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“ on the ground" when shooting/' I cannot help suspecting some 
exaggeration in his informer. 
After breakfast next morning, I took our prisoner to the tents. 
On approaching the shore, he was preparing to make a spring out 
of the boat, which made it necessary to bind him again, for he had 
been loosed on board the ship. He struggled much, calling upon 
Bongaree to assist him ; but after a while, became quiet, and I left 
him bound to a tree, eating rice and fish. 
A party of the gentlemen landed near the head of the bay, 
hoping to botanize without interruption ; but a number of natives 
had collected there, two of whom advanced, and sought to entice 
them into the wood by explaining how many animals might be there 
shot. The gentlemen were aware of the treachery, and soon thought 
it advisable to return to the boat ; upon which the natives closed in 
upon them, with poised spears and every appearance of intended 
mischief. The pointing of muskets stopped their forwardness for a 
moment; but they came on again, and a shot was fired at each of 
the two foremost, which put them to flight, and they were not seen 
afterwards ; but the gentlemen thought it unsafe to proceed in their 
occupation, and returned to the ship. Neither of the two natives 
dropped ; but the muskets being loaded with buck shot, it was sup- 
posed that one or both, must have been wounded. 
The second evening of Woga’s captivity came, and there was 
no appearance of the axe being restored ; his detention, on the con- 
trary, had caused some annoyance to us, and mischief to his country- 
men; and if persevered in to the extent of carrying him away, might 
be an injury to those who should come after us, especially to captain 
Baudin, whom we daily expected to meet, according to what he had 
said at Port Jackson. Had the consequences affected ourselves alone, 
the time of our departure was so near that I should have been glad 
to have kept Woga ; for he was a sprightly lad, whom our treat- 
ment would soon have reconciled, and in any future intercourse 
with his countrymen, as also in furnishing information upon many 
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February. 
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