When the village was reached it was found to be defended by a strong stockade, with a trench inside, from which the crouching natives could fire through loopholes, while outside of the stockade was a deep ditch of water.

Feeling their position impregnable, the savages flourished their weapons and uttered tantalizing whoops at the white men.

The whoops quickly changed when the cabins within the stockade were set on fire by a rocket.

The natives fled, leaving the village to be burned to ashes.
The Americans pushed hostilities so aggressively that on the following day the islanders sued for peace.
The squadron next sailed to the Hawaiian Islands, where several months were spent in exploration.

Then the coast of Oregon was visited and the _Peacock_ suffered wreck at the mouth of the Columbia.