entering the village he killed &
scalped a woman & two children &
immediately made his Retreat, tra
velling into the wilderness night
& day with the greatest expedition
he was capable of till almost fam
ishd -after extreme hardships en
durd he at length reached home &
says he then left satisfied, - he
still relates the circumstance with
great apparent satisfaction - says he
thinks he did right & that if he had
not obtaind revenge he never should
have felt easy- However despa
rately cruel this act may appear to
the Christian, and in a rational view
however unjust that the innocent
should be made to suffer for the Guilty,
yet great allowance is to be made
for the unfetterd Indian who by Edu
cation is taught to believe that the
Revenge for an aggression is a Du
ty -that the family or the tribe, are
implicated with the individual aggres
sor and that if he falls in obtaining
his desire, he will undoubtedly Die happy-