The body was laid on a plank, and the head bound with a red fillet.

It was then wrapped in an otter-skin robe and placed in a large coffin, which was ornamented with rows of white shells.

It was buried by night in a cavern." The _tyees_ or chiefs had discussed often the policy of putting Mr.Jewett and Mr.Thompson to death, and so end all evidence of the destruction of the Boston in the event of new ships appearing on the coast.

But the spectacle of Tootooch staring at the ghosts of the men that he had killed, and wasting away amid days and nights of horror, made them fear that the other warriors engaged in the massacre would become affected in the like way, and deterred them from any further violence.

Jewett was at last rescued by a trading-ship, and was taken to the Columbia River, where he arrived shortly after the visit of Lewis and Clarke, of the famous expedition that bears these names.