NEW SOUTH WALES. <#P* 



tyould be to perform tlieir voyage without provi- 

 sions and water. 



" They therefore all agreed to stand away to 

 the Westward, and trust themselves to that pro- 

 vidence who had delivered them from the can- 

 nibals of Tate's Island. 



" Animated with hope, they continued thus 

 until the 5th. when hunger and thirst preyed 

 upon them : Mr. Carter's wound was so painful 

 that he begged to have it examined, which Mr* 

 Haskett did while Mr. Shaw held the steer oar. 

 With great difficulty the hair was cut from the 

 head, which, with the handkerchief and his 

 hair, were entirely clotted with blood. The 

 wound was in the back part of the head, and 

 appeared to have been made with a hatchet. Af- 

 ter having been washed with salt water, Mr. 

 Haskett tied it up with a piece of his shirt, and 

 Mr. Carter found himself after the dressing 

 much relieved. 



' In the afternoon they discovered land, 

 which they supposed to be the S. W. extremity 

 of New Guinea ; and on running down towards 

 it, perceiving a reef extending to the South- 

 ward, on which were several negroes, whose 

 heads only were out of the water, they were at 

 first mistaken for breakers above the water, but 

 as soon as their mistake was discovered, no one 

 was eager to try their friendship, the fate of 

 their companions being too fresh in their me- 

 mory; not even though one of the negroes held 

 up to them a large fish; no small inducement 



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