194 ^/'^ Hovte of the Wolverene and Beaver. 



the wind became more favourable. Exhausted 

 by fatigue and watching, they fell into a sound 

 sleep, and in that state were surprised by the 

 savages. Better had it been for those unfortunate 

 men had they remained with Lewis, and shared his 

 heroic death ; as it was, they perished in a more 

 lingering and protracted manner, being sacrificed 

 by the natives to the manes of their friends with all 

 the lingering tortures of savage cruelty. Some 

 time after their death, the interpreter, who had 

 remained a kind of prisoner at large, effected his 

 escape, and brought the tragical tidings to Astoria." 

 So says Washington Irving, but Mr. Alexander 

 Ross, who was an Astorian, and one of the 

 passengers in the Tonquin, writes: "Thus ended the 

 sad story of Kasiascall (Lamazu), a story which we 

 at the time believed to be perfectly true ; but not 

 many days after, some Indians belonging to the 

 same quarter reached Astoria also, and gave a 

 somewhat different version of the affair, particularly 

 as regarded Kasiascall himself; and what convinced 

 us that he had acted a treacherous part, was the 

 fact, that on hearing that the other Indians were 

 coming, he immediately absconded, and we saw 

 him no more. These Indians confirmed Kasiascall's 

 story in every respect as regarded the destruction 

 cf the ill fated Tonquin; but persisted in assuring 



