There were three men who might be still alive at Shelburne Bay, and eight more starving at Weymouth Bay.
Kennedy was dead; their duty, and urgent duty it was, lay with the living.

At once the schooner commenced to beat down the coast, and at Shelburne Bay they landed but failed to find the camp.

But they seized a native canoe which bore sufficient evidence that the men had been murdered.

Clearly time must not be wasted in inflicting punishment; according to Jacky's account, the men at Weymouth Bay were absolutely starving, if they had not already succumbed to famine.
After their leader had left Weymouth, Carron had shifted the camp on to the nearest hill, as it was more open and less exposed to the treacherous attacks of the natives.

A flagstaff was erected on the crest, in view of the Bay.