This cruel monster [the Narragansett enemy] is now fallen into the hands of those [Mohegans] that will repay him sevenfold. In the first place, therefore, making a great circle, they placed him in the middle that all their eyes might at the same time, be pleased with utmost revenge upon him; they first cut one of his fingers round in the joint, at the trunk of his hand, with a sharp knife, and then broke it off, as men used to do with a slaughtered beast, before he is uncased; then they cut off another and another after, till they had dismembered one hand of all its digits, the blood, sometimes spurting out and streams a yard from his hand, which barbarous and unheard of cruelty, the English were not able to bear, it forcing tears from their eyes; yet did not the sufferer ever relent, or shew any signs of anguish; for, being asked by his tormentor how he liked this war, he replied, he liked it very well, and found it as sweet as the Englishmen did their sugar. In this frame, he continued, till his executioners had dealt with his toes of his feet as they had done with his fingers of his hands; all the time making him dance around the circle, and sing till they had wearied both himself and them. At last they broke the bones of his legs after which he was forced to sit down, which by some tis said he silently did, till they had knocked out his brains.
