Rachel Dyer a North American Story Author:John Neal Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. It is not a little remarkable that within a few days after the death of Sarah Good, a part of her pretended prophecy, that which was directed by he... more »r to the man who called her a witch at the place of death, was verified upon him, letter by letter, as it were. He was way-laid by a party of the Mohawks, and carried off to answer to the tribe for having reported of them that they ate the flesh of their captives.—It would. appear that he had lived among them in his youth, and that he was perfectly acquainted with their habits and opinions and with their. mode of warfare ; that he had been well treated by their chief, who let him go free at a time when he might lawfully have been put to death, according to the usages of the tribe, and that he could not possibly be mistaken about their eating the flesh of their prisoners. It would appear too, that he had been watched for, a long while before he was carried off; that his path had been beset hour after hour, and week after week, by three young warriors of the tribe, who might have shot him down, over .and over again if they would, en the step of his awn door, in the heart of a populous village, but they would not ; for they had sworn to trap their pray alive, and to bring it off with the hide and the .hair on ; that after they had carried him to the territory of the Mohawks, they put him on trial for the charge face to face, with a red, accuser ; that .they fqu'nd him guilty, and that, with a bitter laugh, they ordered liim to eat of the flesh of a dead man that lay bleeding on the earth before him ; that he looked up and saw the old chief who had been his father when he belonged to the tribe, and that hoping to appease the haughty savage, he took some of the detestable food into his mouth, and that instantly—instantly—bef...« less