Both got in safely, though they separated after the old Dutch woman, in the extremity of hunger, had tried to kill her companion that she might eat her.

When Cornstalk's party perpetrated the massacre of the Clendennins during Pontiac's war (see Stewart's Narrative), Mrs.
Clendennin likewise left her baby to its death, and made her escape; her husband had previously been killed and his bloody scalp tied across her jaws as a gag.] The man who daily imperilled his own life, would, if water was needed in the fort, send his wife and daughter to draw it from the spring round which he knew Indians lurked, trusting that the appearance of the women would make the savages think themselves undiscovered, and that they would therefore defer their attack.
[Footnote: As at the siege of Bryan's Station.] Such people were not likely to spare their red-skinned foes.

Many of their friends, who had never hurt the savages in any way, had perished the victims of wanton aggression.

They themselves had seen innumerable instances of Indian treachery.

They had often known the chiefs of a tribe to profess warm friendship at the very moment that their young men were stealing and murdering.