274 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



Venison Head, and landed close to my house on 

 Great Island; but, upon seeing the people, they 

 inmiediately took the water again and made off. 

 Four hands pursued them in a skift", killed the 

 hind, and caught the calf alive; they bound its 

 legs, and kept it so till my arrival, when I had a 

 crib made for it at the end of my house. It ap- 

 peared not to be very tunorous nor wild, but 

 seemed much distressed for want of its dam and 

 her milk, for it ate white moss, and other things 

 out of my hand, and sucked at the ends of my 

 handkerchief most eagerly; suffering me to 

 stroke it all the tune. It was ver}^ quiet when- 

 ever I was with it, but grunted incessantly, and 

 tried to get out w^hen it w^as left alone. 



Sundaff, August 1, 1779. In the afternoon John 

 Mac Carthy having behaved very ill, and, as I was 

 going to give hun a stroke with a stick, he raised 

 a hatchet at me, and took an oath upon a book 

 (which I believe was a prayer-book) that he 

 would cleave me or any other man down, who 

 shoidd offer to go near him. He made several 

 eiforts to chop at me, and some of my servants, 

 who attempted to take hun, and then ran off to the 

 other end of the island. At night he went into the 

 cook-room, where one of the people took the 

 hatchet from him, but he absconded again. 



Friday, August 6, 1779. [Mac Carthy delivered 

 himself up on August 5th.] 



In the afternoon I gave Mac Carthy twenty- 

 seven lashes with a small dog-whip on his bare 

 back, and intended to have made up the number 



