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us that he was not on board at the time, and that 

 he was privy to the whole plot. They said, that 

 before that affair he had caused the death of four 

 white men, and that early in the morning of the 

 Tonquhis fatal day, he had induced the captain, 

 through some plausible artifice, to send a boat with 

 six men to shore, and that neither he nor the six 

 men were on board at the time of the destruction-* 

 That in the evening of the same day, Kasiascall 

 himself headed the party who went and brought 

 the six unfortunate men, after the ship was* 

 blown up, to the Indian camp, where they were 

 first tortured with savage cruelty, and then all 

 massacred in the most inhuman manner." 



Such was the fate of the Tonqidn, as accurately 

 as it can be ascertained, and there is no doubt that 

 the story is substantially true. I now piiss on to 

 the settlement at Astoria. 



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