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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Massacre of a crew of a South-sea Whaler. (search)
e number of hands on board, besides himself, were five--the cook and four seamen. He had his wife and two children on board.--The natives first endeavored to secure him and throw him overboard; but he managed to break away from them, and rushed to his cabin for firearms. They next attacked the wife, who also succeeded in escaping their vengeance, and sought refuge with her husband in the cabin, where they kept up a constant firing on the natives, who, failing in their object of capturing the ship, jumped into their canoes and made off, carrying with them one of the children, a fine little boy about five years old. He (the master,) with the surviving portion of the crew, afterward pursued some of the canoes, in the hope of recovering his child, but failed to do so. Next morning got under way, and proceeded to Russell's Island, where the chief of the natives, on hearing of the occurrence, offered to intercede, and if possible obtain possession of the child, but with no better result.