How well he succeeded has been shown.

His companions bade him a melancholy adieu, and set off on their precarious expedition.

They strove with might and main to get out of the bay, but found it impossible to weather a point of land, and were at length compelled to take shelter in a small cove, where they hoped to remain concealed until the wind should be more favorable.

Exhausted by fatigue and watching, they fell into a sound sleep, and in that state were surprised by the savages.

Better had it been for those unfortunate men had they remained with Lewis, and shared his heroic death: as it was, they perished in a more painful and protracted manner, being sacrificed by the natives to the manes of their friends with all the lingering tortures of savage cruelty.