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and arrived there on the ift, of May following, where they were re- 

 ceived with the greater!: hofpitality by the governor, who fupplied 

 them with every thing neceffary for people in their fituation, and pro- 

 vided them with a pafTage on board an Indiaman bound to Batavia, 

 where they arrived on the ioth of the following Odober; adding 

 another to the many inftances of efcape from the perils which attend 

 on thofe whofe hard fate have driven them to navigate the ocean in 

 an open boat. 



Hard indeed was the fate of Captain Hill and Mr. Carter. They 

 were gentlemen of liberal education, qualified to adorn the circles of 

 life in which their rank in fociety placed them. How lamentable thus 

 to periih, the one by the hands and rude weapons of barbarous fa- 

 vages, cut offin the prime of life and mod perfecT enjoyment of his fa- 

 culties, loft for ever to a widowed parent and a filler whom he ten- 

 derly loved, his body mangled, roafted, and devoured by cannibals ; 

 the other, after efcaping from thofe cannibals, to periih. * in a country 

 where all were ftrangers to him, except his two companions in 

 mifery, to give up all his future profpecTs in life, never more to meet 

 the cheering eye of friendmip or of love, and without having had the 

 melancholy fatisfa&ion of recounting his perils, his efcape, and fufTer- 

 ings, to thofe who would fympathize with him in the tale of his 

 forrow r s. 



On the ioth of March the American failed for the north weft coaft 

 of America. In her went Mr. James Fitzpatrick Knarefbro', a gen- 

 tleman whofe hard lot it had been to be doomed to baniihment for 

 life from his native country, Ireland, and the enjoyment of a com- 

 fortable fortune which he there pofTefted. He lived during his resi- 

 dence at Parramatta with the moft rigid economy and fevere felf- 

 denial even of the common comforts of life. 



* It is evident, if this account be true, that Mr. Dell muft have been miftaken in his opinios 

 of having carritd on board the Shah Hormuzear a hand which, from a certain mark on it, he 

 knew to have belonged to Mr. Carter. 



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