The ignorant and violently prejudiced backwoodsmen naturally believed all manner of evil of their British foes; but it is singular that writers who ought to be well informed should even now continue to accept all their wild assertions as unquestioned facts.

The conduct of the British was very bad; but it is silly to describe it in the terms often used.

The year after their escape Slover dictated, and Knight wrote, narratives of their adventures, which were together published in book form at Philadelphia in 1783.

They are very interesting.] Slover's Escape.
At last he was condemned to be burned, and was actually tied to the stake.

But a heavy shower came on, so wetting the wood that it was determined to reprieve him till the morrow.