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Fuller, THE PURCHASE OF FLORIDA, P. 248 ~ In the meantime Captain McKeever had captured two more prisoners of note. Violating all rules of national law and by a ruse as disgraceful as it was exceptional, Mc Keever entered the bay with the English flag at his mast head and thus lured on board his ship the Indian prophet Francis and his companion Himollemico — the latter the savage who had attacked Lieutenant Scott's expedition. These Indians, supposing the ship to be the one long looked for from England with supplies and munitions of war, had boarded her and upon being enticed into the cabin were seized and bound. The next day they were sent up to the fort and hung by Jackson's order. For the capture of St. Marks, history.and investigation are unable to present an adequate justification. But we must stand aghast at Jackson's imperial assumption of the dread prerogative of arbitrarily dooming men to death without a trial. The prophet Francis was an educated man of pleasing manners, humane disposition, well versed in English and Spanish — indeed a model chief. Himollemico was the type of the cruel, morose, bloodthirsty savage, who probably richly deserved his fate, but no one has ever explained by what law or custom, observed in the service of the United States, they were put to death, when thus captured by an ignoble stratagem, not even on the field of battle, and without the bare formality of a trial of any sort.