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his club, that the latter fell under the blow^ 

 although it had been in a great meafure warded 

 off by his cap. The afHilIin inftantly took 

 away his mulket- The other fentry immedi- 

 ately called up thofe who were fleeping in the 

 tents. The alarm was given : every one flew 

 to arms ; feveral went down clofer to the beach, 

 with the intention of getting into the launch, 

 if the iflanders had come and fallen on them in 

 great numbers. The watch-Mord was heard on 

 board of the Efperance, ftie having the day be- 

 fore moored within hail of the fiiore; ihe im- 

 mediately let off fome falfe fires, to apprize 

 the Recherche; but all apprehenfion of a ge- 

 neral attacic on the part of the natives was 

 fpcedily banifhed, for it was very foon afcer- 

 taincd that moft of them were Irill fleeping 

 round our eflablifhment, and that thofc who' 

 had jult been awaked were going away from it : 

 bcfidcs, an officer who arrived from the heart 

 of the liland, alrnoft at the very moment of this 

 alfault, reported that he had fcen a great num- 

 ber of inli.iLitants, and that they ail appeared 

 to him to be found aflecp. 



The commander of the expedition went on 

 fhore about fix o'clock in the morning, with a 

 detu; hmcnt well-arn.cd. He gave orders to 

 ilriKe the teats uiftaiuly^ and to convey them 



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