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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Monday 29. 
fpear, but that he would fpeak to him further on this matter 
the next morning.—As his two friends, the Rupacks y then 
wanted to go to reft, he requefted that he might take them 
to ileep in the veflel, as the tent was too fmall for them* 
The fucceeding day the General again mentioned to Mr. 
Sharp his fon’s accident; he informed him, that part of the 
fpear was broken in his foot, and could not be extracted; 
requefting that he would go down to Pelew, to fee if it 
was poflible to draw it out. Mr. Sharp underftanding that 
the young man’s foot was greatly fwelled, and had been fo¬ 
mented, wiflied that the fomentation might be continued, 
as the beft means to abate the fwelling; acquainting the 
General, that having three of their beft men very ill, it 
would be out of his power to accompany him that day to 
Pelew, but as foon as they were better, he would imme¬ 
diately attend him. 
Mr. Sharp enquired of fbme of our people who had been 
in the battle, by what means the youth had received this 
wound; and learnt that the fpear having been flung into 
his foot, by trying to pull it out, they had broken it fhort off; 
that the natives then applied a cord, fattened to the end of 
the fpear which remained in his foot, and had exerted great 
ftrength to extradt it, but the barb of the fpear having been 
forced between the fmall bones, the inflammation and fwel¬ 
ling, which immediately took place, rendered every effort 
ineffedhial; and they would more eafily, in the ftate the 
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