The boys instantly obeyed; but being closely pursued by the natives, the cockswain of the pinnace, to whom the charge of the boats was committed, fired a musket over their heads.

At this they stopped and looked around them; but their alarm speedily subsiding, they brandished their lances in a threatening manner, and in a few minutes renewed the pursuit.

The firing of a second musket over their heads did not draw from them any kind of notice.

At last one of them having lifted up his spear to dart it at the boat, another piece was fired, by which he was shot dead.

At the fall of their associate, the three remaining Indians stood for awhile motionless, and seemed petrified with astonishment.