The Pine-tree coast . theirbooty, rushed off in pursuit of new victims. In a short time the village was onfire in twenty places. 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 women and little children, someof whom were set at liberty 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 . theirbooty, rushed off in pursuit of new victims. In a short time the village was onfire in twenty places. 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 women and little children, someof whom were set at liberty 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 inhabitants; its flames were extin-guished in the blood of the victims. No wonder Mather calls the perpetrators bloody 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 Thick walls of hewn timber made them. CANADIAN EQUIPPED FOR A WINTERS MARCH. A RAMBLE IN OLD YKK. .... bullet-proof, while the inmates could be doing deadly execution upon theirassailants through the Loopholes piercing the walls. Rude fortn they were, yet of >i;-,rnal use in repelling just such attack-, as the one we have now narrated. A tew resolute nr desperate men succeeded in breaking through their assail-ants, and so gaining the shelter either of Alcocks, Harmons, NortonsPrebles garrison The enemy summoned them all to surrender, hut 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 Dummer, 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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