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I made the natives a few presents^ and g-ave them a 

 note to Captain Dohson, which I made them easily 

 understand I wanted them to take to that g-entleman. 

 I was in hopes they would then have gone, but I 

 soon found they had other intentions. A great 

 many natives were coming from all quarters well 

 armed with spears. I had given a shirt to the one 

 who had brought the note, and put it on him ; but 

 I saw him throw down the note and pull off the 

 shirt, and picking up his spear he joined the rest, 

 who were preparing to attack us. We were ex- 

 pecting every moment to be attacked and murdered 

 by these savages, our newly awakened hope already 

 beginning to fail, when Ave saw Captain Dobson and 

 Dr. Vallack, accompanied by Jackey and a man 

 named Barrett, (who had been wounded a few days 

 before in the arm by a barbed spear,) approaching 

 towards us, across the creek. I and my companion, 

 who was preserved with me, must ever be grateful 

 for the prompt courage with which these persons, 

 at the risk of their own lives, came to our assistance, 

 through the scrub and mangroves, a distance of 

 about three miles, surrounded as they were all the 

 way by a larg'e number of armed natives. 



I was reduced almost to a skeleton. The elbow 

 bone of my right arm was through the skin, as also 

 the bone of my rig'ht hip. My legs also were 

 swollen to an enormous size. Goddard walked to 

 the boat, but I could not do so without the assistance 

 of Captain Dobson and Dr. Vallack, and I had to 



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