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114 1759 "a deserted cabin to sleep there for the night. Early in the morning the whites were posted around the house, and so placed behind a fodder stack, and some small outhouses, as to be ready to shoot both at the top of the chimney, and the door; and they had begun to throw fire upon the roof the house. One of the Indians within observed to his comrades, that it was better for one to die than that all should; and that if they would follow his directions, he would save all of the company but himself. He ordered them to stand ready, and to issue through the door, as soon as he should have extracted the fire of the assailants, and then to go off as fast as they could. They agreed to obey his commands. He issued