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away to Valparaiso, where they delivered the ship 

 to Michael Hogan, the American consul. 



The flight of the ship left Silas Payne, John 

 Oliver, Thomas Liliston, Roland Coffin, William 

 Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey, Columbus Worth, and 

 the Sandwich Islander on the beach. For 

 several days Payne and his chums ruled the 

 camp by terror. They tried to rule the natives 

 in the same way, and to this end they brutally 

 flogged two women and put one man in irons. 

 For this, on February 23, the natives began throw- 

 ing stones at the camp. Payne, seeing what he 

 had brought upon himself and associates, strove 

 to pacify the natives, but it was now too late. 

 They continued the attack, and all but Lay and 

 Hussey were soon killed. Why these two men 

 were saved was never definitely learned. Each 

 was adopted by a native family, and they were 

 well treated until the United States war schooner 

 Dolphin, Lieutenant Commander John Percival, 

 reached the island on December 29, 1825, and took 

 them away. 



The story of the whale ships that were used in 

 carrying slaves from Africa to a market in the two 



