gO -VOYAGE FROM OKrKOTZK 



I took to avoid the - fliedding of blood, yet it cannot 

 foe imagined but that fome of them muft have been 

 killed. I was defkous of knowing fome thing more ac- 

 curately of this circumftance ; but in vain : for they either 

 ■took their dead away with them, or threw them into the 

 lea. We took -upwards of iooo Konasges prifoners; the 

 reft, certainly not fewer than 3000, efcaped by flight : 

 400 of the prifoners we took with us io die harbour ; 

 and the others I fet a liberty. Of thofe we retained I 

 .chofe one to be their leader, called in the konaegan 

 language, Oiafkak, to whom I afterwards gave full 

 command over all the reft, prefenting them with bai- 

 dars, baidarks#, nets, and other necefTary imple- 

 ments ; but at the fame time taking twenty of their 

 .children as hoflages for fecuring dieir fidelity. Thefe 

 -prifoners, expreffinga defire to fettle at the diftance of 

 15 vcrfls from the harbour, T complied with their re- 

 cueft. In die fequel they proved conftantly faithful 

 allies ; and I learnt from them tl^at we certainly could 

 not have efcaped the utmofi danger, or even entire de- 

 feuc'tion, had we waited till the other Konasges had come 

 to their affiflance ; who confifted of a very numerous 

 army, and -were already very near the fort. But now 

 the fugitives that met them informed them of fome- 

 thing more dreadful than in fact it was ; and affined 

 them, that, with our fire-arms, we might accomplifh 

 whatever we would, for, that with our darts we had de- 

 ftroyed their rocks and their habitations ; by which they 

 lb much intimidated the others, that they immediately 

 ran back again. Notwithftanding all this, the favages 5 



* The diminutive of Baidars. 



excepting 



