Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 3: October, 1845
Not far off, we beheld tokens that an attack had been made, and sternly resisted by the little garrison of the stockade. On the side opposite the Cape, a steep path rose towards the gate. Some twenty yards down this passage lay a native, dead, with an ugly hole ia his scull and, in a narrow path to the right, was stretched another, who had met his death from a bul let Wound in the centre of his forehead. The ball had cut the ligature which bound his 'greegree' of shells around his head, and the faithless charm lay on the ground beside him. Already, the ?ies were beginning to cluster about the dead man's mouth. The attacking party, to which these slain individuals belonged, were of the Barraky tribe. It is supposed that, knowing King Freeman to be at variance with the colonists, and hearing the salute in honour of the Commodore's landing, they mistook it for the commencement of hostilities, and came in to support the native party and gather spoil.
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