By the first opportunity they were sent back to St.Augustine, the possessors of all of Ashlock's worldly goods and effects, consisting of a good rifle, several cast-nets, hand-lines, etc., etc., besides some three hundred dollars in money, which was due him by the quartermaster for his services as pilot.

I afterward saw these ladies at St.Augustine, and years afterward the younger one came to Charleston, South Carolina, the wife of the somewhat famous Captain Thistle, agent for the United States for live-oak in Florida, who was noted as the first of the troublesome class of inventors of modern artillery.

He was the inventor of a gun that "did not recoil at all," or "if anything it recoiled a little forward." One day, in the summer of 1841, the sentinel on the housetop at Fort Pierce called out, "Indians! Indians!" Everybody sprang to his gun, the companies formed promptly on the parade-ground, and soon were reported as approaching the post, from the pine-woods in rear, four Indians on horseback.

They rode straight up to the gateway, dismounted, and came in.

They were conducted by the officer of the day to the commanding officer, Major Childs, who sat on the porch in front of his own room.