s perished ninety-six of the Moravian Indians. Of these, sixty-two
were grown persons, one-third of whom were women; the remaining
thirty-four were children.[4] Two youth alone, made their escape. One
of them had been knocked down and scalped, but was not killed. He had
the presence of mind to lie still among the dead, until nightfall,
when he crept silently forth and escaped. The other, in the confusion
of the shocking scene, slipped through a trap door into the cellar,
and passing out at a small window, got off unnoticed and uninjured.

In the whole of this transaction the Moravians were passive and
unresisting. They confided in the assurances of protection given them
by the whites, and until pent up in the houses, continued cheerful and
happy. If when convinced of the murderous intent of their visitors,
they had been disposed to violence and opposition, it would have
availed them nothing. They had surrendered their arms (being requested
to do so, as a guarantee for the security of the whites,) and were no
longer capable of offering any effectual or available resistance, and
while the dreadful work of death was doing, "they were as lambs led to
the slaughter; & as sheep before the shearers are dumb, so opened they
not their mouths." There was but a solitary exception to this
passiveness, and it was well nigh terminating in the escape of its
author, and in the death of some of the whites.

As two of the men were leading forth one of the supposed warriors to
death, a dispute arose between them, who should have the scalp of this
victim to their barbarity. He was progressing after them with a silent
dancing motion, and singing his death song. Seeing them occupied so
closely with each other, he became emboldened to try an escape.
Drawing a knife from its scabbard, he cut the cord which bound him;
and springing forward, aimed a thrust at one of his conductors. The
cutting of the rope had, however, drawn it so [238] tightly that he
who held it became sensible that it was wrought upon in some way; and
turning quickly round to ascertain the cause, scarcely avoided the
stab. The Indian then bounded from them, and as he fled towards the
woods, dexterously removed the cord from his wrists. Several shots
were discharged at him without effect, when the firing was stopped,
lest in the hurry and confusion of the pursuit, some of their own
party might suffer from it. A young man, mounting his horse, was soon
by the side of the Indian