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iinmed Alerk speared him from behind^ spear after 

 spear followed^ and as he lay writhmg- on the g*round 

 his sa\ag-e murderers Hterally dashed him to pieces 

 with their clubs. The account of the manner in 

 which Neinmal met his death was given me by a 

 very intellig-ent native who had it from an eye- 

 witness^ and I have every reason to believe it true^ 

 corroborated as it was by the testimony of others. 



Even Port Essing'ton was destined to become the 

 scene of missionary" labours. A party of three 

 persons^ sent out by the '' Society for the Propag'a- 

 tion of the Faith/' one an Italian Roman Catholic 

 priest^ the others lay brothers of his order^ em- 

 barked at Sydney^ sometime in 1847. The vessel 

 conveying* them unfortunately struck on a reef near 

 the Northumberland Isles during- the nighty and 

 Father Anjello was the only one of his party saved^ 

 and reached Port Essing'ton in a most destitute 

 condition. Nothing* daunted^ however^ he com- 

 menced his labours among* the blacks^ by first 

 acquiring* the native lang'uag*e/ in which he ulti- 

 mately became so proficient as to understand it 

 thoroug*hl3\ A hut was built for him at a place 

 called Black Rock^ near the entrance of the harbour^ 

 at the distance of 14 miles from the settlement. 



* I regret that the arrangements for this work will not admit 

 of my publishing in the Appendix a Port Essington vocabulary, 

 consisting of about 650 words, in four dialects, formed in 1844, 

 and corrected and improved in 1848 ; the MSS. will be deposited 

 in the library of the British Museum. 



