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assailants, and he was raising his sabre for the second 

 time, when a lasso was flung over his head, and he 

 fell helpless to the ground. The long and terrible 

 yell that now rang along the shore, and was re-echoed 

 from the adjacent forest, proclaimed the complete and 

 bloody triumph of the red men. 



The bullet that grazed the arm of El Sol pierced 

 the heart of Canondah, and the day subsequent to 

 the sanguinary conflict above described, witnessed 

 her interment, and that of the Indians who fell in 

 the fight. At the funeral a difference of opinion 

 arose between the Oconees and Comanches. The 

 number of slain pirates was insufficient to furnish a 

 scalp to be buried with each of the dead Indians, 

 and, to supply the deficiency, the Oconees were 

 anxious to immolate Lafitte and twelve of his com- 

 panions who had fallen alive into their hands. To 

 this El Sol and his warriors, free from many of the 

 barbarous prejudices of their new brethren, objected. 

 Two of the pirates were sacrificed to an outbreak of 

 Indian fury, but the others were saved by El Sol, 

 and it then became a question how they were to be 

 disposed of. It was proposed to deliver them over to 

 the Americans, that they might deal with them ac- 

 cording to their laws; but Tokeah, with a refine- 

 ment of hatred towards the white men, devised an, 

 amendment upon this plan. Sooner or later, he said, 

 they will come to the tree upon which they are to 

 hang. Meanwhile let them go at large, and cause 



