 | George Barrington - 1802 - 592 páginas
...same with, considering them useless; the muskets they prized very much ; and one of tile savagcsi in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel of powder, and, filling the pan of the piece, snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion of which... | |
 | 1811 - 424 páginas
...with, considering them useless ; the muskets they prized very much ; and one of the savages, in bis eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel of powder, and filling the pan of the piece, snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion of which... | |
 | 1856 - 184 páginas
...overboard, considering them useless ; the muskets they prized very much, and one of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel...eight or nine men, and set part of the ship on fire. When the ship had been plundered of almost every thing that was valuable, a cask of gunpowder, which... | |
 | Louis Becke - 1897 - 396 páginas
...overboard, considering them useless. The muskets they prized very much, and one of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrel...pan of the piece snapped it directly over the cask ! In an instant the powder exploded, and killed five native women and nine men, and set the ship on... | |
 | New South Wales - 1901 - 780 páginas
...much; and one of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and filling the pan of the piece snapped it directly...and eight or nine men, and set part of the ship on tire. From the foregoing details it appears that neitherTippahee nor his son My tye had any share in... | |
 | Robert McNab - 1908 - 804 páginas
...of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and fi'ling the pan of the piece snapped it directly over the...and set part of the ship on fire. From the foregoing details it appears that neither Tippahee nor his son Mytye had any share in the barbarous acts committed... | |
 | Robert McNab - 1914 - 264 páginas
...much ; and one of the savages, in his eagerness to try one, stove in the head of a barrell of powder, and filling the pan of the piece snapped it directly...eight or nine men, and set part of the ship on fire." This, the reader will notice, puts the position in regard to Te Pahi in an entirely different light.... | |
 | Richard Alexander Cruise - 1921 - 170 páginas
...natives. One account of the massacre states that in his eagerness to try one of the muskets a native stove in the head of a barrel of gunpowder, and filling the pan of the firearm he snapped it right over the opened barrel. The explosion killed five native Women, eight or... | |
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... and filling the pan of the piece, snapped it directly over the cask, the explosion of which killed five native women, and eight or nine men, and set part of the ship on fire. 