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been the one chosen, not only that to have put me to death would have been in accordance with a war without mercy, much as they seemed to desire, but also that I was generally considered as a great criminal by the Iroquois and English.

One day, at noon, a chief from Onneida came for me and led me bound as I was to a council of the Iroquois nations assembled upon a hill near by. They placed me near the surgeon whom I found in the position of a prisoner of war as well as myself. The two other captives