CHAPTER XI.
MARLOWE MANN'S NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE.
Besides the Narrative of Lewis and Clarke, which was used in the school as a reader, Mr.Mann made use of another book in his teaching which greatly delighted his pupils and often awakened their sympathies.

It was called "John E.Jewett and Thompson." It presented a picture of life on the coast early in the century.

The strange story was much as follows: _THE ROBINSON CRUSOE OF VANCOUVER._ About the year 1802 the ship Boston, from Boston, Mass., went to Hull, England, to secure a cargo of goods to carry to the Indians on the Northwest coast of America to trade for furs.

She was a general trading-vessel, such as roamed the seas of the world adventurously at that time, and often made fortunes for the merchants of New York, Boston, and other Atlantic port cities.
She was commanded by Captain John Salter, a clever man and a natural story-teller, whose engaging pictures of travel were sure to fascinate the young.
While in England this man met a lad by the name of John Rogers Jewett, who listened eagerly to his romantic adventures, and who desired to embark with him for America, and was allowed by his parents to make the voyage.
The ship sailed around Cape Horn to Nootka Island, one of the islands on the west coast of Vancouver Island between the forty-ninth and fiftieth parallel.

Here the whole crew, with the exception of young Jewett and a man by the name of Thompson, were massacred by the Indians, and the strange and tragic narrative of the survivors was an American and English wonder-tale seventy years ago.