Yet he lived, and to get him back his tribe gave up Mrs.
Guard and a child.

The other child was withheld by another chief.
Again a strong armed party was landed and was peacefully met by the natives, who brought the child down, but still asked, naturally, for the stipulated ransom.

The sailors and soldiers settled the matter by shooting down a chief, on whose shoulders the child was sitting, and firing right and left before the officers in charge could stop them.
Next day these men made a football of the chief's head.

Before departing the _Alligator_ bombarded _pas_, and her crew burnt villages and destroyed canoes and cultivations.

If the man-of-war without guns was a figure of fun, the man-of-war with guns excited disgust by these doings even as far away as England.