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not heard: he therefore undressed, 
‘and threw himself into the sea, with 
his watch in his mouth. 
Meantime the ship fired upon the 
Indians, and sent out the long-boat, 
which: steered first towards the camp, 
but, perceiving M. Roquefeuil, turned 
aside, and reached him not far from 
. Shore. It was soon received by a very 
brisk fire from the Lndians, which it 
returned. “J made an unsuccessful 
attempt to get into the boat, in which 
I perceived several persons that were 
wounded; unwilling to detain the 
boat under the fire of the Indians, who 
were very numerous, and seeing no 
Kodiak to assist on that side, I order- 
ed it to stand off, without losing time 
to take me up. I kept close to it as it 
retired, firing towards the camp, and 
got in when it could stop without 
danger. Of the seven men on-board, 
four were wounded, two of them only 
slightly. The result of this unfortu- 
nate affair was, that of the forty-seven 
Kodiaks who were in the camp at the 
moment of the atlack, twenty were 
killed, twenty-five escaped by swim- 
ming, or were saved by our boats, and 
iwo were missing, supposed to be 
drowned. Of the twenty-five who 
escaped the massacre, twelve were 
wounded, most of them very severely. 
The Indians) it seems, had approached 
under the cover of a wood, and sud- 
denly fell upon’ the Kodiaks, who 
were lulled in the most perfect’secu- 
rity: they were all killed by musket- 
shot, and most of them had several 
wounds.” 
It is indispensable to employ the 
greatest prudence in the communica- 
tions with the natives of the north- 
west coast. Vancouver, and all the 
navigators who first visited them, ex- 
perienced their hostile and perfidious 
dispositions, which have been only 
encreased by the means of destruction 
which the possession of fire-arms has 
put into’ their power. Thongh their 
confidence is augmented in the same 
proportion, they never attack but by 
surprise. Ten or twelve American 
vessels have been attacked by them 
in this manner at different times ; most 
of them suffered considerable loss, and 
two were seized and carried off about 
twelve years ago. 
Capt. Told, of the American ship 
Tonquin, after having re-victualled 
the establishment on the Columbia, 
where he had losta boat and several 
men by his obstinacy and rashness, 
A new Voyage round the World, by Mvde Rogucfeuil, [Oct. 15 
was killed. by the Indians, subjects of 
Maconina, at an anchoring-place: un- 
der Woody Point. ‘The second catas- 
trophe, at Clayoquot, was also caused 
by imprudenée. Wicananich had 
gained the confidence of the captain: 
the latter being very eager to take 
advantage of a breeze to leave the port, 
where he had been detained by con- 
trary winds, the chief offered to send 
some of his people on-board to assist 
him; 'the captain having been so in- 
cautious as to receive these perfidious 
auxiliaries, they suddenly fell upon the 
crew, and killed or wounded the cap- 
tain and most who were on deck. For- 
tunately, the chief mate aud some of 
the crew had time to take refuge in 
their quarters, where their sick com- 
rades were, and escaped the first fury 
of the attack, as well as those who 
were employed in loosening the sails ; 
these latter made such good use of the 
balls that were kept in the round top, 
that they enabled their comrades to 
sally from their retreat, and act offen- 
sively. ‘hese brave men, after extra- 
ordinary efforts, repulsed their perfi- 
dious enemies; and, having procured 
arms, entirely drove them from the 
vessel. The ship having run aground 
during the wiequal contest, the re- 
mainder of the brave crew abandoned 
it in the night, and arrived safely in 
the long-boat at Columbia. 
Some visits, which M. Roquefeuil 
made to the islands of the Great 
Ocean, have procured some new infor- 
mation, of which the following remark 
on the Marquesas Islands is an in- 
stance. The isle of Qevahoa, the 
most fertile of this Archipelago, where 
M. Roquefeuil procured 4000 lbs. of 
sandal-wood, possesses a kind of 
bards, who go to the neighbouring 
islands to sing their poems to very 
monotonous airs, which have much 
resemblance to church-music. ‘They 
accompany their voice either by clap- 
ping their hands, and strikivg on dif- 
ferent parts of their body, or with 
large drums, which appear to be their 
only instruments. ‘These concerts 
procure them numerous presents. For 
these fétes there is in every valley a 
rectangular space, from a hundred to 
a hundred and thirty yards long, and 
from twenty-five to thirty broad, sur- 
rounded by a parapet, breast high, fen 
feet thick; often bordered witli a row 
of trees, and surrounded ‘by avenues, 
which afford pleasant walks. 
The neeessity of taking in wood, 
; water 
