Their tools were taken away, but some provisions which they had with them at the time of the murder, and their cloaths, were left untouched.

In addition to this misfortune, two more convicts, who were peaceably engaged in picking of greens, on a spot very remote from that where their comrades suffered, were unawares attacked by a party of Indians, and before they could effect their escape, one of them was pierced by a spear in the hip, after which they knocked him down, and plundered his cloaths.

The poor wretch, though dreadfully wounded, made shift to crawl off, but his companion was carried away by these barbarians, and his fate doubtful, until a soldier, a few days afterwards, picked up his jacket and hat in a native's hut, the latter pierced through by a spear.

We have found that these spears are not made invariably alike, some of them being barbed like a fish gig, and others simply pointed.

In repairing them they are no less dexterous than in throwing them.