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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 62 (part 2)

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In a brief space of time there were counted one hun dred and eighty dead outside the houses. Presently none durst come forth, keeping within the houses, discharging arrows through the holes. The general (Montagne) remarked that nothing else was to be done, and resolved, with Sergeant Major Underbill, to set the huts on fire, whereupon the Indians tried every means to escape, not succeeding in which they returned back to the flames, preferring to perish by the fire than to die by

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