The sufferings and escape of CaptChasHBrown from an awful imprisonment by Chilian convicts . CAPT. CHARLES H. BROWN. 127 ing for somebody from whom I couldobtain information. Mr. Dunn I couldnot see, Le being still under guard,confined with captains Avalos and Salas;but I soon met my old fellow-prisoner,the English mate, and from him andsome of the Chilians I gathered thecause of the uproar. There had been several visits fromthe Indians during the last week or two,and there was some reason to supposethat some of these late visitors hadcome as spies. The herdsmen who hadthe charge of the cattle
The sufferings and escape of CaptChasHBrown from an awful imprisonment by Chilian convicts . CAPT. CHARLES H. BROWN. 127 ing for somebody from whom I couldobtain information. Mr. Dunn I couldnot see, Le being still under guard,confined with captains Avalos and Salas;but I soon met my old fellow-prisoner,the English mate, and from him andsome of the Chilians I gathered thecause of the uproar. There had been several visits fromthe Indians during the last week or two,and there was some reason to supposethat some of these late visitors hadcome as spies. The herdsmen who hadthe charge of the cattle belonging tothe colony, had reported that they hadof late seen Indians, armed, lurkingaround the cattle, and hanging aboutthe Avoods which surrounded the can-tonment. This had roused Cambiasossuspicions, and on the day after I re-moved to the Florida, he had seized 128 IMPKISONMENT AND ESCAPE OP two Indian boys who had been livingsome time in the barracks, and, appar-ently with the design of intimidatingthe Indians, had ordered them to beconveyed to a point about two milesdistant, at a
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