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& seeing no chance of escaping they returned & instantly the tomahawk cleft their skulls. --The wretches mutilated their bodies & escaped with the scalps. A boy, the only male with them, was closely pursued by them but escaped by his speed & brought the news to the father who immediately set out on horseback with a fellow Sioux & found the bodies, which they collected together, threw a blanket over them & left them to the next comers, who were hourly? expected, to bury them. He presented a picture of a downstricken man as unclear: flat? on the ground, his head resting between his hands & his face half con-