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or stand our chance of being- speared in the attempt, 

 both of us being- unable to stand any longer. We 

 presented our guns at the two by our side, making 

 signs to them to send the others away, or we would 

 shoot them immediately. This they did, and they 

 ran off in all dii'ections without a spear being* thrown 

 or a shot fired. We had many times tried to catch 

 fish in the creek during our stay at Weymouth Bay, 

 with our fishing lines, but never could g*et as much 

 as a bite at the bait. 



As the evening came on, there came with it the 

 painful task of removing the bodies of our unfor- 

 tunate companions who had died in the morning. 

 We had not strength to make the smallest hole in 

 the ground as a grave j but after great exertion we 

 succeeded in removing the bodies to a small patch 

 of phyllanthus scrub, about four feet high, and 

 eighty yards from the tent. We then laid them 

 side by side, and covered them with a few small 

 branches, and this was all the burial we were 

 enabled to give them. 



Dec. 29th. — Goddard went into the scrub, and 

 shot three pigeons. We ate one of them at night, 

 and the others we reserved till next day. Our 

 bowels were greatly relaxed, which was partly 

 stayed by eating a few nondas, which we got 

 occasionally. 



The six weeks having expired, which Mr. Ken- 

 nedy had led me to expect would be the longest 

 period we should have to wait, I now began to fear 



