172 THE END OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE. 



river, the consequences of which disaster were 

 nearly fatal to his life. 



When sufficiently recovered, he waited on the 

 governor ; and though his innocence was acknow- 

 ledged, he was commanded to quit the colony 

 without delay. 



His unhappy fate still pursued him ; for the 

 vessel in which he sailed was scarcely out of the 

 harbour when it was attacked by two privateers 

 and captured, and Dombey, disguised as a Spanish 

 sailor, was thrown into prison in the island of 

 Monserrat, where ill-treatment, grief, and disease, 

 put a period to his eventful life in the spring of 

 1796. 



