Accordingly the scow was shoved inshore, and Flynn jumped on the bank, only to be immediately seized by the Indians, who then opened fire on the others.

They tried to put off, and fired back, but they were helpless; one man and a girl were shot, another wounded, and the savages then swarmed aboard, seized everything, and got very drunk on a keg of whiskey.

The fates of the captives were various, each falling to some different group of savages.

Flynn, the cause of the trouble, fell to the Cherokees, who took him to the Miami town, and burned him alive, with dreadful torments.

The remaining girl, after suffering outrage and hardship, was bound to the stake, but saved by a merciful Indian, who sent her home.