1 10 FALL OF BAYLBT. 



same time I saw a black fellow standing in 

 the bushes about twenty -five yards from me, 

 and a little on my left. I called to our man 

 to come on, and looked towards him to enforce it 

 by gesture, and on turning my eyes again to 

 the black, I saw him with his spear quivering 

 over his head fixed in the throwing stick, and in the 

 act of taking aim. I had my gun cocked in my 

 hand, and immediately drew both triggers, but, 

 alas! they both missed fire, the spear flew, and our 

 man fell. The black fellow paused an instant, look- 

 ing intently to see if his spear had taken effect, 

 giving me time again to cock both barrels and cover 

 him, but with the same ineffectual result, when he 

 dived into the gully at his back and disappeared. 

 Yule, who, when I met him, had guessed there was 

 something wrong by the tone of my voice, and stop- 

 ped, ran forward to pick up our man, whose name 

 was Bayley. After rushing to the edge of the 

 ravine, shouting for muskets, and finding no black 

 fellow to be seen, I went to him and found Yule 

 breaking off the long end of the spear, which was 

 deeply fixed in the back between the shoulder blades, 

 and the poor fellow writhing on his hands and knees 

 in great pain, begging us to take it out. This could 

 not now be done, and on M'Clatchie saying he must 

 be taken on board first, he was carried down to the 

 boat, while the Doctor and myself, with another 

 man, kept guard at the edge of the ravine. In order 

 to try my gun, I fired into the bushes of the ravine, 



