Il6 OFF CAPE COD. 



one of the British men-of-war that had cov- 

 ered the red-coats while crossing to Bunker 

 Hill, and afterwards set fire to Charlestown, 

 was wrecked at the Peaked Hills, to the 

 great joy of the people of the Cape, to 

 whom this vessel had long been a terror. 

 There were more than four hundred souls 

 on board, many of whom were swallowed 

 up by the sea, and their bodies buried in 

 Deadmen's Hollow, near by. The sur- 

 vivors, among them Captain Aubrey, the 

 commander of the vessel, were marched 

 to Boston as prisoners-of-war by the Barn- 

 stable militia. The vessel was thrown up 

 high on the beach, and after a few years 

 was wholly buried in the sand. Within 

 two or three years the constantly shifting 

 sands, after more than a hundred years, 

 again revealed to view the live-oak timbers 

 of the old war-ship. Many are the relics 

 in Provincetown obtained by the towns- 

 people during the temporary exhumation. 

 At the present time the vessel is again 

 imbedded in sand to the depth of nearly 

 thirty feet. This is only one of the 



