. The travellers' own book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls, and Canada ... a complete guide for the valetudinarian and for the tourist ... s they may be differentlyesteemed, there must be awarded to them the praise ofbeing as enduring and as brave a set of fellows as everassembled together. They left the island because theUnited States would not countenance them, and in ac-cordance with the wishes of American citizens, who in-terposed to effect their dispersion. An expression of oneof the leaders, before leaving, was—I fiar not myenemies, but my friends. There is an occurrence connected wi
. The travellers' own book, to Saratoga Springs, Niagara Falls, and Canada ... a complete guide for the valetudinarian and for the tourist ... s they may be differentlyesteemed, there must be awarded to them the praise ofbeing as enduring and as brave a set of fellows as everassembled together. They left the island because theUnited States would not countenance them, and in ac-cordance with the wishes of American citizens, who in-terposed to effect their dispersion. An expression of oneof the leaders, before leaving, was—I fiar not myenemies, but my friends. There is an occurrence connected with the Navy islandaffair, painful to relate. The steamboat Caroline came from Buffalo, on the 29thof December, it was said, to ply as a ferry-boat betweenSchlosser and Navy island. It passed, that day, forthand back several times, and before sun-down was broughtto at the wharf, at Schlosser, and moored for the that place, there was but one house, and that a warlike movements between the patriots and British,had drawn to the frontier, through motives of curiosity,a great number of persons. The tavern was crowded —. JAUNT TO THE ISLANDS. 169 Beacon Light. lodgings could not be obtained—and several persons, ob-serving the steamboat, sought for accommodalions onboard, and were received. In the middle of the night,the watch, for a watch on board steamboats is usuallykept, saw something advancing on the water. He hailed,but before he could give the alarm, a body of armed menrushed on board, shot at the sentinel, and all they met,crying — Cut them down! Give no quarters!No arms were on board of the boat; no attack was ex-pected; and no resistance was made. Some got on shoreuninjured; others were severely cut and dangerouslywounded. One man was shot dead on the wharf, andtwelve were missing, either killed, or burnt and sunk withthe boat. They towed the boat out in the river, and set it on fire;the flames burst forth; it drifted slowly, and its blazeshone far
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