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The Pontiac Manuscript
Upon others they practised other cruelties, flaying them alive with gun-flints and stinging them with lance-cuts. They cut off the feet and hands of some, and let them die with suffering while bathing in their blood. Others they tied to stakes and made the children '-. burn them alive with slow fires. There was no kind of cruelty which barbarity has invented that these poor unhappy fellows did not suffer, and at the sight of this spectacle one would have said that all the furies had been "unchained against these poor people.
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