1/73- two very flout m en, who never offered to move till they
December.^ poun(j them felves forfaken by their com panions; and then
Saturday is, ^ g y m arched aw ay w ith great com pofure and deliberation ;
their pride not fuffering them to fun . One of them , how ever,
got a fall, and either lay there, or craw led off on all
fours. T he other got clear, w ithout any apparent hu rt. I
then landed w ith the m arines, and Mr. Fannin flayed to
g u ard the boat.
“ On the beach were two bundles of cellery, w hich had
been gathered for loading the cutter. A broken oar was
ftuck u p rig h t in the ground, to w hich the natives had tied
their canoes ; a pro of th at the' attack had been m ade here.
I then fearched all along at the back o f the beach, to fee if
th e cutter was there. We found no boat, b u t inftead pf her,
fuch a fhocking fcene o f carnage and barbarity as can never
be m entioned or thoug ht o f bu t w ith horror ; for the heads,
hearts, and lungs o f feveral o f pu r people w ere feen lying
on the beach, and, at a little diftance, the dogs gnaw ing their
intrails. .
“ Whilft we rem ained almoft ftupified on the fpot.Mr.Fannin
called to us that he heard the fayages g ath erin g together in the
woods S o n w hich I returned to the boat, and hau lin g along-
fide the canoes, we dem olilhed three o f them . Whilft this
. was tranfadfing, the fire on the top of the h ill difappeared;
and w e could hear the Indians in the woods at h ig h words ;
I fuppofe quarrelling w hether or no they fhould attack us, and
try to fave their canoes. It now grew dark, I therefore juft
ftepped out, and looked once m ore behind the beach to fee
i f the cutter had been hauled u p in the b u fh e s; bu t feeing
nothing of her, returned and p u t off. O ur whole, force
w ould have been barely fufficient to have gone u p the h ill;
and to have ventured w ith h a lf (for h a lf m ull have been left
to gu ard the boat) w ould have been fool-hardinefs.
As
AND ROUND THE WORLD.
“ As we opened the upper part of the found, we Taw a very
large fire about three or fou r m iles h igher up, w hich form ed
a complete oval, reaching from th e top of a hill dow n almoft
to the water-fide, the m iddle fpace - being inclofed all round
by the fire, -like a hedge. I confulted w ith Mr. Fannin, and
w e were both of opinion that we; could expect to-reap no
other advantage than the poor fatisfadtion of killing fome
m ore of the favages. At leaving Grafs Cove, we had fired a
general volley towards w here we heard the Indians talking ;
but, by going in and out of the boat, the arm s had got wet,
and four pieces miffed fire. W hat was ftill worfe, it began
to ra in ; our am m un itio n was m ore than h a lf expended; and
we left fix large canoes behind us in one place. W ith fo
m any difadvantages, I did not thin k it w orth w hile to proceed,
w here nothing could be hoped for bu t revenge.
“ Com ing betw een two round iflands, fituated to the fouth-
w ard of Eaft Bay, we im agined we heard fomebody calling;
we lay on our oars, and liftened, but heard no m ore of i t ; we
Jiallooed feveral tim es, b u t to little purpofe ; the poor fouls
were far enough out of h e a rin g ; and indeed, 1 thin k it fome
com fort to reflect, that in all probability every m an of them
m uft have been killed on the fpot.”
Thus far Mr. B urney’s re p o rt; and, to complete the account
o f this tragical trarifadfion, it m ay not be unneceffary
to m ention that the people in the cutter w ere Mr. R ow e;
Mr. Woodhoufe ; Francis M urphy, quarter-m after; W illiam
Facey,' T hom as H ill, Michael Bell, . and Edw ard Jones,
forecaftle-m en. John Cavenaugh, and T hom as Milton, b elonging
to the after-g u ard ; and Jam es Sevilley, the captain’s
m an, being ten in all. Mail of thefe were of our very
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