Who were the savages -- the Indians, or the English -- "I judged him to be executed, the acknowledgement of the deed being enforced from him by torture having hung by the thumbs with weights at his feet a quarter of an hour before he would confess the same." Executing people certainly cut down on the number who needed to be fed. About "savages" - Indians who were fighting to keep there land, to spite the claim that the land was not occupied!
Who were the savages -- the Indians, or the English -- "I judged him to be executed, the acknowledgement of the deed being enforced from him by torture having hung by the thumbs with weights at his feet a quarter of an hour before he would confess the same." Executing people certainly cut down on the number who needed to be fed. About "savages" - Indians who were fighting to keep there land, to spite the claim that the land was not occupied!