M'Koy and Quintal, the worst of the gang, escaped to the mountains.

'Here,' says Captain Beechey, 'this day of bloodshed ended, leaving only four Englishmen alive out of nine.

It was a day of emancipation to the blacks, who were now masters of the island, and of humiliation and retribution to the whites.' The men of colour now began to quarrel about choosing the women whose European husbands had been murdered; the result of which was the destruction of the whole of the former, some falling by the hands of the women, and one of them by Young, who it would seem coolly and deliberately shot him.

Adams now proceeded into the mountains to communicate the fatal intelligence to the two Europeans, M'Koy and Quintal, and to solicit their return to the village.

All these events are stated to have happened so early as October, 1793.
From this time to 1798, the remnant of the colonists would appear to have gone on quietly with the exception of some quarrels these four men had with the women, and the latter among themselves; ten of them were still remaining, who lived promiscuously with the men, frequently changing their abode from one house to another.