WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
voured, entrails, bones, and all. The little girl was much 
frightened, and endeavoured to hide herfelf behind the 
old man, to efcape the leaft obfervation. 
30th. Captain Campbell of the marines, who had beeA 
up the harbour to procure fome rufhes for thatch, brought 
to the hofpital the bodies of William Okey and Samuel Davis, 
two ru£h-cutters, whom he had found murdered by the natives 
in a fhocking manner. Okey was transfixed through the 
breaft with one of their fpears, which with great difficulty 
and force was pulled out. He had two other fpears flicking 
in him to a depth which muft have proved mortal. His 
ilcuU was divided and comminuted fo much that his 
brains eafily found a pafTage through. His eyes were out, 
but thefe might have been picked away by birds. Davis 
was a youth, and had only fome trifling marks of violence 
about him. This lad could not have been many hours dead ; 
for when Captain Campbell found him, which was among 
fome mangrove-trees, and at a confiderable diftance from 
the place where the other man lay, he was not ftiff, nor very 
cold ; nor was he perfe6lly fo when brought to the hofpital. 
From thefe circumftances we have been led to think that 
while they were difpatching Okey, he had crept to the 
trees 
