IQO TJie Home of the Wolverene and Beaver. 



armourer, whose narrow escape from drowning oi\ 

 the bar was told by Pierre Lefranc — but the re- 

 maining four managed to reach the cabin, in which 

 they found Mr. Lewis, still alive, and endeavouring 

 to stanch the blood flowing from the mortal wound 

 between his shoulders. Dragging all the cabin 

 furniture to the door, the four men soon made a 

 rough barricade, and having possessed themselves 

 of the muskets and ammunition, they broke open 

 the companion hatch, and through the holes, opened 

 a fire on the exulting savages, now engaged in the 

 congenial occupation of plundering the stores, that 

 soon cleared the deck and forced the miscreants to 

 take shelter in their canoes. The interpreter leaped 

 overboard whilst the carnage was at its height, and 

 was picked up by the women in the canoes, into 

 which the survivors, the moment the savages shoved 

 off, discharged the cannon with which the Tonquin 

 w^as armed, and committed great destruction. No 

 Indians ventured off to the ship that day nor 

 during the succeeding night. Lamazu's narrative 

 as an eye-witness ends here, and I therefore quote 

 the remainder of this tragical history from Mr. 

 Washington Irving, who had access to all Mr. Astor s 

 papers. 



"When the day dawned the Tonguin still lay 

 at anchor in the bay, her sails all loose and flapping^ 



