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lying on the beach ; and at a little distance, the dogs 

 gnawing their entrails. 



" Whilst we remained almost stupefied on the spot, Mr. 

 Fannin called to us that he heard the savages gathering 

 together in the woods ; on which I returned to the boat, and 

 hauling alongside the canoes, we demolished three of them. 

 Whilst this was transacting, the fire on the top of the hill 

 disappeared, and we could hear the Indians in the woods at 

 high words ; I suppose quarrelling whether or no they 

 should attack us, and try to save their canoes. It now grew 

 dark ; I therefore just stepped out, and looked once more 

 behind the beach, to see if the cutter had been hauled up in 

 the bushes ; but seeing nothing of her, returned and put off. 

 Our whole force would have been barely sufficient to have 

 gone up the hill ; and to have ventured with half (for half 

 must have been left to guard the boat) would have been 

 fool-hardiness. 



" As we opened the upper part of the Sound, we saw a 

 very large fire about three or four miles higher up, which 

 formed a complete oval, reaching from the top of a hill 

 down almost to the water side, the middle space being in- 

 closed all round by the fire, like a hedge. I consulted with 

 Mr. Fannin, and we were both of opinion, that we could 

 expect to reap no other advantage than the poor satisfaction 

 of killing some more of the savages. 



" Coming between two round islands, situated to the 

 southward of East Bay, we imagined we heard somebody 

 calling ; we lay on our oars and listened, but heard no more 

 of it ; we hallooed several times, but to little purpose ; the 

 poor souls were far enough out of hearing ; and, indeed, I 

 think it some comfort to reflect, that, in all probability, 

 every man of them must have been killed on the spot." 



Thus far Mr. Burney's report ; and, to complete the 

 account of this tragical transaction, it may not be unneces- 

 sary to mention, that the people in the cutter were Mr. 

 Rowe ; Mr. Woodhouse ; Francis Murphy, quarter- 

 master ; William Facey, Thomas Hill, Michael Bell, and 

 Edward Jones, forecastle-men ; John Cavenaugh and 

 Thomas Milton, belonging to the after-guard ; and James 

 Sevilley, the Captain's man, being ten in all. Most of 

 these were their very best seamen, the stoutest and most 

 healthy people in the ship. Mr. Burney's party brought 

 on board two hands, one belonging to Mr. Rowe, known by 

 a hurt he had received on it ; the other to Thomas Hill, as 

 before mentioned ; and the head of the Captain's servant. 

 These, with more of the remains, were tied in a hammock, 

 and thrown overboard, with ballast and shot sufficient to 

 sink it. 



