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was again attacked, and received tlieir spears 

 with the greatest dexterity, till some treache- 

 rous native took a station on one side, and fixed 

 a spear in his back, which remained there. On 

 this, they proceeded a second time to rush on 

 him, when he had just strength enough left to 

 make his escape into a house, where he was 

 kindly received, but immediately fainted. 



The spear being drawn, and his wounds 

 dressed, by a surgeon, in a few days he was 

 able to walk. His brother, who had accom- 

 panied him to the battle, stood up in his 

 defence, and was wounded both in the leg and 

 thigh. 



The principal sufferer in this affair was one 

 named William and Ann, which he had adopted 

 from a ship of that name which arrived in the 



year 1791. 



Some of the women on this occasion howled 

 and cried alternately when they were enraged, 

 which often happened, they danced and beat 

 their sides with their arms; a proof of their 

 passions being affected. 



On the 31st, an open boat, from the Hawkes- 

 bury, which arrived with Indian corn, had been 

 boarded in her passage by a party of natives in 

 canoes. They were suffered to come in the 

 boat, when watching an opportunity, they made 

 an attempt to seize, the arms. This caused a 

 struggle, in which the boat's crew prevailed, 

 but not before some of these black pirates had 

 lost their lives. 



