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hill the place was thronged like a fair. As we came 

 in, I ordered a musquetoon to be tired at one of the 

 canoes, suspecting they might be full of men lying 

 down in the bottom ; for they were all afloat, but 

 nobody was seen in them. The savages on the little 

 hill still kept hallooing and making signs for us to 

 land. However, as soon as we got close in, we all 

 fired. The first volley did not seem to affect them 

 much ; but on the second, they began to scramble 

 away as fast as they could, some of them howling. 

 We continued firing as long as we could see the 

 glimpse of any of them through the bushes. Amongst 

 the Indians were two very stout men, who never of- 

 fered to move till they found themselves forsaken by 

 their companions ; and then they marched away with 

 great composure and deliberation ; their pride not 

 suffering them to run. One of them however, got a 

 fall, and either lay there or crawled off on all fours. 

 The other got clear without any apparent hurt. I 

 then landed with the marines, and Mr. Fannin 

 stayed to guard the boat. 



" On the beach were two bundles of celery, which 

 had been gathered for loading the cutter. A broken 

 oar was stuck upright in the ground, to which the na- 

 tives had tied their canoes ; a proof that the attack had 

 been made here. I then searched all along at the 

 back of the beach, to see if the cutter was there. We 

 found no boat, but instead of her, such a shocking 

 scene of carnage and barbarity as can never be men- 

 tioned or thought of but with horror ; for the heads, 

 hearts, and lungs of several of our people were seen 

 lying on the beach, and, at a little distance, the dogs 

 gnawing their entrails. 



" Whilst we remained almost stupified on the spot, 

 Mr. Fannin called to us that he heard the savages 

 gathering together in the woods ; en which I returned 

 to the boat, and hauling alongside the canoes, we demo- 

 lished three of them. Whilst this was transacting, the 

 fire on the top of the hill disappeared ; and we could 



