PACIFIC AND BEERING’S STRAIT. gg 
-f, time, chap. 
IdU as if killed ; but, unfortunately rising too soon, the other hlack 
Menalee, shot him. ’ 
Adams was first apprised of his danger by Quintal’s wife, who 
n lurrying through his plantation, asked why he was working at 
that time ? Not understanding the question, but seeing her alarmed 
he followed her, and was almost immediately met by the blacks’ 
whose appearance exciting suspicion, he made his escape into the 
woods. After remaining there three or four hours, Adams, thinking 
all was quiet, stole to his yam-plot for a supply of provisions ; his 
attacked and ^ ^ vigilance of the blacks, who 
„ shoulder, and passing out through his throat. He feU upon 
IS side, and was instantly assailed hy one of them with the butt Ind 
fin*' Tei h t‘ :: '’“1^ of « biok^ 
miid 111 f •’ *'“ “‘‘O' “ fortunately 
e twice. Adams, recovering a little from'the shock of the 
rra^Zr m" ^peed as ^e « 
to eXe off! it o"“'-‘PPO‘‘ >>- P^-uers, who seeing him likely 
exhausTed bf ‘’o -“uld stop. Adams, muc! 
ducted to Ch ‘ accepted their terms, and was con- 
dafom kindly treated. Here this 
It was a dl ^f Englishmen alive out of nine, 
the island and ^ke blacks, who were now masters of 
You! 1 humiliation and retribution to the whites. 
this attack,’ bee'n I“r!ted the women, and had, during 
house. The other two m/o!^ A "°T “'‘O" ^ Cfo'rtian's 
great oppressors of the’hhcks et! ‘*‘"''*3'" been the 
^pported themselves upon the praXl o^f H ““""‘T’ '‘'‘'ote ‘hey 
The party in the vkge Led t TI n T" "'0“- 
week ; at the expiration of which the merof ^^out a 
ebout the right oLhoosing the w^n 2 °h.L L uT 
;>tich ended in MenaleL shoo;“rTimoa ar^s i ! ^ 
ottngs wife, accompanying her song with his flute..^ ‘TL'oa'nL 
