The Pine-tree coast . irbooty, rushed off in pursuit of new victims. In a short time the village was onfire in twenty j^laces. At length it would seem as if the savages themselves grew weary of theslaughter, since some fourscore persons were spared the tomahawk and these hapless captives were many aged Avomen and little children, someof whom Avere set at libeity when the Indians were about to march off. Ac-counts differ about the number slain, Mather fixing it at fifty, others at fromseventy-five to a hundred. The blow was sudden, unexpected, deadly. Yorkbecame the funeral pyre of
The Pine-tree coast . irbooty, rushed off in pursuit of new victims. In a short time the village was onfire in twenty j^laces. At length it would seem as if the savages themselves grew weary of theslaughter, since some fourscore persons were spared the tomahawk and these hapless captives were many aged Avomen and little children, someof whom Avere set at libeity when the Indians were about to march off. Ac-counts differ about the number slain, Mather fixing it at fifty, others at fromseventy-five to a hundred. The blow was sudden, unexpected, deadly. Yorkbecame the funeral pyre of its murdered iuhaliitauts; its flames were extin-guished in the blood of the victims. No wonder Mather calls the perpetratorsbloody tygres. To call this war would be a foul libel upon the word. Among the scattered houses, which then extended a mile and a half alongthe river, four or five had been expressly constructed as a defence to the were therefore called garrisons. Tliick walls of hewn timbcM- made them. CANADIAN EQUrPPED FOE A WINTEns MARCH. A RAMBLE IN OLD YUKK. oi) bullet-proof, while the inmates could, be doing deadly execution upon theiiassailants through the loopholes piercing the walls. Rude fortresses theywere, yet of signal use in repelling just such attacks as the one we have nownarrated. A few resolute or desperate men succeeded in breaking through their assail-ants, and so gaining the shelter either of Alcocks, Harmons, Nortons, ui-Prebles garrison. The enemy summoned them all to surrender, but being metwith a stern defiance, they drew off without venturing to attack. Except thesefour every house in the village was burned to the ground. At the time of this massacre, Shubael Dumnier, the minister of York, liveddown at the seaside, not far from Roaring Rock. He was shot down at hisown door, in the act of mounting his horse. His wife and son were carried off
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