Then Niblett and Wall departed, but on the last day of the year relief came to the remaining two.
Some natives suddenly brought Carron a dirty note, to say that help was coming, and he saw by their gestures that there was a vessel in the bay.
He scribbled a note in reply, but they refused to take it, and began to crowd into the camp and handle their weapons.

They were not going to be baulked of their prey.

At the very moment when they were poising their spears, the relief party arrived.

Four brave men -- Captain Dobson of the Ariel, Dr.Vallack, Barrett a sailor, and the eager Jacky-Jacky -- had forced their way through mangroves and hostile threatening natives to snatch them from their doom.
Nothing could be carried away but the two famished men, and they were helped down to the boat without coming into active hostilities.

Thus ended the most disastrous expedition in Australian annals.