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THE TRAVELS OF
barrelled guns of their own conſtruction, generally known by the name of match-locks. They held out ſo obſtinately, that they kept poſſeſſion of the Fort for nine or ten days, and then eſcaped under the favouring gloom of night, leaving a number of their dead behind them.
After this commotion, the country became quiet, and no future diſtturbances were heard of; at leaſt, in this quarter.
The refractory were awed into ſubmiſſion by the terror of our arms; yet humanity muſt lament the loſſ of thoſe whom waging war had ſuddenly ſwept away.
Alas!
