnmoved, and only disagreed method of putting their victims to death. burning them alive; others for tomalhawking and scalping them. The latter method was determincd on, and a messagc was sent to the Indians that, "as they they might prepare themselves in a Christian manner, for they as to the Some were for wcro Christian Indians, must all dic to-morrow,"

The rest of the narrative is best told in the words of the Moravian missionaries: "It may be casily conceived how great their terror was at hearing a sentence so unexpected. How ever, they soon recollected themselves, and patiently suffered the murderers to lead them into two houses, in one of which the brethren were confincd and in the other the sisters and ehildren. * Finding that all entrcatics to save their lives werc to no purpose, and that some, more blood-thirsty than others, were anxious to ging a short delay, that they might prepare themselves for death, which request was for whatever offence they had given, sioned to each other, they knelt down, offering fervent prayers to God their Saviour and kissing of tears, fully resigned to his will, they sung praises unto him, in the joyful hope that they would soon be relieved fron all pains and join their Redeemer in everlasting bliss. The murderers, impatient to make a to them while they were begin pon them, they united in beg- granted them. Then asking pardon or gricf they had occa one another. Under a flood beginning, singing, and, inquiring whether they were answered in the affirma again came ready for dying, they were now tive, adding that they had commendod their immortal souls to God, who had given them the asenrance in their hearts that he would rcccive their souls. One of the party, now taking up a cooper's mallet which lay this will answer for the purpose,' began with Abraban, and in the house, saying, 'How exactly