The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-04

| reported that our men were acting as II
drunk, and that every native appeared
| to be armed. sent back word that
would not leave the schooner, and half
an hour later the expected climax came.
We heard general bowling and shout
| ing, and Parker, who was again aloft,
hurried down to report that he had
seen three of our crew dubbed to death.
He had scarcely gained the deck when
about two hundred natives made rush
for the canoes drawn up opposite us.
While we were not more than one hum
dred feet from the shore, in water about
three fathoms deep, the natives had to
swim or take to their canoes. There
were lots of sharks in the cove, and so
none of them ventured to plunge in.
While Parker ran to slip the cable l
ran aft to the wheel. There was bit
of breeze, and favorable at that,
while the run of the tide alone would
take us slowly out. Time was what we
wanted. and seeing that the canoes were
ready to shove off | trained the gun a
little lower, applied my lighted cigar
to the printing, and no one discharge
from six-pounder ever had greater
effect. 1t destroyed three or four
canoes, killed or wounded score of
natives, and the smoke had scarcely
blown away before the schooner began
moving. The natives were checked for
the moment, giving us time to hoist the
mainsail a little higher, and when they
began the pursuit we were moving down
the channel at about three miles an
hour. 1t was lucky that | had cleaned
up the muskets and prepared a plenty
of ammunition. But for the firearn S
we would have been boarded with a
rush, for upward of hundred natives
crowded into canoes to pursue. The
channel was narrow, but well defined,
and while | held the wheel and kept her
going Parker was busy with the mus
kets. He fired in turn at each canoe,
and whenever he hit a man it threw all
into confusion and checked pursuit for
several minutes. By and by he got
time enough to reload the cannon, and
this time he rammed in a solid shot. The
natives seemed TO look upon it as a gun
which had only one speech or report
and though the solid shot hit no one,
their confusion was very great. Soon
after this Parker killed man in the
foremost canoe, and then all fell back.
We now got the foresail on her and
the other jibs, and the schooner crept
along so fast that pursuit was given
over, much to our satisfaction. We
kept TO the southwark, following the
channels between the Islands, until
about five o'clock in the afternoon,
when we met the trading schooner
Junta, owned by our same firm, which
had loaded at the Tubal Islands, and
was going to add few more packages
at the Horseshoe. We divided the
crews and sailed around to the Tongas,
where two whalers were refitting. We
here got enough volunteers to increase
our number to fifty, borrowed muskets
and cutlasses, and returned to Old
Lop's headquarters in the Frisco. He
showed fight when we landed, but soon
became panic stricken and ceased re-
sistance. We first made sure that all
our men had been murdered. and then
the men were let loose for revenge.
They were a wild lot, and they felt it
necessary to teach the natives n lesson,
and the hunting down and killing went
on for three days. Neither age nor sex
met with mercy, and the number of vic
tins must have counted up fully two
hundred. The Horseshoe was, in fact,
depOpulated. and since that date no
native in any of the groups has dared to
raise his hand against white man,
much less plot the slaughter of a crew
and the taking of ship.-N. Y. Sun.