Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1880-10-06

children and grand children, still
pursued their barbarous actions
with impunity; and being somewhat
numerous, they would attack four,
five, or six men together, if they |
were on foot. AS for horseman,
two were the most they would ever
set. on. and then with such caution,
that an ambuscade was laid TO
secure them, ride which way they
would, provided one or both made
their escape from the first assail-
ants. Thus, whose fortune sOever
it was to fall into their barbarous
hands, he or she never came of
with their lives. The place was
solitary where they inhabited; and,
when the tide came up, the water
went for near two hundred yards
into their subterraneOus habitation,
which reach almost mile under
ground; so that if they were seen
whereabouts by any person. it was
not in the least suspected that any
thing human resided in such a dis
NAL place of perpetual horror and
darkness.
The number Of people they had
killed was not exactly known; but
it was reckoned that in the twenty
I. five years they had reigned in
these inhuman slaughters they had
washed their hands in the blood of
above one thousand men, wO.
men and children. At last the dis
covery of the cannibals was thus
made:
\ man and his wife, who was
behind him on the same horse, com.
! ing one evening from a fair, and
I falling into an ambuscade OF these
merciless wretches, they fell upon
/ them in a most furious manner; the
man, to save himself as well he
could, fought it bravely against
them with sword and pistol, riding
some of them down by main force
of his horse, from which his wife
in the conflict fell off. and was pres
emily murdered before the hus-
bands face; for the female canni.
balls forthwith cut her throat, suck
ing her blood with as great a gusto
as if it had been wine, ripped up
her belly and pulled out all her en-
trails: which unparalleled barbarity
made the poor man make all the
more obstinate resistance, rs eX.
pecting the same fate if he fell into
their impious hands. 1t pleased
. Providence that twenty or thirty
passengers were riding that why
from the same fair that he had been
at. and Sawney Bcane and his
bloodthirsty elan withdrew, made
the best of their WAY through q
solitary wood, aud so retired to
their den.
The man, who was the first that
ever came of alive after falling
into their hands, told the passengers
what had happened, and showed
them the bloody spectacle of his
, wife, whom the murderers had
dragged some distance of, which
struck them all with stupeiactioi
and amazement. They carried hin
/, with them to Glasgow, and relating
the matter to the provost of tina
, city, he Immediately sent to thu
king about il, who, in three or tOu
, days, came in person thither, being
DESTROYS of seeing the apprchend
ing of this villain, who, tor SO man,
years, had been the pest of thu
, western part of his Kingdom.
A body of about 400 men. wei
p armed. set out on horseback will
!. the king, who had several blood
D.. hounds with him, aud went will
p the man To the wood in which h.
$ was attacked, but found no sign O
!. any habitation all over it. The.
q then went through it, which LEI
J. down TO the seaside, when, the It'd
$ being out, and going along til
# shore, they passed by the cave @
d Sawney Became, without taking an
/. notice of it as a place of habitatiou
i until some Of the bloodhounds run
if ming into it, and setting up mos
Y hideous barking, bowling and yelI
ing. the king and his attendant
came back and looked into it; bu1
n seeing nothing but darkness, the
T, could not tell what ia think, bu
n nevertheless, imagined sOmethin
Il more than ordinary by the blood
- hounds making such noise Their
~ going out of sight, and appeariu
quite unwilling to come out.
N Torches we're sent for. and gres
n many men ventured into it; thong
q there were several intricate turf