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or stand our chance of being* speared in the attempt, 

 both of us being' unable to stand any long"er. We 

 presented our guns at the two by our side, making* 

 sig'ns to them to send the others away, or we would 

 shoot them immediately. This they did, and they 

 ran off in all directions without a spear being* thrown 

 or a shot fired. We had many times tried to catch 

 fish in the creek during- our stay at Weymouth Bay, 

 with our fishing' lines, but never could g-et as much 

 as a bite at the bait. 



As the evening- came on, there came with it the 

 painful task of removing- the bodies of our unfor- 

 tunate companions who had died in the morning-. 

 We had not streng-th to make the smallest hole in 

 the ground as a g-rave j but after g-reat exertion we 

 succeeded in removing- the bodies to a small patch 

 of ph^dlanthus scrub, about four feet hig-h, and 

 eig-hty yards from the tent. We then laid them 

 side by side, and covered them with a few small 

 branches, and this was all the burial we were 

 enabled to g-ive them. 



Dec. 29th. — Goddard went into the scrub, and 

 shot three pig-eons. We ate one of them at nig-ht, 

 and the otliers we reserved till next day. Our 

 bowels were g-reatly relaxed, which was partly 

 stayed by eating- a few nondas, which we got 

 occasionally. 



The six weeks having' expired, which Mr. Ken- 

 nedy had led me to expect would be the long-est 

 period we should have to \^ait, I now beg'an to fear 



