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on him for two days. There was very little flesh 

 on his hones, hut our dried meat was so bad, that 

 we very much enjoyed the remains of our old com- 

 panion, and drank the water ia which we hoiled 

 him, 



Dec. 24:th ^The natives took a tin case from 



Wall whUst he was talking' to them, he not heing 

 ahle to resist them. My legs had swelled very 

 much, and I was ahle to walk but a very short dis- 

 tance. 



Dec. 26th. — The natives brought us a few pieces 

 of fish and turtle, hut both were almost rotten ■ they 

 also gave us a blue-tongued lizard, which I opened 

 and took out eleven young ones, which we roasted 

 and ate. There was nothing but scales on the old 

 one, except in its tail. 



We always equally divided whatever we got from 

 the natives, be it what it might ; but they brought 

 us very Httle that was eatable. I could easily per- 

 ceive that their pretended good feeling towards us 

 was assumed for the sake of fulfilling their own 

 designs upon us. Although they tried to make us 

 beheve they were doing all in their power to benefit 

 us, their object was to obtain an opportunity of 

 coming upon us by surprise and destroying us. 

 They had at many times seen the fatal effects of 

 our fire-arms, and I beheve that it was only the 

 dread of these, that prevented them from faUing" 

 upon us at once, and murdering us. They were a 

 much finer race of men than the natives we had 



