European Survivors
Five people were spared in the massacre: Ann Morley and her baby, in a cabin; Apprentice Thomas Davis (or Davison), hidden in the hold; the second mate; and two-year-old Betsy Broughton, taken by a local chief who put a feather in her hair and kept her for three weeks before rescue. The mate was killed and eaten when his usefulness in making fish-hooks was exhausted.
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