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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Shipwrecked Orphans, by John  Ireland

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-Title: The Shipwrecked Orphans

-       A true narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of John

-       Ireland and William Doyley, who were wrecked in the ship

-       Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas

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-Author: John  Ireland

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-Release Date: July 15, 2018 [EBook #57515]

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-                                  THE

-                          SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS:

-                        A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE

-                        SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS

-                                   OF

-                    JOHN IRELAND AND WILLIAM DOYLEY,

-                        WHO WERE WRECKED IN THE

-                          SHIP CHARLES EATON,

-                    ON AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

-

-                        WRITTEN BY JOHN IRELAND.

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-                               NEW HAVEN.

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-                        PUBLISHED BY S. BABCOCK.

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-                         _TO MY YOUNG READERS._

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- _My dear little Friends_:

-

-For this volume of TELLER’S TALES, I have selected the “SHIPWRECKED

-ORPHANS, a True Narrative of the Sufferings of John Ireland” and a

-little child, named William Doyley, who were unfortunately wrecked in

-the ship Charles Eaton, of London, and lived for several years with the

-natives of the South Sea Islands. The remainder of the passengers and

-crew of this ill-fated ship, were most inhumanly murdered by the savages

-soon after they landed from the wreck. The Narrative was written by one

-of the Orphans, John Ireland, and I give it to you in nearly his own

-words, having made but few alterations in the style in which he tells

-the story of their sufferings.

-

-The people of some of the South Sea Islands, are of a very cruel

-disposition; some of them are cannibals; that is, they eat the flesh of

-those unfortunate persons who may happen to be shipwrecked on their

-Islands, or whom they may take prisoners of war. Others, on the

-contrary, show the greatest kindness to strangers in distress. May the

-time soon come when civilization and the Christian religion shall reach

-all these benighted savages, and teach them to relieve the distressed,

-and to regard the unfortunate as their brethren.

-

-As very little is yet known of the manners and customs of these savage

-tribes, I trust this Narrative will prove both interesting and

-instructive to you all; and I hope you will feel grateful that,—unlike

-the sufferers in this story,—you are surrounded with the comforts of

-life, and have kind parents and friends to watch over you and defend you

-from the dangers and miseries to which these poor Orphans were so long

-exposed.

-

-                                        Your old friend and well-wisher,

-                                        THOMAS TELLER.

-

- _Roseville Hall_, 1844.

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-                                  THE

-                          SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS.

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-Having obtained a situation as assistant in the cabin of the ship

-Charles Eaton, I went on board on the 28th of September, 1833, to assist

-in preparing for the voyage. In the month of December following, I had

-the misfortune to fall into the dock, and not being able to swim,

-narrowly escaped drowning; but through the exertions of Mr. Clare, the

-chief officer of the ship, I was with difficulty saved.

-

-About the 19th of December, we left the dock, with a cargo mostly of

-lead and calico. Our crew consisted of the following persons: Frederick

-Moore, commander; Robert Clare, chief mate; William Major, second mate,

-Messrs. Ching and Perry, midshipmen; Mr. Grant, surgeon: Mr. Williams,

-sail-maker; William Montgomery, steward; Lawrence Constantyne,

-carpenter; Thomas Everitt, boatswain; John Barry, George Lawn, James

-Millar, James Moore, John Carr, Francis Hower, William Jefferies, Samuel

-Baylett, Charles Robertson, and Francis Quill, seamen; and John Sexton,

-and myself, boys. The passengers were, Mr. Armstrong, a native of

-Ireland, and twenty-five male and female children from the Emigration

-Society, with some other steerage passengers.

-

-We had a favorable passage down the river to Gravesend, where we took

-leave of our pilot. A pilot is a person who takes charge of the ships in

-those parts of rivers where they are dangerous. On the 23d of December

-we went on our voyage, passing Deal on the 25th, and arrived at Cowes,

-in the Isle of Wight, on the 27th.

-

-The wind here proved contrary, and we were detained in the harbor until

-the 4th of January, 1834; when, as we were attempting to quit, a

-schooner ran against our vessel and broke off our bowsprit and jib-boom,

-and did other damage to her. The bowsprit is the mast that sticks out in

-front of the ship, and the jib-boom is the top joint of the bowsprit. We

-were therefore obliged to remain there until the repairing of the ship

-was completed; and on the 1st of February left Cowes.

-

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-  _Manner in which the Murray Islanders spearfish—a female assisting._

-  See Page 41.

-]

-

-This accident caused great alarm among the passengers, and more

-especially among the children; indeed it was well that we escaped as we

-did; for even in our own harbors in England, ships are often in great

-danger.

-

-We arrived at Falmouth, near Land’s-end in Cornwall, on the 5th of

-February; and having on the 8th completed our cargo, left England with a

-good wind, and every prospect of a happy voyage.

-

-About the latter end of March, we crossed the Equator; that is, that

-part of the world where the sun is over head and makes no shadow; here

-we went through the usual ceremony of paying tribute to Neptune, to the

-great amusement of the passengers.

-

-We came to the Cape of Good Hope, which is in Africa, on the 1st of May,

-and here we landed several of our passengers; we again set sail, on the

-4th, for Hobart’s Town, in Australia, upwards of twenty thousand miles

-from England, where we arrived on the 16th of June; at this place we

-bade farewell to our young emigrants, and some of the passengers.

-

-On the 8th of July, Captain and Mrs. Doyley, with their two sons, George

-and William, the one about seven or eight years old, and the other about

-fourteen months, came on board as passengers to Sourabaya, intending to

-go from thence to Calcutta, in the East Indies. William, the youngest,

-was my unfortunate companion.

-

-Nothing particular occurred after our leaving Hobart’s Town, till we

-arrived in Sidney, in New South Wales, on the 13th of July. There we

-took in some ballast; that is, heavy articles which are put in the

-bottom of the ship to keep it from turning over with the wind. Our

-boatswain, Mr. Everitt, left us at Sidney, and we took on board in his

-stead Mr. Pigot, and two or three seamen.

-

-We set sail for China on the 29th. An accident happened two or three

-days after leaving the town, which almost caused the death of our

-excellent chief officer, Mr. Clare. An anchor is an iron instrument

-affixed to the end of a long chain, and is used to keep ships in one

-place. It generally hangs at the bows, or fore part of the vessel. The

-men were getting the anchor in its proper place, and Mr. Clare was

-helping them; on a sudden, the wood of the implement which he was using

-broke, and he fell into the sea. We immediately stopped work, and let

-down the boat, and he being an excellent swimmer, was able to keep up

-till the boat reached him. We were at that time going about six miles an

-hour.

-

-We sailed this time with fine weather and good winds, and made the

-entrance to Torres Straits, a narrow passage between two islands in the

-Southern Ocean, on the 14th of August, in the evening.

-

-The wind now began to blow rather hard; so much so that the captain

-thought it necessary to take in some of the sails, and would not attempt

-to go on during the dark. However, at daylight on the next morning we

-again set sail, although the wind was very high, and the water getting

-rough, that is, forming itself into large waves.

-

-The wind continued to increase till about ten o’clock in the morning,

-when the ship struck on a reef called the “Detached Reef.” A reef is a

-number of rocks in the water, at a short distance from the land, over

-which the water just rises, without leaving room enough for a ship to

-pass. The Detached Reef was near the entrance of Torres Straits.

-

-So violent was the shock, that the rudder (that by which a ship is

-guided,) and the keel, (that ledge which runs along the bottom of the

-ship,) were both knocked off, and the captain gave it as his opinion

-that nothing could save the ship.

-

-The chief mate cut away the masts, in order to lighten her; but without

-effect, and we then found that the bottom was broken in, at which place

-the water soon made an entrance, and completely spoiled every thing she

-contained. The high and swelling waves broke completely over her, and in

-a short time the vessel was a perfect wreck.

-

-It was happy for us that the upper part kept together as it did, though

-there was so much danger, from the water rising, that every one expected

-to be washed over. There was plainly to be heard above the din of the

-wind and sea, the horrible groaning of the planks forming the sides of

-the ship, between which the water rushed as through a sieve; and as they

-were one by one broken away from the ill-fated vessel, we felt that we

-were approaching nearer to a death from which we could not hope to

-escape, unless by some merciful interposition of Divine Goodness we

-should be rescued from our watery enemy.

-

-Nor were these thoughts lessened by seeing that ours was not the only

-vessel that had cause to repent the dangerous and almost unknown

-navigation of these straits. About three or four miles from us, to the

-windward, or that side from which the wind blows, we observed a ship

-high and dry, that is, lying out of water, upon the reefs; she had her

-masts standing, her royal yards across, and her sails set; in which

-state she had seemingly been left by her crew.

-

-At the time of the vessel striking, Mrs. Doyley was taking coffee in the

-cabin, and her infant was asleep in one of the berths, little dreaming

-to what future ills his weak and helpless frame was to be exposed.

-

-The distracted mother instantly ran on deck in alarm; and I went into

-the cabin, where I saw the poor child washed out of its berth, and

-crying on the floor. I took him to Mrs. Doyley, who, after that time,

-for the seven long days which were occupied in making the raft, could

-not by any means be persuaded to give up her dear charge.

-

-Upon finding how the ship was situated, Captain Moore ordered the boats

-to be got ready, and furnished with provisions, in order, if possible,

-to save the ship’s company, and reach the island of Timor, regretting

-the stern necessity which urged him to such a step in such a sea.

-

-I once heard Captain Moore declare that he was sorry he had not made use

-of his own chart, instead of one that he bought at Sidney, lest there

-might be any mistake in his own.

-

-We were in possession of four boats; the long boat, two cutters, and a

-small boat called a dingy. Three of the seamen seized one of the

-cutters; and two others got on board of it next morning by swimming

-across the reef at the imminent peril of their lives. A little biscuit,

-a ham, and a keg of water, with some carpenters’ tools, had been placed

-in the boat on its leaving the ship. As soon as the two men had got into

-the boat, they rowed away, and I have never heard any tidings of them

-since.

-

-The persons remaining on board the wreck now held a consultation as to

-what was best to be done in this miserable state of their affairs. There

-were about thirty persons, without sufficient provisions to sustain

-life, much less satisfy the cravings of hunger, for a month, without any

-fresh water, and with no prospect of escape from their forlorn

-condition.

-

-Every care was requisite to prevent the least excess or extravagance. We

-were all put upon allowance of a few damaged pieces of biscuit and two

-wine-glassfuls of water per day, during the seven days of making the

-raft, which was our only hope, and on which we went to work with all the

-energy our desperate state allowed us. A raft is formed of pieces of

-wood roughly fastened together, so that it will float on the water; some

-have been made large enough to hold a hundred and fifty people.

-

-The poop, or raised part of the deck, and one side of the forecastle, or

-front part, being washed away, the small part of it that remained was so

-crowded that we were almost always in one another’s way, although as

-many as could were working at the raft. All the provision that we could

-save, and that was very little, and all the materials wanted for our

-work, were obliged to be put on this small space, for the water rose

-four feet higher than the deck below, and broke away some of the planks

-and timbers every time the tide rose.

-

-As the tide went down, we dived into the body of the ship, to try to get

-some of the ship’s stores, and with the hopeless idea of getting

-something to satisfy our hunger; but the bottom was so washed away that

-the hold could not contain any thing which might have been in it at the

-time of the storm.

-

-Mrs. Doyley and her husband gave every stimulus to exertion; and the

-kind manner in which they requested us to make use of any of their

-clothes, part of which were the only ones saved, I shall ever remember

-with gratitude.

-

-We managed, however, to distil a small quantity of water, of which a

-cask and a few bottles were saved for the raft, by boiling it in the

-ship’s coppers, and leading the steam by means of a pipe, through the

-quarter galley cistern, and catching the water thus made in a cask. The

-supply of this valuable article thus procured, small as it was, we found

-to be one of our greatest helps during our stay upon the wreck.

-

-The raft was completed, as well as the difficulties that we had to

-overcome would permit, in seven days; and the water, with a cask of pork

-and some biscuit, being put upon it, we all followed; but it was not

-sufficiently buoyant for all; that is, it was not light enough to keep

-us up; so the greater part of us returned to the wreck, leaving upon the

-raft, the captain, Mr. Moore; the surgeon, Mr. Grant; Captain and Mrs.

-Doyley, and their two children; their black nurse, a native of India;

-and Mr. Armstrong, with two seamen, named Lowine and Berry; who

-determined to remain on it all night.

-

-In the morning, however, we found the rope by which the raft had been

-made fast to the stern or back part of the vessel was cut, and we could

-see nothing of our late companions.

-

-It is probable that the uncomfortable situation in which they were

-placed, up to their waists in water, induced Captain Moore to cut the

-rope, and trust to the wind and sea to carry them to a place of safety.

-The gale had abated, and the sea lulled, during the time we were making

-the raft.

-

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-  _The unhappy crew got on the raft, cut the rope and bade adieu to the

-    wreck of the Charles Eaton._

-  See page 17.

-]

-

-Those who had returned on board set to work to make another raft of the

-ship’s topmasts, lashed or tightly tied together with rope. A topmast is

-the top joint of a mast. We also made a sail of some of the cloth of the

-ship’s cargo.

-

-We worked with the greatest diligence, but did not complete it for about

-a week. We then got upon it, with all the food we could get, which was

-only a few pieces of damaged biscuit; we cut the rope, and bade adieu to

-the wreck of the Charles Eaton.

-

-What our feelings were at that time, I can scarcely describe. The fear

-that the adventure we had undertaken would not turn out to advantage;

-the certainty of death if we remained; the hope of again reaching our

-native country, were each brought in turn to mind, and acting upon our

-already half-starved condition, made us almost incapable of using the

-little strength of which we had not been deprived, and we took our

-places on the raft in a silence which showed the height of our despair.

-

-The vessel that we saw with her masts standing, was too far off to

-windward for us to reach; I do not think a boat could have been rowed up

-to her, against the wind and tide, which were both against us, and the

-current running very strong, so we gave up the idea as hopeless.

-

-As soon as we had cast off, we set our sail, and steered along with the

-wind; but our raft was so heavy and deep that the progress we made was

-very slow. We drifted, rather than sailed, and that at a rate of not

-more than a mile or a mile and a half an hour.

-

-We came to a reef, upon which we stayed all night; the next morning we

-again set sail on our perilous voyage before the wind, but saw no more

-reefs. We were two more days and nights upon the raft, up to our waists

-in water, and with a very small allowance of food. This was soon all

-eaten. We then passed an island, and saw several more ahead.

-

-Soon after we had passed the first island, we saw a canoe paddling

-towards us, containing ten or twelve native Indians. A canoe is a rude

-kind of Indian boat. As they came towards us, they extended their arms,

-which we supposed meant that they were unarmed, and wished to be

-friendly.

-

-On their reaching the raft, several of them got upon it, and were gently

-put back by Mr. Clare; he at the same time saying that he thought from

-their manners that they were not to be trusted. They were very stout

-men, and quite naked.

-

-An event happened, which, at another time, would have afforded much

-amusement, but now, was a serious loss. One of the Indians, attracted no

-doubt by a piece of white cloth that was hanging to the top of our mast,

-climbed up it; when the desired cloth was within his reach, the mast

-broke, and he was thrown into the sea, without receiving any injury.

-

-We gave the natives a looking glass and a piece of red cloth, with which

-they appeared very much pleased, and began to make signs to us to get

-into their canoe. We at first hesitated to do so, until Mr. Ching, the

-midshipman, said he would go; as he thought by that means to get sooner

-to England; at any rate, he said, he could not be worse off.

-

-Upon his going into the canoe, we all agreed to go too, and left the

-raft; on which the Indians commenced a strict search for iron and tools;

-but could find nothing but a few old hoops. These they collected and put

-into the canoe.

-

-It was about four in the afternoon when we left the raft; and after

-passing three islands on our right, and one on our left, we landed on an

-island which I afterwards found the natives called Boydan. We could

-plainly see the main land, about fourteen or fifteen miles distant. The

-island was very small.

-

-As soon as we landed, we made signs that we were hungry. The natives

-went with us round the island in search of food and water. We were

-unsuccessful; not having found so much as a drop of water. When we

-returned to the place where we landed, hunger and fatigue had so

-completely exhausted us that we could scarcely walk.

-

-The Indians now began to show signs of their ferocious disposition. They

-stood around us, grinning and yelling in a most hideous manner, as

-though delighting in the success of their schemes, and feeling fresh

-delight at our showing how great was our increasing pain.

-

-Mr. Clare now said we had better prepare for the worst; indeed it was

-very plain that the Indians were only watching an opportunity to kill

-us. He read some prayers from a book which he had brought from the

-wreck; and we all most heartily joined with him in supplication. We felt

-that probably it would be our last and only opportunity while here on

-earth.

-

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-  _The savages of Boydan treacherously murdering the crew of the Charles

-    Eaton while they are sleeping._

-  See page 24.

-]

-

-How true is the admonition which warns us that “in the midst of life we

-are in death.” But little did the wanderers who set out in the frail

-vessel, in all the gaiety of health and strength, imagine what was to be

-their melancholy fate, what would be their sufferings, or what the

-horrible termination of their existence.

-

-After having spent some time in prayer, we threw ourselves on the

-ground, in expectation of being killed. Although it will readily be

-imagined we were little in heart disposed to slumber, yet such was the

-state to which we were reduced, that most of us fell almost immediately

-into a sound sleep. The natives, seeing us lying down, appeared anxious

-that we should go to sleep; which they signified to us by putting their

-head on one shoulder, and closing their eyes.

-

-I felt quite sure, from one thing, that mischief was intended. I saw one

-of the natives advance from a canoe in a strange manner; stealing

-cautiously along with a club in his hand, hid as he thought from our

-sight, behind his back, and which he dropped upon the beach. I told this

-to the seaman, Carr, who was lying next to me; but he, being very

-sleepy, seem to take no notice of it, and soon after was in a deep

-sleep. Not long after this, I observed with dread, that as the people

-fell asleep, a native placed himself between every two of us; yet I was

-so overcome with weariness and weakness, I fell asleep too. This I have

-no doubt, was for the more easy execution of the horrid purpose they

-intended, that of murdering us, without giving us a chance for escape or

-defence. It was utterly out of our power to resist; as we had not so

-much as a staff or stick to defend ourselves with; and our exhaustion

-was too great to allow us to quit the place where we then were.

-

-About as near as I can guess, an hour after I had been asleep, I was

-awoke by a terrible shouting and noise. I instantly arose, and on

-looking round, I saw the natives killing my companions by dashing out

-their brains with clubs. The first that was killed was Mr. Ching, and

-after him his companion, Mr. Perry; the next victim was Mr. Major, the

-second officer.

-

-The confusion now became terrible, and my agitation at beholding the

-horrid scene was so great that do I not distinctly remember what passed

-after this. The last person that I recollect seeing alive was Mr. Clare;

-who in an attempt to escape, was overtaken and immediately murdered by a

-blow on the head.

-

-Myself and John Sexton were now the only two remaining alive. An Indian

-came to me with a carving knife in his hand, which I could see belonged

-to the cabin, and recollected its being put on the first raft. He seized

-me, and tried to cut my throat; but I grasped the blade of the knife in

-my right hand, and held it fast. I struggled hard for my life. He at

-last threw me down, and placing his knee upon my breast, tried to wrench

-the knife out of my hand; but I still kept it, though one of my fingers

-was cut to the bone. I at last succeeded in getting upon him, and then I

-let go my hold, and ran into the sea.

-

-I swam out a little way; but the only chance for my life being to return

-to shore, I landed again, expecting to be killed on the spot. The same

-Indian then came towards me in a furious manner, and shot an arrow at

-me, which struck me in my right breast. On a sudden, however, he, very

-much to my surprise, became quite calm, and led, or rather dragged me to

-a little distance, and offered me some fish. This, hungry as I was, I

-was afraid to eat lest it should be poisoned.

-

-During my stay with these people, I have frequently seen them fly into a

-violent rage, and recover themselves in a moment, becoming quite calm,

-as was the case with the man who had tried to take my life.

-

-Whilst struggling with the Indian, I saw Sexton, who was held by

-another, bite a piece out of his arm. After that, I knew nothing of him,

-until I found that his life was spared in a manner something similar to

-my own.

-

-Not very far off, the other savages were dancing round a large fire,

-before which they had placed in a row, the heads of our unfortunate

-companions, whose bodies, after being stripped of their clothes, were

-left on the beach, and I should think the tide soon washed them away,

-for I never saw them afterwards. From these heads, I saw the savages,

-every now and then, cut pieces of flesh from the cheeks, and pluck out

-the eyes, and eat them, shouting most hideously. This, I afterwards

-learned, it was the custom of these islanders to do with their

-prisoners; they think that it will give them courage, and excite them to

-revenge themselves upon their enemies.

-

-Sexton and myself were taken up to the fire, where some of the natives

-sat like tailors, dividing the clothes and other articles which they had

-taken from the bodies of the persons killed. We were given into the care

-of two of the natives, who covered us with a sort of mat, that formed

-the sail of the canoe. My wounds, which were still bleeding very much,

-they did not pay the least attention to.

-

-[Illustration:

-

-  _Horrible and cruel ceremony of the Boydan Islanders._

-  See Page 30.

-]

-

-It is impossible for me to describe our feelings during this dreadful

-night. We fully expected, every moment, to share the fate of those whom

-we had so lately seen cruelly murdered. We prayed together for some

-time, and after each promising to call on the other’s relations, should

-either ever escape, we took leave of each other, giving ourselves up for

-lost.

-

-At length the morning came; and the Indians, after having collected all

-the heads, took us with them in their canoes to another island, which

-they called Pullan, where the women lived. On landing, I saw Captain

-Doyley’s two children, and a Newfoundland dog, called Portland, which

-belonged to the ship.

-

-The Indians took us to some open huts which they had in the island, and

-placed us before a fire; I saw there the gown worn by Mrs. Doyley at the

-time she left the wreck, the steward’s watch and white hat, and several

-other articles of clothing, which belonged to those of the crew who left

-the ship in the first raft.

-

-Near the huts a pole was stuck in the ground, around which were hung the

-heads of our unfortunate companions. Among them I plainly recognized

-Mrs. Doyley’s, for they had left part of the hair on it; and I knew

-Captain Moore’s by the face.

-

-Every morning about sunrise, and every evening at sunset, one of the

-natives went close to the pole, and blew seven or eight times through a

-large shell; which made a noise somewhat like blowing through a cow’s

-horn; at the same time looking up steadfastly at the heads.

-

-After this, the other people decked themselves with the green branches

-of trees, and some painted or rather rubbed their bodies over with a

-kind of ochre, of a red color and white, and came to the pole with great

-parade, holding their clubs and spears. Then they made a sort of

-corrobory, or dance; but I could not trace any signs of religion in

-these ceremonies, nor detect any thing like reverence paid to the pole.

-

-I asked George Doyley what had become of his father and mother? He told

-me that they were both killed by the blacks, as well as all those who

-went away from the ship in the first raft, excepting himself and his

-little brother.

-

-The little fellow gave a very distinct account of the dreadful

-transaction. He said he was so frightened when he saw his father killed

-by a blow on the head from a club, that he hardly knew what he did; but

-when his mother was killed in the same way, he thought they would kill

-him and his little brother too, and then he hoped they should all go to

-heaven together. I then told him that all the crew, except myself and

-Sexton, were murdered.

-

-After we had been on the island a few days, a vessel came in sight, and

-I did all I could to induce the natives to take us to it; but they would

-not part with us. Seven days afterwards, two more ships, in company,

-came close to the shore. The natives seemed very much frightened at

-this, and were in the utmost confusion; they took us, and all the

-skulls, with the dog, and hid us among the bushes until the ships were

-gone.

-

-We were very scantily supplied with provisions during our stay on the

-island. When the natives had been unsuccessful in fishing, they would

-eat it all themselves; and at other times, when they caught a good

-supply, they gave us the entrails and heads. This, with a sort of wild

-plum, and now and then a piece of cocoa-nut, which we got without their

-knowledge, was our only food.

-

-We were sometimes so hungry as to be glad to eat the grass. Through

-doing this, I have often been attacked with such violent pains in the

-stomach, as made me unable to walk upright.

-

-Little William Doyley was very ill-used during our stay here; he cried

-very much after his mother; and at times the natives, both men and

-women, would tie him up to a tree, and beat him with bamboos; on my

-asking them to leave off, as well as I could by signs, they would shoot

-at me with their bows and arrows. On one occasion, when the women were

-beating him, I went and released him, and very nearly lost my life, for

-an arrow was shot within an inch of my head. They sometimes tied him up

-and left him several hours.

-

-Sexton and myself were chiefly employed in climbing trees, and breaking

-up fire-wood to cook the fish with; when they thought we had not enough,

-they would beat us with their hands, and sometimes with the wood.

-

-They would at times take us with them in their canoes, to catch fish,

-which they did by spearing, and with lines and hooks. Their lines were

-made of the fibres of the outside shell or husk of the cocoa-nuts; and

-the hooks were neatly made of tortoise shell.

-

-The number of Indians on this island amounted to about sixty. They were

-merely residing on the island during the fishing season; for their home,

-as I afterward found out, was a great distance off.

-

-After remaining here, as near as I can recollect, three months, (for I

-had almost lost all remembrance of dates) the Indians separated. One

-party took me and William Doyley with them in a canoe; and George Doyley

-and Sexton stayed with the other party.

-

-The party that took me along with them, set sail early in the morning,

-and about the middle of the day reached another small island to the

-northward, where we stayed a day and a night; it had a sandy beach. The

-next morning we left this island and went to another, which was very

-flat, and covered with low bushes; here we stayed a fortnight. We then

-sailed northward, stopping at other islands, as long as we could get

-food for the party; this food consisted of fish and wild fruits; our

-drink was water.

-

-We came to one island where we stayed about a month, and from thence

-went to another, which the natives called Aroob, but which I afterwards

-learned was Darnley’s Island. This place I have very good reason to

-recollect; it was here that we were first treated with some kindness by

-the natives. After staying here about a fortnight, we again embarked,

-returning by the way we had come, to an island called by the natives

-Sirreb, situated near to Aureed.

-

-Poor little William seemed to wish to stop on any of the islands where

-we landed; and cried for a long time after being on board the canoe, to

-return to them.

-

-After remaining on this island rather more than a week, a canoe, with

-some of the natives of Murray’s Island, came there. They bought us of

-our captors for two bunches of bananas. We did not leave the island for

-three days after we were bought; but in that time went in the canoe with

-our new masters, who treated us very kindly. I was pleased to find that

-poor little William began to become more cheerful.

-

-We returned by way of Darnley’s Island, stayed there a few days, and

-then went to Murray’s Island, where we afterwards lived until the period

-of our release by Captain Lewis, in the Isabella.

-

-Upon our first landing on Murray’s Island, the natives flocked around

-us, wondering who we were. They began asking those who had brought us a

-great many questions, and speaking to us in a language very nearly like

-that of the other natives, and which I was just beginning to understand.

-Some of the children were very much frightened at us, and ran away as

-soon as they saw us.

-

-I soon learned that the name of the person who bought me was Dupper; and

-little William was given into the care of a native called Oby, who lived

-near Dupper’s hut. This man soon got very fond of the little boy, as the

-child also became of him; indeed he seemed here to have quite forgotten

-his mother and father.

-

-My name among these people, was Waki, and that of William, was Uass. I

-lived in the same hut with Dupper and his family, consisting of himself,

-his wife Panney, three sons, to all appearance young men, and two

-daughters, who were called Yope and Sarki.

-

-In this place I was made as comfortable as I could expect, under the

-circumstances in which I was placed; my wounds had continued open during

-my wanderings, but they now began to heal, and my appearance soon

-altered for the better. I had now gone through all that could be called

-suffering; but still I constantly wished that some European vessel would

-touch at that shore, and take me once more to see my friends and

-country.

-

-My new master (I should have called him father, for he behaved to me as

-kindly as he did to his sons,) gave me a canoe, about sixty feet long,

-which he purchased at New Guinea, (the island that forms one side of the

-straits, Australasia being the other,) for a large tomahawk and a bow

-and arrow. He also gave me a piece of ground, on which he taught me to

-grow yams, bananas, and cocoa-nuts. When we were not otherwise engaged,

-he taught me to shoot with the bow and arrow, and to spear fish.

-

-Little William soon began to speak their language; and I also learned so

-much of it as to be able to converse in it with great ease; having no

-other than natives to speak to, it is more than probable that as I

-learned their language, I should have forgotten that of my native

-country.

-

-Although William was in general more cheerful, he would now and then

-appear very uneasy. On these occasions, I used to ask Dupper to allow me

-to sleep along with the child. This made him much more happy. As soon as

-he could speak their language pretty freely, he would go down to the

-beach with the other children of the island; and the effect of the sun

-on his skin became very apparent. In a few months he could not be

-distinguished by his color from the other children; his hair being the

-only thing by which he could be known at a distance, from its light

-color.

-

-[Illustration:

-

-  _The kind Murray Islander teaching John Ireland the use of the Bow and

-    Arrow._

-  See page 36.

-]

-

-Murray’s Island is about two miles across, and contains about seven or

-eight hundred people. During my stay there, I never perceived any person

-who was in any manner above the rest of the natives, as regarded being a

-king, or chief, or any thing of that kind; but the whole of the

-inhabitants seem entirely independent of each other.

-

-The houses or huts of the natives are something in the form of a

-bee-hive, with a hole in the side, even with the ground, and about two

-feet and a half in height, which serves for an entrance. When you go in,

-you must creep upon your hands and knees. They are made by placing a

-pole upright in the ground, and putting stakes round it in a circle at

-equal distances: these are then all bent inwards, and fastened together

-near the top of the pole, to which they are firmly bound.

-

-The outside is then covered with dried banana leaves, which are very

-large. The entrance is merely a place in the side left uncovered. The

-pole, or supporter, is generally ornamented with shells; and at the top

-of it, which sticks out above the rest of the hut, they mostly fasten

-the largest one they can find. Some of the huts have a quantity of

-skulls arranged round the inside.

-

-Their canoes, or boats, are very large, mostly about fifty or sixty feet

-long, and some even larger than that. Two masts, opposite to each other,

-with a sail hanging between them, are placed nearly in the centre, but

-more towards the head of the canoe. The sail is made of plaited grass.

-When going with a side wind, they put one of the masts backwards, so

-that the sail stands slantingly. They use paddles of almost every shape;

-but the most general is merely a piece of wood cut flat, and broadest at

-the end which touches the water.

-

-They are expert in the use of the bow, which they call sireck; they make

-them of split bamboo; and they are so powerful that persons not

-accustomed to using the bow, would scarcely be able to bend them. Their

-arrows are pieces of wood made heavy at one end by a piece of stone or

-shell, sharpened at the end.

-

-Their clubs are made of a hard black wood; the handle is made small, and

-has a knob at the end to prevent its slipping out of the hand.

-

-They are very fond of all sorts of European articles; especially beads,

-glass, red cloth, bottles, and particularly of iron, which they call

-‘torre.’ When they see a ship, they say directly, “We will get some

-torre.” They think iron is found in the white men’s country in large

-rocks; and that we merely have to break pieces off as we want them.

-

-Of all things, they were most inquisitive about fire-arms, which they

-call by the same name as they do their bows. Dupper told me that some of

-their people had been killed by them, and they never could see what

-struck them. But I could not explain to him the way that a gun was made,

-for I scarcely knew myself; all I could tell him I did, but this only

-made him the more curious.

-

-Their usual way of catching fish is by spearing; but they also take the

-small ones with a kind of net, something like a sieve. One party

-disturbs the water, by beating it with long bamboo sticks, and so drive

-the fish towards the other, who then spear or net them. Lobsters are

-caught in the following manner: a party will get on a sandbank at night,

-some of them holding a bunch of lighted cocoa-nut leaves above their

-heads; the lobsters, seeing the light, leave their holes, and are then

-speared by the others.

-

-Turtles abound on the islands, and are caught by the natives very

-dexterously. When they see them asleep on the water, a party of seven or

-eight go in a canoe, four of the party paddling very slowly and silently

-towards them, the others squatting on the fore part of the canoe, with a

-rope fastened to their arms, and only their heads above the side of the

-canoe. Upon getting near enough, the parties in the canoe suddenly leap

-out, and catch the turtle by the fins; by which they are then hauled

-into the boat. I have seen three caught at one time in this manner.

-

-After I had resided some months on this island, a native died in one of

-the huts near Dupper’s. Upon his telling me of the event, he said he was

-certain something very dreadful would happen soon. This remark of

-Dupper’s startled me; for it was the first death I had known on the

-island, and I could not help thinking of the fate of the crew of the

-Charles Eaton. An idea once or twice entered my mind that harm was

-intended to me on account of the death of this man; but Dupper treated

-me just the same as usual. Soon after sunset I went to rest, still

-feeling very uneasy. I had not lain very long, when I heard a noise, as

-of a person rattling shells, and breathing very hard.

-

-Dupper uttered a short sentence in a language which I did not

-understand, and quite different from that of Murray’s Island, and then

-himself and all that were in the hut, hid their faces in the sand. I

-asked Dupper what the noise was; he told me, the spirit of the dead man.

-

-[Illustration:

-

-  _John Ireland sees the extraordinary apparitions which cause such

-    superstitious terrors among the Murray Islanders._

-  See page 45.

-]

-

-The next day, I and some of the natives, with little William, were

-sitting under a bamboo fence, close to the huts, when I heard the same

-noise a short distance off. On looking among the bushes, I saw two

-figures, the one red and the other white, with what appeared to be a fan

-over each of their heads. They began throwing stones at us; and the

-natives, who were about twenty in number, instead of getting up and

-driving them away, sat still, and seemed to be totally unnerved. The

-figures were very short, not larger than children fourteen years of age.

-I was told that they were the spirits of their departed friends.

-

-I have since taken a great deal of trouble to ascertain what these

-figures were; for they made me very uneasy. I took particular notice of

-them at the time, and have searched through all the huts; but never

-could discover any traces of dresses similar to those worn by the

-figures.

-

-The club is their principal weapon: with it they endeavor to strike the

-head; and one blow is generally fatal. Their spears, which they throw

-with great accuracy, are made of bamboo, with points made of sharpened

-shells. They also use them in their hand with great dexterity.

-

-Their bows are very dangerous instruments of warfare; as they sometimes

-poison their arrows. Being naked, they often get a slight scratch from

-one of these, and as they have no remedy for the poison, they die a

-painful and lingering death.

-

-I was one afternoon sitting upon one of the hills in the island, when I

-saw a ship coming round a point of the island. My thoughts now turned

-upon the possibility of reaching this vessel, which approached nearer

-and nearer, and appeared as if intending to stop at the island. There

-was a merry-making in the village on that day: but my desire to leave

-the savage life, prevented me from taking part in it as usual; in fact,

-I wanted to draw the attention of those on board to myself before the

-natives should see her; but could not tell how to do so, the ship being

-so far off.

-

-I did not attain my object, notwithstanding all my endeavors. As soon as

-the ship was observed, Dupper, as he usually did when a vessel came in

-sight, painted my body black, with a streak of red on the bridge of my

-nose, extending along my forehead, over each of my eye-brows. My ears

-having been pierced on my arrival at Murray’s Island, his wife and

-daughters hung tassels, made of plaited grass, to them. They also put

-ornaments round my neck, body, arms, wrists, and ancles.

-

-When the ship came near enough to us for their glasses to make

-observations, the natives broke branches off the trees, and waved them.

-I did the same myself, and, to my unspeakable joy, saw her come near to

-the shore and drop her anchor. I then thought my deliverance certain;

-but was sadly disappointed that no boat came off to the shore. I went

-down to the beach along with Dupper and William, and some of the

-natives, but still no boat appeared, and I waited till the night set in.

-

-Next morning, soon after sunrise, several canoes went away to the ship,

-Dupper and myself being in one of them; William was left on the island.

-We were in the third or fourth that got along-side and we dropped

-directly under the stern.

-

-A rope was thrown from the vessel into our canoe, and I caught hold of

-it, and tried to get on board by it. But I had sprained my wrist, by a

-fall, a day or two before, and waving the branch had made it exceedingly

-painful, so that I could not climb. One of the crew held out a roll of

-tobacco to me, but I could not reach it; so I asked him to lower the

-boat for me to get in.

-

-The captain and officers were at that time bartering with the natives

-for curiosities and tortoise shell; they had one of the cutters lowered,

-but put their pistols and naked cutlasses into it. When the natives saw

-that, they thought mischief was intended to me and to themselves; they

-immediately let go the rope, and paddled towards the shore. I stood up

-in the canoe; but Dupper took hold of me and laid me down in the middle

-of it. The boat rowed a little way after us and then returned to the

-vessel.

-

-A few hours afterwards, the boat came close to the beach, with, I

-believe, the captain on board, to shoot birds. One of the natives took

-little William on his shoulders, and went down to the beach, he walked

-towards the boat, and beckoned to the crew to come and take him.

-

-I had often mentioned to the natives that the white people would give

-them axes, and bottles, and iron, for the little boy; I told them his

-relations were rich, and would be glad to give them a great deal if they

-would let them have him back.

-

-[Illustration:

-

-  _The kind Murray Islander surprised and delighted at perceiving iron

-    can be bent by fire._

-  See page 51.

-]

-

-The captain made signs for the natives to go nearer to the boat; for he

-stopped at some distance; but neither party would approach the other,

-and the boat soon after returned to the vessel. I was kept among the

-bushes all this time, by Dupper and his sons: but I could plainly see

-every thing that took place. The ship sailed next morning, and we were

-both left on the island. All my hopes of deliverance by means of this

-vessel, were thus put an end to.

-

-This vessel’s sailing without me, made such an impression upon my mind,

-that for three or four days I could eat no food, and at length became

-extremely ill. I think at times I was light-headed, for I did not know

-what I was doing. When I got better, which was in about a week, the idea

-that I should end my days among the savages settled upon me, and I

-became quite melancholy.

-

-My health after this began visibly to decline; and it grieved me to see

-William was also getting thin and sickly; for I had no remedy in case of

-illness. Nor did I ever see the natives make use of any thing either to

-prevent or cure diseases to which they are subject.

-

-One morning, Dupper was trying to straighten a piece of an iron bolt,

-and was heating it very hard with a large piece of stone, without being

-able to make any impression upon it. I told him to make a large fire,

-and put the iron into it, which would soften it. He did so, and his

-astonishment was very great when he found it answer the purpose.

-

-He was very much pleased with me for this discovery, and often told the

-other natives of it. Almost all of them had a piece of iron, obtained

-from the different wrecks which had happened on the island, or by

-trading with the Europeans; and we were after this frequently employed

-in straightening or altering the shape of these iron articles, as it

-might suit the various fancies of their owners.

-

-After we had been about a year on Murray’s Island, Dupper told me that

-the natives intended to go on a trading voyage to Dowder, (this I

-afterwards learned was the name they called New Guinea,) and I was to be

-one of the party.

-

-For this journey, twelve large canoes about sixty feet long, each

-containing from ten to sixteen persons, men, and women, and children,

-were prepared. As many shells as the natives could collect were put into

-the canoes, and we set sail. The natives of New Guinea wear these shells

-for ornaments; and in return for them, the Murray Islanders get canoes,

-bows and arrows and feathers.

-

-When we came to Darnley’s Island, Dupper left me in the charge of a

-native of that place, named Agge, telling me he was afraid that the New

-Guinea people would steal or murder me. The party did not stay long on

-this island, for the next morning they left me, not expecting to see

-them again for a month.

-

-How great was my surprise, when on the following evening, Dupper

-returned to the island where he had left me. I asked him whether he had

-changed all his shells so quickly, or whether any thing serious had

-happened, that he had come back so soon.

-

-He told me that they stopped at an island called Jarmuth, to pass the

-night, and that a quarrel ensued between one of the natives of that

-island, and a Murray Islander, named Newboo, and Dupper’s two nephews,

-about a pipe of tobacco. Another of the natives of Jarmuth had attempted

-to take from one of the Murray Islanders his moco, an ornament worn

-round the calf of the leg, made of the bark of bamboo.

-

-These outrages had caused a fight with bows and arrows, in which several

-of the Jarmuth people were wounded, and one of them shot through the

-body; but none of the Murray Islanders were hurt. On this account the

-voyage was not taken, but we all returned to Murray’s Island.

-

-About three days after this, the Jarmuth people sent a message offering

-peace; but it was not accepted, and they were still unreconciled when I

-came away.

-

-The time of our deliverance, however, which we had so long given up as

-hopeless, was now near at hand. The years we had passed among the

-savages had not taken from my memory the scenes of home, and happiness,

-and England; but since the departure of the last vessel that touched at

-the shore of the island, the thoughts of my friends and relations had

-come to my remembrance as forcibly as if it was only the day before that

-had been passed in their company, and in my mind it was but a week since

-events of the most pleasing kind had happened; and I had brooded over

-these reflections till my body had wasted to a mere skeleton, through

-the melancholy exertions of my mind; aided, no doubt, by the sickness

-which neglect, thus involuntarily induced, had attacked my weakened

-frame.

-

-I used to delight to tell William about his father and mother; how they

-left a far off country in a large canoe; and of the storm, when he was

-nearly killed; how his mother kissed and fondled him to her bosom, when

-I brought him to her. Then that he had a brother, who came with us in

-the ship and played with him, till in the storm the ship was wrecked and

-broke to pieces; how we all were nearly starved to death; and at last

-escaped on the rafts; that his father and mother, and nurse, with many

-more men, were killed by the natives of Boydan: and we had left his

-brother there among the savages, and had not seen them since; and of

-Dupper’s buying us, and bringing us to this island, and how kind he was.

-

-These recitals would bring tears into the eyes of my young wondering

-listener, showing that the impression was made upon his mind. How his

-tears pleased me! His simple questions upon these occasions were

-answered with an eagerness which showed with what deepness thought had

-fixed them on my memory. I need not add, how these things made me love

-the infant that God had thus thrown, as I thought, into my charge; nor

-how I resolved to endeavor, as far as my means would enable me, to

-cherish and protect him in his helplessness.

-

-I had asked Dupper to enquire what had become of George Doyley and John

-Sexton, if he should at any time happen to meet with one of the natives

-of Boydan. He could not learn any tidings for a long time; but at length

-he told me that he understood they were both dead.

-

-Some time after this, I heard two of the natives conversing, and one of

-them said that the youngest white boy at Boydan, (this was George

-Doyley,) had got sick and died; and that the other one (John Sexton,)

-had been speared by one of the natives.

-

-One evening, Dupper’s brother was obliged to leave his house to do some

-business, and some of Dupper’s family, with myself, were asked to go

-there to take care of it during his absence. This house was on the

-hills.

-

-The next morning, I saw a vessel come round the point of the island, and

-soon after drop her anchor near the shore. I immediately went down to

-the beach, where I saw several canoes paddling off. I attempted to get

-into one of them, but Dupper would not let me. I tried very hard to

-prevail on him to let me go, but for some time he would not consent. He

-told me to hide myself among the trees on the hills, for he was sure the

-people on board the ship would kill me.

-

-After much persuasion, upon my telling him that I did not want to leave

-him, but only to procure some axes and other articles, he with

-reluctance allowed me to get into his canoe. We then went off to the

-ship. I was fearful lest some misunderstanding should take place, so I

-asked Dupper to request silence until I had spoken with the people in

-the ship. The natives accordingly did not speak.

-

-When we got within a short distance, a person hailed me, and asked what

-ship I came out in. I answered, “In the Charles Eaton.” He then asked me

-whether there were any more white people on the island? I replied, “Only

-a child about four or five years old.” He then told me to come

-along-side, which I did, and was then taken on board.

-

-My agitation was so great, that I could scarcely answer the questions

-which were put to me; and it was some time before I recovered my

-self-possession. Captain Lewis took me down into the cabin, and gave me

-a shirt, a pair of trowsers, and a straw hat. He ordered some bread and

-cheese and beer for me; but the thoughts of again revisiting my home and

-friends prevented me from eating much of it.

-

-He asked me what had become of the remaining passengers and crew. I told

-him, as near as I could, all that had happened; that they were all

-murdered, with the exception of five men who had escaped in a cutter. He

-then told me that his ship had been fitted out in search of us. For this

-kindness on the part of government, I can not enough express my sincere

-thanks, and my sorrow that it should meet with so small a return.

-

-Dupper and several of the natives had come on board, and Captain Lewis

-told me to desire them to bring William. They said he was on the other

-side of the island, (this was the case,) but that they would bring him

-the next day. Captain Lewis then said that he would allow no trading

-till the child was on board. Most of the natives returned to the island

-in the evening; and those that remained, slept on deck, with a sail to

-cover them. Dupper and Oby were allowed to sleep with me.

-

-Next day, the natives made a great many excuses against bringing William

-on board; they said he was crying, and would not leave the women. I told

-them that unless they brought him, they would not be allowed to trade.

-About the middle of the day he was brought. At first, he seemed

-frightened at the strangers, and did not like parting with his old black

-friends; but I did my best to pacify him, and he soon became used to the

-new faces.

-

-One of the sailors made him a frock and trowsers, and another gave him a

-cap; he looked very curious in them, but at first they made him

-uncomfortable. I have the cap now in my possession.

-

-The natives of these islands are much given to pilfering. One of them

-was seen taking a knife, and was immediately sent out of the ship. I saw

-Dupper steal a pair of compasses, but I said nothing about it to any

-one: I did not like to offend him.

-

-[Illustration:

-

-  _The kind Murray Islander taking leave of the Orphans._

-  See page 61.

-]

-

-The next night, Captain Lewis amused the islanders with a display of

-rockets, and firing of great guns, with which they were highly

-delighted.

-

-Before the ship sailed, Dupper went and collected a quantity of

-cocoa-nuts, yams, and tobacco, which he brought on board for me. He then

-asked who was to have the care of my canoe, bow and arrows, and other

-articles? I said, his son Bowdoo; with which he seemed very well

-satisfied.

-

-He seemed to feel pained at parting; he cried, hugged me, and then cried

-again; at last he told me to come back soon, and bring him plenty of

-things, and not to forget ‘torre’. I then bade farewell to the poor old

-man, and the rest of the natives, who patted and fondled William in his

-new dress, and on Tuesday, the 28th of June, at about eight o’clock in

-the morning, we left Murray’s Island.

-

-The Isabella schooner had been fitted out to search the islands for the

-white people who had been shipwrecked in the Charles Eaton, or might be

-left on them from any shipwreck. I went with the vessel to all those

-islands they had not searched before they discovered us; and my speaking

-the language was of great service.

-

-On one of the islands, we found a figure made of tortoise shell, painted

-something like a man’s face, round which were tied forty-five skulls.

-These we took on board. We observed that they were more or less injured.

-Several of them were supposed to have belonged to Europeans, and one to

-a woman.

-

-Our voyage was prosperous, and we arrived at Sidney without any

-accident. Great excitement had been caused in this place by the

-melancholy disappearance of so many persons; and the rumor of our story,

-and of the fate of the Charles Eaton and crew, made William and myself

-objects of great curiosity.

-

-I was taken to the governor of the colony, Sir Richard Bourke; to whom I

-related as much of this narrative as I could recollect. I had forty

-shillings given to me by the captain of the Japan, a whaler that we

-passed on our journey home. This money enabled me to buy some clothes.

-Sir Richard Bourke placed some money in the hands of a person in Sidney,

-to defray my expenses during the time I stayed there; the remainder of

-which sum I have received since my arrival in London.

-

-A lady named Mrs. Slade, whose husband is a government officer in

-Sidney, hearing that the name of one of the boys brought by the Isabella

-was Doyley, made inquiries respecting him, and found that he was the son

-of an old and esteemed friend. She immediately requested permission to

-take charge of poor William; who was accordingly given into her charge.

-

-Our health, which had been improving during the passage home, now began

-to recover quickly. We had every attention paid to us that was possible;

-our cancers were subjected to medical treatment, and in a few weeks I

-was completely cured.

-

-I stayed here five months, hoping to accompany William to England; but a

-boy threw a stone at him, which severely hurt his head, and threw him

-again on a bed of sickness, and deferred his departure. At the time I

-left, he was recovering fast.

-

-Not wishing to be longer dependent on the bounty of any person, and an

-opportunity offering, of a situation on board the Florentia, commanded

-by Captain Deloitte, bound to London, I took my farewell of William and

-my other kind friends, and went on board in the month of February.

-

-We set sail, and experienced a little rough weather on our passage, but

-arrived in London without accident, in August.

-

-I had now been absent from England nearly four years; and it is

-impossible to describe my feelings when again putting my foot upon its

-long-desired ground; none but those similarly situated can understand

-them. All I wish the kind reader to do, is to avoid the savages of

-Boydan, but lend a helping hand to civilize the kind natives of Murray’s

-Island, and the Indians of Torres Straits.

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+Title: The Shipwrecked Orphans
+       A true narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of John
+       Ireland and William Doyley, who were wrecked in the ship
+       Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas
+
+Author: John  Ireland
+
+Release Date: July 15, 2018 [EBook #57515]
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+
+                                  THE
+                          SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS:
+                        A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE
+                        SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS
+                                   OF
+                    JOHN IRELAND AND WILLIAM DOYLEY,
+                        WHO WERE WRECKED IN THE
+                          SHIP CHARLES EATON,
+                    ON AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
+
+                        WRITTEN BY JOHN IRELAND.
+
+                               NEW HAVEN.
+
+                        PUBLISHED BY S. BABCOCK.
+
+
+
+
+                         _TO MY YOUNG READERS._
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ _My dear little Friends_:
+
+For this volume of TELLER’S TALES, I have selected the “SHIPWRECKED
+ORPHANS, a True Narrative of the Sufferings of John Ireland” and a
+little child, named William Doyley, who were unfortunately wrecked in
+the ship Charles Eaton, of London, and lived for several years with the
+natives of the South Sea Islands. The remainder of the passengers and
+crew of this ill-fated ship, were most inhumanly murdered by the savages
+soon after they landed from the wreck. The Narrative was written by one
+of the Orphans, John Ireland, and I give it to you in nearly his own
+words, having made but few alterations in the style in which he tells
+the story of their sufferings.
+
+The people of some of the South Sea Islands, are of a very cruel
+disposition; some of them are cannibals; that is, they eat the flesh of
+those unfortunate persons who may happen to be shipwrecked on their
+Islands, or whom they may take prisoners of war. Others, on the
+contrary, show the greatest kindness to strangers in distress. May the
+time soon come when civilization and the Christian religion shall reach
+all these benighted savages, and teach them to relieve the distressed,
+and to regard the unfortunate as their brethren.
+
+As very little is yet known of the manners and customs of these savage
+tribes, I trust this Narrative will prove both interesting and
+instructive to you all; and I hope you will feel grateful that,—unlike
+the sufferers in this story,—you are surrounded with the comforts of
+life, and have kind parents and friends to watch over you and defend you
+from the dangers and miseries to which these poor Orphans were so long
+exposed.
+
+                                        Your old friend and well-wisher,
+                                        THOMAS TELLER.
+
+ _Roseville Hall_, 1844.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                                  THE
+                          SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Having obtained a situation as assistant in the cabin of the ship
+Charles Eaton, I went on board on the 28th of September, 1833, to assist
+in preparing for the voyage. In the month of December following, I had
+the misfortune to fall into the dock, and not being able to swim,
+narrowly escaped drowning; but through the exertions of Mr. Clare, the
+chief officer of the ship, I was with difficulty saved.
+
+About the 19th of December, we left the dock, with a cargo mostly of
+lead and calico. Our crew consisted of the following persons: Frederick
+Moore, commander; Robert Clare, chief mate; William Major, second mate,
+Messrs. Ching and Perry, midshipmen; Mr. Grant, surgeon: Mr. Williams,
+sail-maker; William Montgomery, steward; Lawrence Constantyne,
+carpenter; Thomas Everitt, boatswain; John Barry, George Lawn, James
+Millar, James Moore, John Carr, Francis Hower, William Jefferies, Samuel
+Baylett, Charles Robertson, and Francis Quill, seamen; and John Sexton,
+and myself, boys. The passengers were, Mr. Armstrong, a native of
+Ireland, and twenty-five male and female children from the Emigration
+Society, with some other steerage passengers.
+
+We had a favorable passage down the river to Gravesend, where we took
+leave of our pilot. A pilot is a person who takes charge of the ships in
+those parts of rivers where they are dangerous. On the 23d of December
+we went on our voyage, passing Deal on the 25th, and arrived at Cowes,
+in the Isle of Wight, on the 27th.
+
+The wind here proved contrary, and we were detained in the harbor until
+the 4th of January, 1834; when, as we were attempting to quit, a
+schooner ran against our vessel and broke off our bowsprit and jib-boom,
+and did other damage to her. The bowsprit is the mast that sticks out in
+front of the ship, and the jib-boom is the top joint of the bowsprit. We
+were therefore obliged to remain there until the repairing of the ship
+was completed; and on the 1st of February left Cowes.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _Manner in which the Murray Islanders spearfish—a female assisting._
+  See Page 41.
+]
+
+This accident caused great alarm among the passengers, and more
+especially among the children; indeed it was well that we escaped as we
+did; for even in our own harbors in England, ships are often in great
+danger.
+
+We arrived at Falmouth, near Land’s-end in Cornwall, on the 5th of
+February; and having on the 8th completed our cargo, left England with a
+good wind, and every prospect of a happy voyage.
+
+About the latter end of March, we crossed the Equator; that is, that
+part of the world where the sun is over head and makes no shadow; here
+we went through the usual ceremony of paying tribute to Neptune, to the
+great amusement of the passengers.
+
+We came to the Cape of Good Hope, which is in Africa, on the 1st of May,
+and here we landed several of our passengers; we again set sail, on the
+4th, for Hobart’s Town, in Australia, upwards of twenty thousand miles
+from England, where we arrived on the 16th of June; at this place we
+bade farewell to our young emigrants, and some of the passengers.
+
+On the 8th of July, Captain and Mrs. Doyley, with their two sons, George
+and William, the one about seven or eight years old, and the other about
+fourteen months, came on board as passengers to Sourabaya, intending to
+go from thence to Calcutta, in the East Indies. William, the youngest,
+was my unfortunate companion.
+
+Nothing particular occurred after our leaving Hobart’s Town, till we
+arrived in Sidney, in New South Wales, on the 13th of July. There we
+took in some ballast; that is, heavy articles which are put in the
+bottom of the ship to keep it from turning over with the wind. Our
+boatswain, Mr. Everitt, left us at Sidney, and we took on board in his
+stead Mr. Pigot, and two or three seamen.
+
+We set sail for China on the 29th. An accident happened two or three
+days after leaving the town, which almost caused the death of our
+excellent chief officer, Mr. Clare. An anchor is an iron instrument
+affixed to the end of a long chain, and is used to keep ships in one
+place. It generally hangs at the bows, or fore part of the vessel. The
+men were getting the anchor in its proper place, and Mr. Clare was
+helping them; on a sudden, the wood of the implement which he was using
+broke, and he fell into the sea. We immediately stopped work, and let
+down the boat, and he being an excellent swimmer, was able to keep up
+till the boat reached him. We were at that time going about six miles an
+hour.
+
+We sailed this time with fine weather and good winds, and made the
+entrance to Torres Straits, a narrow passage between two islands in the
+Southern Ocean, on the 14th of August, in the evening.
+
+The wind now began to blow rather hard; so much so that the captain
+thought it necessary to take in some of the sails, and would not attempt
+to go on during the dark. However, at daylight on the next morning we
+again set sail, although the wind was very high, and the water getting
+rough, that is, forming itself into large waves.
+
+The wind continued to increase till about ten o’clock in the morning,
+when the ship struck on a reef called the “Detached Reef.” A reef is a
+number of rocks in the water, at a short distance from the land, over
+which the water just rises, without leaving room enough for a ship to
+pass. The Detached Reef was near the entrance of Torres Straits.
+
+So violent was the shock, that the rudder (that by which a ship is
+guided,) and the keel, (that ledge which runs along the bottom of the
+ship,) were both knocked off, and the captain gave it as his opinion
+that nothing could save the ship.
+
+The chief mate cut away the masts, in order to lighten her; but without
+effect, and we then found that the bottom was broken in, at which place
+the water soon made an entrance, and completely spoiled every thing she
+contained. The high and swelling waves broke completely over her, and in
+a short time the vessel was a perfect wreck.
+
+It was happy for us that the upper part kept together as it did, though
+there was so much danger, from the water rising, that every one expected
+to be washed over. There was plainly to be heard above the din of the
+wind and sea, the horrible groaning of the planks forming the sides of
+the ship, between which the water rushed as through a sieve; and as they
+were one by one broken away from the ill-fated vessel, we felt that we
+were approaching nearer to a death from which we could not hope to
+escape, unless by some merciful interposition of Divine Goodness we
+should be rescued from our watery enemy.
+
+Nor were these thoughts lessened by seeing that ours was not the only
+vessel that had cause to repent the dangerous and almost unknown
+navigation of these straits. About three or four miles from us, to the
+windward, or that side from which the wind blows, we observed a ship
+high and dry, that is, lying out of water, upon the reefs; she had her
+masts standing, her royal yards across, and her sails set; in which
+state she had seemingly been left by her crew.
+
+At the time of the vessel striking, Mrs. Doyley was taking coffee in the
+cabin, and her infant was asleep in one of the berths, little dreaming
+to what future ills his weak and helpless frame was to be exposed.
+
+The distracted mother instantly ran on deck in alarm; and I went into
+the cabin, where I saw the poor child washed out of its berth, and
+crying on the floor. I took him to Mrs. Doyley, who, after that time,
+for the seven long days which were occupied in making the raft, could
+not by any means be persuaded to give up her dear charge.
+
+Upon finding how the ship was situated, Captain Moore ordered the boats
+to be got ready, and furnished with provisions, in order, if possible,
+to save the ship’s company, and reach the island of Timor, regretting
+the stern necessity which urged him to such a step in such a sea.
+
+I once heard Captain Moore declare that he was sorry he had not made use
+of his own chart, instead of one that he bought at Sidney, lest there
+might be any mistake in his own.
+
+We were in possession of four boats; the long boat, two cutters, and a
+small boat called a dingy. Three of the seamen seized one of the
+cutters; and two others got on board of it next morning by swimming
+across the reef at the imminent peril of their lives. A little biscuit,
+a ham, and a keg of water, with some carpenters’ tools, had been placed
+in the boat on its leaving the ship. As soon as the two men had got into
+the boat, they rowed away, and I have never heard any tidings of them
+since.
+
+The persons remaining on board the wreck now held a consultation as to
+what was best to be done in this miserable state of their affairs. There
+were about thirty persons, without sufficient provisions to sustain
+life, much less satisfy the cravings of hunger, for a month, without any
+fresh water, and with no prospect of escape from their forlorn
+condition.
+
+Every care was requisite to prevent the least excess or extravagance. We
+were all put upon allowance of a few damaged pieces of biscuit and two
+wine-glassfuls of water per day, during the seven days of making the
+raft, which was our only hope, and on which we went to work with all the
+energy our desperate state allowed us. A raft is formed of pieces of
+wood roughly fastened together, so that it will float on the water; some
+have been made large enough to hold a hundred and fifty people.
+
+The poop, or raised part of the deck, and one side of the forecastle, or
+front part, being washed away, the small part of it that remained was so
+crowded that we were almost always in one another’s way, although as
+many as could were working at the raft. All the provision that we could
+save, and that was very little, and all the materials wanted for our
+work, were obliged to be put on this small space, for the water rose
+four feet higher than the deck below, and broke away some of the planks
+and timbers every time the tide rose.
+
+As the tide went down, we dived into the body of the ship, to try to get
+some of the ship’s stores, and with the hopeless idea of getting
+something to satisfy our hunger; but the bottom was so washed away that
+the hold could not contain any thing which might have been in it at the
+time of the storm.
+
+Mrs. Doyley and her husband gave every stimulus to exertion; and the
+kind manner in which they requested us to make use of any of their
+clothes, part of which were the only ones saved, I shall ever remember
+with gratitude.
+
+We managed, however, to distil a small quantity of water, of which a
+cask and a few bottles were saved for the raft, by boiling it in the
+ship’s coppers, and leading the steam by means of a pipe, through the
+quarter galley cistern, and catching the water thus made in a cask. The
+supply of this valuable article thus procured, small as it was, we found
+to be one of our greatest helps during our stay upon the wreck.
+
+The raft was completed, as well as the difficulties that we had to
+overcome would permit, in seven days; and the water, with a cask of pork
+and some biscuit, being put upon it, we all followed; but it was not
+sufficiently buoyant for all; that is, it was not light enough to keep
+us up; so the greater part of us returned to the wreck, leaving upon the
+raft, the captain, Mr. Moore; the surgeon, Mr. Grant; Captain and Mrs.
+Doyley, and their two children; their black nurse, a native of India;
+and Mr. Armstrong, with two seamen, named Lowine and Berry; who
+determined to remain on it all night.
+
+In the morning, however, we found the rope by which the raft had been
+made fast to the stern or back part of the vessel was cut, and we could
+see nothing of our late companions.
+
+It is probable that the uncomfortable situation in which they were
+placed, up to their waists in water, induced Captain Moore to cut the
+rope, and trust to the wind and sea to carry them to a place of safety.
+The gale had abated, and the sea lulled, during the time we were making
+the raft.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _The unhappy crew got on the raft, cut the rope and bade adieu to the
+    wreck of the Charles Eaton._
+  See page 17.
+]
+
+Those who had returned on board set to work to make another raft of the
+ship’s topmasts, lashed or tightly tied together with rope. A topmast is
+the top joint of a mast. We also made a sail of some of the cloth of the
+ship’s cargo.
+
+We worked with the greatest diligence, but did not complete it for about
+a week. We then got upon it, with all the food we could get, which was
+only a few pieces of damaged biscuit; we cut the rope, and bade adieu to
+the wreck of the Charles Eaton.
+
+What our feelings were at that time, I can scarcely describe. The fear
+that the adventure we had undertaken would not turn out to advantage;
+the certainty of death if we remained; the hope of again reaching our
+native country, were each brought in turn to mind, and acting upon our
+already half-starved condition, made us almost incapable of using the
+little strength of which we had not been deprived, and we took our
+places on the raft in a silence which showed the height of our despair.
+
+The vessel that we saw with her masts standing, was too far off to
+windward for us to reach; I do not think a boat could have been rowed up
+to her, against the wind and tide, which were both against us, and the
+current running very strong, so we gave up the idea as hopeless.
+
+As soon as we had cast off, we set our sail, and steered along with the
+wind; but our raft was so heavy and deep that the progress we made was
+very slow. We drifted, rather than sailed, and that at a rate of not
+more than a mile or a mile and a half an hour.
+
+We came to a reef, upon which we stayed all night; the next morning we
+again set sail on our perilous voyage before the wind, but saw no more
+reefs. We were two more days and nights upon the raft, up to our waists
+in water, and with a very small allowance of food. This was soon all
+eaten. We then passed an island, and saw several more ahead.
+
+Soon after we had passed the first island, we saw a canoe paddling
+towards us, containing ten or twelve native Indians. A canoe is a rude
+kind of Indian boat. As they came towards us, they extended their arms,
+which we supposed meant that they were unarmed, and wished to be
+friendly.
+
+On their reaching the raft, several of them got upon it, and were gently
+put back by Mr. Clare; he at the same time saying that he thought from
+their manners that they were not to be trusted. They were very stout
+men, and quite naked.
+
+An event happened, which, at another time, would have afforded much
+amusement, but now, was a serious loss. One of the Indians, attracted no
+doubt by a piece of white cloth that was hanging to the top of our mast,
+climbed up it; when the desired cloth was within his reach, the mast
+broke, and he was thrown into the sea, without receiving any injury.
+
+We gave the natives a looking glass and a piece of red cloth, with which
+they appeared very much pleased, and began to make signs to us to get
+into their canoe. We at first hesitated to do so, until Mr. Ching, the
+midshipman, said he would go; as he thought by that means to get sooner
+to England; at any rate, he said, he could not be worse off.
+
+Upon his going into the canoe, we all agreed to go too, and left the
+raft; on which the Indians commenced a strict search for iron and tools;
+but could find nothing but a few old hoops. These they collected and put
+into the canoe.
+
+It was about four in the afternoon when we left the raft; and after
+passing three islands on our right, and one on our left, we landed on an
+island which I afterwards found the natives called Boydan. We could
+plainly see the main land, about fourteen or fifteen miles distant. The
+island was very small.
+
+As soon as we landed, we made signs that we were hungry. The natives
+went with us round the island in search of food and water. We were
+unsuccessful; not having found so much as a drop of water. When we
+returned to the place where we landed, hunger and fatigue had so
+completely exhausted us that we could scarcely walk.
+
+The Indians now began to show signs of their ferocious disposition. They
+stood around us, grinning and yelling in a most hideous manner, as
+though delighting in the success of their schemes, and feeling fresh
+delight at our showing how great was our increasing pain.
+
+Mr. Clare now said we had better prepare for the worst; indeed it was
+very plain that the Indians were only watching an opportunity to kill
+us. He read some prayers from a book which he had brought from the
+wreck; and we all most heartily joined with him in supplication. We felt
+that probably it would be our last and only opportunity while here on
+earth.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _The savages of Boydan treacherously murdering the crew of the Charles
+    Eaton while they are sleeping._
+  See page 24.
+]
+
+How true is the admonition which warns us that “in the midst of life we
+are in death.” But little did the wanderers who set out in the frail
+vessel, in all the gaiety of health and strength, imagine what was to be
+their melancholy fate, what would be their sufferings, or what the
+horrible termination of their existence.
+
+After having spent some time in prayer, we threw ourselves on the
+ground, in expectation of being killed. Although it will readily be
+imagined we were little in heart disposed to slumber, yet such was the
+state to which we were reduced, that most of us fell almost immediately
+into a sound sleep. The natives, seeing us lying down, appeared anxious
+that we should go to sleep; which they signified to us by putting their
+head on one shoulder, and closing their eyes.
+
+I felt quite sure, from one thing, that mischief was intended. I saw one
+of the natives advance from a canoe in a strange manner; stealing
+cautiously along with a club in his hand, hid as he thought from our
+sight, behind his back, and which he dropped upon the beach. I told this
+to the seaman, Carr, who was lying next to me; but he, being very
+sleepy, seem to take no notice of it, and soon after was in a deep
+sleep. Not long after this, I observed with dread, that as the people
+fell asleep, a native placed himself between every two of us; yet I was
+so overcome with weariness and weakness, I fell asleep too. This I have
+no doubt, was for the more easy execution of the horrid purpose they
+intended, that of murdering us, without giving us a chance for escape or
+defence. It was utterly out of our power to resist; as we had not so
+much as a staff or stick to defend ourselves with; and our exhaustion
+was too great to allow us to quit the place where we then were.
+
+About as near as I can guess, an hour after I had been asleep, I was
+awoke by a terrible shouting and noise. I instantly arose, and on
+looking round, I saw the natives killing my companions by dashing out
+their brains with clubs. The first that was killed was Mr. Ching, and
+after him his companion, Mr. Perry; the next victim was Mr. Major, the
+second officer.
+
+The confusion now became terrible, and my agitation at beholding the
+horrid scene was so great that do I not distinctly remember what passed
+after this. The last person that I recollect seeing alive was Mr. Clare;
+who in an attempt to escape, was overtaken and immediately murdered by a
+blow on the head.
+
+Myself and John Sexton were now the only two remaining alive. An Indian
+came to me with a carving knife in his hand, which I could see belonged
+to the cabin, and recollected its being put on the first raft. He seized
+me, and tried to cut my throat; but I grasped the blade of the knife in
+my right hand, and held it fast. I struggled hard for my life. He at
+last threw me down, and placing his knee upon my breast, tried to wrench
+the knife out of my hand; but I still kept it, though one of my fingers
+was cut to the bone. I at last succeeded in getting upon him, and then I
+let go my hold, and ran into the sea.
+
+I swam out a little way; but the only chance for my life being to return
+to shore, I landed again, expecting to be killed on the spot. The same
+Indian then came towards me in a furious manner, and shot an arrow at
+me, which struck me in my right breast. On a sudden, however, he, very
+much to my surprise, became quite calm, and led, or rather dragged me to
+a little distance, and offered me some fish. This, hungry as I was, I
+was afraid to eat lest it should be poisoned.
+
+During my stay with these people, I have frequently seen them fly into a
+violent rage, and recover themselves in a moment, becoming quite calm,
+as was the case with the man who had tried to take my life.
+
+Whilst struggling with the Indian, I saw Sexton, who was held by
+another, bite a piece out of his arm. After that, I knew nothing of him,
+until I found that his life was spared in a manner something similar to
+my own.
+
+Not very far off, the other savages were dancing round a large fire,
+before which they had placed in a row, the heads of our unfortunate
+companions, whose bodies, after being stripped of their clothes, were
+left on the beach, and I should think the tide soon washed them away,
+for I never saw them afterwards. From these heads, I saw the savages,
+every now and then, cut pieces of flesh from the cheeks, and pluck out
+the eyes, and eat them, shouting most hideously. This, I afterwards
+learned, it was the custom of these islanders to do with their
+prisoners; they think that it will give them courage, and excite them to
+revenge themselves upon their enemies.
+
+Sexton and myself were taken up to the fire, where some of the natives
+sat like tailors, dividing the clothes and other articles which they had
+taken from the bodies of the persons killed. We were given into the care
+of two of the natives, who covered us with a sort of mat, that formed
+the sail of the canoe. My wounds, which were still bleeding very much,
+they did not pay the least attention to.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _Horrible and cruel ceremony of the Boydan Islanders._
+  See Page 30.
+]
+
+It is impossible for me to describe our feelings during this dreadful
+night. We fully expected, every moment, to share the fate of those whom
+we had so lately seen cruelly murdered. We prayed together for some
+time, and after each promising to call on the other’s relations, should
+either ever escape, we took leave of each other, giving ourselves up for
+lost.
+
+At length the morning came; and the Indians, after having collected all
+the heads, took us with them in their canoes to another island, which
+they called Pullan, where the women lived. On landing, I saw Captain
+Doyley’s two children, and a Newfoundland dog, called Portland, which
+belonged to the ship.
+
+The Indians took us to some open huts which they had in the island, and
+placed us before a fire; I saw there the gown worn by Mrs. Doyley at the
+time she left the wreck, the steward’s watch and white hat, and several
+other articles of clothing, which belonged to those of the crew who left
+the ship in the first raft.
+
+Near the huts a pole was stuck in the ground, around which were hung the
+heads of our unfortunate companions. Among them I plainly recognized
+Mrs. Doyley’s, for they had left part of the hair on it; and I knew
+Captain Moore’s by the face.
+
+Every morning about sunrise, and every evening at sunset, one of the
+natives went close to the pole, and blew seven or eight times through a
+large shell; which made a noise somewhat like blowing through a cow’s
+horn; at the same time looking up steadfastly at the heads.
+
+After this, the other people decked themselves with the green branches
+of trees, and some painted or rather rubbed their bodies over with a
+kind of ochre, of a red color and white, and came to the pole with great
+parade, holding their clubs and spears. Then they made a sort of
+corrobory, or dance; but I could not trace any signs of religion in
+these ceremonies, nor detect any thing like reverence paid to the pole.
+
+I asked George Doyley what had become of his father and mother? He told
+me that they were both killed by the blacks, as well as all those who
+went away from the ship in the first raft, excepting himself and his
+little brother.
+
+The little fellow gave a very distinct account of the dreadful
+transaction. He said he was so frightened when he saw his father killed
+by a blow on the head from a club, that he hardly knew what he did; but
+when his mother was killed in the same way, he thought they would kill
+him and his little brother too, and then he hoped they should all go to
+heaven together. I then told him that all the crew, except myself and
+Sexton, were murdered.
+
+After we had been on the island a few days, a vessel came in sight, and
+I did all I could to induce the natives to take us to it; but they would
+not part with us. Seven days afterwards, two more ships, in company,
+came close to the shore. The natives seemed very much frightened at
+this, and were in the utmost confusion; they took us, and all the
+skulls, with the dog, and hid us among the bushes until the ships were
+gone.
+
+We were very scantily supplied with provisions during our stay on the
+island. When the natives had been unsuccessful in fishing, they would
+eat it all themselves; and at other times, when they caught a good
+supply, they gave us the entrails and heads. This, with a sort of wild
+plum, and now and then a piece of cocoa-nut, which we got without their
+knowledge, was our only food.
+
+We were sometimes so hungry as to be glad to eat the grass. Through
+doing this, I have often been attacked with such violent pains in the
+stomach, as made me unable to walk upright.
+
+Little William Doyley was very ill-used during our stay here; he cried
+very much after his mother; and at times the natives, both men and
+women, would tie him up to a tree, and beat him with bamboos; on my
+asking them to leave off, as well as I could by signs, they would shoot
+at me with their bows and arrows. On one occasion, when the women were
+beating him, I went and released him, and very nearly lost my life, for
+an arrow was shot within an inch of my head. They sometimes tied him up
+and left him several hours.
+
+Sexton and myself were chiefly employed in climbing trees, and breaking
+up fire-wood to cook the fish with; when they thought we had not enough,
+they would beat us with their hands, and sometimes with the wood.
+
+They would at times take us with them in their canoes, to catch fish,
+which they did by spearing, and with lines and hooks. Their lines were
+made of the fibres of the outside shell or husk of the cocoa-nuts; and
+the hooks were neatly made of tortoise shell.
+
+The number of Indians on this island amounted to about sixty. They were
+merely residing on the island during the fishing season; for their home,
+as I afterward found out, was a great distance off.
+
+After remaining here, as near as I can recollect, three months, (for I
+had almost lost all remembrance of dates) the Indians separated. One
+party took me and William Doyley with them in a canoe; and George Doyley
+and Sexton stayed with the other party.
+
+The party that took me along with them, set sail early in the morning,
+and about the middle of the day reached another small island to the
+northward, where we stayed a day and a night; it had a sandy beach. The
+next morning we left this island and went to another, which was very
+flat, and covered with low bushes; here we stayed a fortnight. We then
+sailed northward, stopping at other islands, as long as we could get
+food for the party; this food consisted of fish and wild fruits; our
+drink was water.
+
+We came to one island where we stayed about a month, and from thence
+went to another, which the natives called Aroob, but which I afterwards
+learned was Darnley’s Island. This place I have very good reason to
+recollect; it was here that we were first treated with some kindness by
+the natives. After staying here about a fortnight, we again embarked,
+returning by the way we had come, to an island called by the natives
+Sirreb, situated near to Aureed.
+
+Poor little William seemed to wish to stop on any of the islands where
+we landed; and cried for a long time after being on board the canoe, to
+return to them.
+
+After remaining on this island rather more than a week, a canoe, with
+some of the natives of Murray’s Island, came there. They bought us of
+our captors for two bunches of bananas. We did not leave the island for
+three days after we were bought; but in that time went in the canoe with
+our new masters, who treated us very kindly. I was pleased to find that
+poor little William began to become more cheerful.
+
+We returned by way of Darnley’s Island, stayed there a few days, and
+then went to Murray’s Island, where we afterwards lived until the period
+of our release by Captain Lewis, in the Isabella.
+
+Upon our first landing on Murray’s Island, the natives flocked around
+us, wondering who we were. They began asking those who had brought us a
+great many questions, and speaking to us in a language very nearly like
+that of the other natives, and which I was just beginning to understand.
+Some of the children were very much frightened at us, and ran away as
+soon as they saw us.
+
+I soon learned that the name of the person who bought me was Dupper; and
+little William was given into the care of a native called Oby, who lived
+near Dupper’s hut. This man soon got very fond of the little boy, as the
+child also became of him; indeed he seemed here to have quite forgotten
+his mother and father.
+
+My name among these people, was Waki, and that of William, was Uass. I
+lived in the same hut with Dupper and his family, consisting of himself,
+his wife Panney, three sons, to all appearance young men, and two
+daughters, who were called Yope and Sarki.
+
+In this place I was made as comfortable as I could expect, under the
+circumstances in which I was placed; my wounds had continued open during
+my wanderings, but they now began to heal, and my appearance soon
+altered for the better. I had now gone through all that could be called
+suffering; but still I constantly wished that some European vessel would
+touch at that shore, and take me once more to see my friends and
+country.
+
+My new master (I should have called him father, for he behaved to me as
+kindly as he did to his sons,) gave me a canoe, about sixty feet long,
+which he purchased at New Guinea, (the island that forms one side of the
+straits, Australasia being the other,) for a large tomahawk and a bow
+and arrow. He also gave me a piece of ground, on which he taught me to
+grow yams, bananas, and cocoa-nuts. When we were not otherwise engaged,
+he taught me to shoot with the bow and arrow, and to spear fish.
+
+Little William soon began to speak their language; and I also learned so
+much of it as to be able to converse in it with great ease; having no
+other than natives to speak to, it is more than probable that as I
+learned their language, I should have forgotten that of my native
+country.
+
+Although William was in general more cheerful, he would now and then
+appear very uneasy. On these occasions, I used to ask Dupper to allow me
+to sleep along with the child. This made him much more happy. As soon as
+he could speak their language pretty freely, he would go down to the
+beach with the other children of the island; and the effect of the sun
+on his skin became very apparent. In a few months he could not be
+distinguished by his color from the other children; his hair being the
+only thing by which he could be known at a distance, from its light
+color.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _The kind Murray Islander teaching John Ireland the use of the Bow and
+    Arrow._
+  See page 36.
+]
+
+Murray’s Island is about two miles across, and contains about seven or
+eight hundred people. During my stay there, I never perceived any person
+who was in any manner above the rest of the natives, as regarded being a
+king, or chief, or any thing of that kind; but the whole of the
+inhabitants seem entirely independent of each other.
+
+The houses or huts of the natives are something in the form of a
+bee-hive, with a hole in the side, even with the ground, and about two
+feet and a half in height, which serves for an entrance. When you go in,
+you must creep upon your hands and knees. They are made by placing a
+pole upright in the ground, and putting stakes round it in a circle at
+equal distances: these are then all bent inwards, and fastened together
+near the top of the pole, to which they are firmly bound.
+
+The outside is then covered with dried banana leaves, which are very
+large. The entrance is merely a place in the side left uncovered. The
+pole, or supporter, is generally ornamented with shells; and at the top
+of it, which sticks out above the rest of the hut, they mostly fasten
+the largest one they can find. Some of the huts have a quantity of
+skulls arranged round the inside.
+
+Their canoes, or boats, are very large, mostly about fifty or sixty feet
+long, and some even larger than that. Two masts, opposite to each other,
+with a sail hanging between them, are placed nearly in the centre, but
+more towards the head of the canoe. The sail is made of plaited grass.
+When going with a side wind, they put one of the masts backwards, so
+that the sail stands slantingly. They use paddles of almost every shape;
+but the most general is merely a piece of wood cut flat, and broadest at
+the end which touches the water.
+
+They are expert in the use of the bow, which they call sireck; they make
+them of split bamboo; and they are so powerful that persons not
+accustomed to using the bow, would scarcely be able to bend them. Their
+arrows are pieces of wood made heavy at one end by a piece of stone or
+shell, sharpened at the end.
+
+Their clubs are made of a hard black wood; the handle is made small, and
+has a knob at the end to prevent its slipping out of the hand.
+
+They are very fond of all sorts of European articles; especially beads,
+glass, red cloth, bottles, and particularly of iron, which they call
+‘torre.’ When they see a ship, they say directly, “We will get some
+torre.” They think iron is found in the white men’s country in large
+rocks; and that we merely have to break pieces off as we want them.
+
+Of all things, they were most inquisitive about fire-arms, which they
+call by the same name as they do their bows. Dupper told me that some of
+their people had been killed by them, and they never could see what
+struck them. But I could not explain to him the way that a gun was made,
+for I scarcely knew myself; all I could tell him I did, but this only
+made him the more curious.
+
+Their usual way of catching fish is by spearing; but they also take the
+small ones with a kind of net, something like a sieve. One party
+disturbs the water, by beating it with long bamboo sticks, and so drive
+the fish towards the other, who then spear or net them. Lobsters are
+caught in the following manner: a party will get on a sandbank at night,
+some of them holding a bunch of lighted cocoa-nut leaves above their
+heads; the lobsters, seeing the light, leave their holes, and are then
+speared by the others.
+
+Turtles abound on the islands, and are caught by the natives very
+dexterously. When they see them asleep on the water, a party of seven or
+eight go in a canoe, four of the party paddling very slowly and silently
+towards them, the others squatting on the fore part of the canoe, with a
+rope fastened to their arms, and only their heads above the side of the
+canoe. Upon getting near enough, the parties in the canoe suddenly leap
+out, and catch the turtle by the fins; by which they are then hauled
+into the boat. I have seen three caught at one time in this manner.
+
+After I had resided some months on this island, a native died in one of
+the huts near Dupper’s. Upon his telling me of the event, he said he was
+certain something very dreadful would happen soon. This remark of
+Dupper’s startled me; for it was the first death I had known on the
+island, and I could not help thinking of the fate of the crew of the
+Charles Eaton. An idea once or twice entered my mind that harm was
+intended to me on account of the death of this man; but Dupper treated
+me just the same as usual. Soon after sunset I went to rest, still
+feeling very uneasy. I had not lain very long, when I heard a noise, as
+of a person rattling shells, and breathing very hard.
+
+Dupper uttered a short sentence in a language which I did not
+understand, and quite different from that of Murray’s Island, and then
+himself and all that were in the hut, hid their faces in the sand. I
+asked Dupper what the noise was; he told me, the spirit of the dead man.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _John Ireland sees the extraordinary apparitions which cause such
+    superstitious terrors among the Murray Islanders._
+  See page 45.
+]
+
+The next day, I and some of the natives, with little William, were
+sitting under a bamboo fence, close to the huts, when I heard the same
+noise a short distance off. On looking among the bushes, I saw two
+figures, the one red and the other white, with what appeared to be a fan
+over each of their heads. They began throwing stones at us; and the
+natives, who were about twenty in number, instead of getting up and
+driving them away, sat still, and seemed to be totally unnerved. The
+figures were very short, not larger than children fourteen years of age.
+I was told that they were the spirits of their departed friends.
+
+I have since taken a great deal of trouble to ascertain what these
+figures were; for they made me very uneasy. I took particular notice of
+them at the time, and have searched through all the huts; but never
+could discover any traces of dresses similar to those worn by the
+figures.
+
+The club is their principal weapon: with it they endeavor to strike the
+head; and one blow is generally fatal. Their spears, which they throw
+with great accuracy, are made of bamboo, with points made of sharpened
+shells. They also use them in their hand with great dexterity.
+
+Their bows are very dangerous instruments of warfare; as they sometimes
+poison their arrows. Being naked, they often get a slight scratch from
+one of these, and as they have no remedy for the poison, they die a
+painful and lingering death.
+
+I was one afternoon sitting upon one of the hills in the island, when I
+saw a ship coming round a point of the island. My thoughts now turned
+upon the possibility of reaching this vessel, which approached nearer
+and nearer, and appeared as if intending to stop at the island. There
+was a merry-making in the village on that day: but my desire to leave
+the savage life, prevented me from taking part in it as usual; in fact,
+I wanted to draw the attention of those on board to myself before the
+natives should see her; but could not tell how to do so, the ship being
+so far off.
+
+I did not attain my object, notwithstanding all my endeavors. As soon as
+the ship was observed, Dupper, as he usually did when a vessel came in
+sight, painted my body black, with a streak of red on the bridge of my
+nose, extending along my forehead, over each of my eye-brows. My ears
+having been pierced on my arrival at Murray’s Island, his wife and
+daughters hung tassels, made of plaited grass, to them. They also put
+ornaments round my neck, body, arms, wrists, and ancles.
+
+When the ship came near enough to us for their glasses to make
+observations, the natives broke branches off the trees, and waved them.
+I did the same myself, and, to my unspeakable joy, saw her come near to
+the shore and drop her anchor. I then thought my deliverance certain;
+but was sadly disappointed that no boat came off to the shore. I went
+down to the beach along with Dupper and William, and some of the
+natives, but still no boat appeared, and I waited till the night set in.
+
+Next morning, soon after sunrise, several canoes went away to the ship,
+Dupper and myself being in one of them; William was left on the island.
+We were in the third or fourth that got along-side and we dropped
+directly under the stern.
+
+A rope was thrown from the vessel into our canoe, and I caught hold of
+it, and tried to get on board by it. But I had sprained my wrist, by a
+fall, a day or two before, and waving the branch had made it exceedingly
+painful, so that I could not climb. One of the crew held out a roll of
+tobacco to me, but I could not reach it; so I asked him to lower the
+boat for me to get in.
+
+The captain and officers were at that time bartering with the natives
+for curiosities and tortoise shell; they had one of the cutters lowered,
+but put their pistols and naked cutlasses into it. When the natives saw
+that, they thought mischief was intended to me and to themselves; they
+immediately let go the rope, and paddled towards the shore. I stood up
+in the canoe; but Dupper took hold of me and laid me down in the middle
+of it. The boat rowed a little way after us and then returned to the
+vessel.
+
+A few hours afterwards, the boat came close to the beach, with, I
+believe, the captain on board, to shoot birds. One of the natives took
+little William on his shoulders, and went down to the beach, he walked
+towards the boat, and beckoned to the crew to come and take him.
+
+I had often mentioned to the natives that the white people would give
+them axes, and bottles, and iron, for the little boy; I told them his
+relations were rich, and would be glad to give them a great deal if they
+would let them have him back.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _The kind Murray Islander surprised and delighted at perceiving iron
+    can be bent by fire._
+  See page 51.
+]
+
+The captain made signs for the natives to go nearer to the boat; for he
+stopped at some distance; but neither party would approach the other,
+and the boat soon after returned to the vessel. I was kept among the
+bushes all this time, by Dupper and his sons: but I could plainly see
+every thing that took place. The ship sailed next morning, and we were
+both left on the island. All my hopes of deliverance by means of this
+vessel, were thus put an end to.
+
+This vessel’s sailing without me, made such an impression upon my mind,
+that for three or four days I could eat no food, and at length became
+extremely ill. I think at times I was light-headed, for I did not know
+what I was doing. When I got better, which was in about a week, the idea
+that I should end my days among the savages settled upon me, and I
+became quite melancholy.
+
+My health after this began visibly to decline; and it grieved me to see
+William was also getting thin and sickly; for I had no remedy in case of
+illness. Nor did I ever see the natives make use of any thing either to
+prevent or cure diseases to which they are subject.
+
+One morning, Dupper was trying to straighten a piece of an iron bolt,
+and was heating it very hard with a large piece of stone, without being
+able to make any impression upon it. I told him to make a large fire,
+and put the iron into it, which would soften it. He did so, and his
+astonishment was very great when he found it answer the purpose.
+
+He was very much pleased with me for this discovery, and often told the
+other natives of it. Almost all of them had a piece of iron, obtained
+from the different wrecks which had happened on the island, or by
+trading with the Europeans; and we were after this frequently employed
+in straightening or altering the shape of these iron articles, as it
+might suit the various fancies of their owners.
+
+After we had been about a year on Murray’s Island, Dupper told me that
+the natives intended to go on a trading voyage to Dowder, (this I
+afterwards learned was the name they called New Guinea,) and I was to be
+one of the party.
+
+For this journey, twelve large canoes about sixty feet long, each
+containing from ten to sixteen persons, men, and women, and children,
+were prepared. As many shells as the natives could collect were put into
+the canoes, and we set sail. The natives of New Guinea wear these shells
+for ornaments; and in return for them, the Murray Islanders get canoes,
+bows and arrows and feathers.
+
+When we came to Darnley’s Island, Dupper left me in the charge of a
+native of that place, named Agge, telling me he was afraid that the New
+Guinea people would steal or murder me. The party did not stay long on
+this island, for the next morning they left me, not expecting to see
+them again for a month.
+
+How great was my surprise, when on the following evening, Dupper
+returned to the island where he had left me. I asked him whether he had
+changed all his shells so quickly, or whether any thing serious had
+happened, that he had come back so soon.
+
+He told me that they stopped at an island called Jarmuth, to pass the
+night, and that a quarrel ensued between one of the natives of that
+island, and a Murray Islander, named Newboo, and Dupper’s two nephews,
+about a pipe of tobacco. Another of the natives of Jarmuth had attempted
+to take from one of the Murray Islanders his moco, an ornament worn
+round the calf of the leg, made of the bark of bamboo.
+
+These outrages had caused a fight with bows and arrows, in which several
+of the Jarmuth people were wounded, and one of them shot through the
+body; but none of the Murray Islanders were hurt. On this account the
+voyage was not taken, but we all returned to Murray’s Island.
+
+About three days after this, the Jarmuth people sent a message offering
+peace; but it was not accepted, and they were still unreconciled when I
+came away.
+
+The time of our deliverance, however, which we had so long given up as
+hopeless, was now near at hand. The years we had passed among the
+savages had not taken from my memory the scenes of home, and happiness,
+and England; but since the departure of the last vessel that touched at
+the shore of the island, the thoughts of my friends and relations had
+come to my remembrance as forcibly as if it was only the day before that
+had been passed in their company, and in my mind it was but a week since
+events of the most pleasing kind had happened; and I had brooded over
+these reflections till my body had wasted to a mere skeleton, through
+the melancholy exertions of my mind; aided, no doubt, by the sickness
+which neglect, thus involuntarily induced, had attacked my weakened
+frame.
+
+I used to delight to tell William about his father and mother; how they
+left a far off country in a large canoe; and of the storm, when he was
+nearly killed; how his mother kissed and fondled him to her bosom, when
+I brought him to her. Then that he had a brother, who came with us in
+the ship and played with him, till in the storm the ship was wrecked and
+broke to pieces; how we all were nearly starved to death; and at last
+escaped on the rafts; that his father and mother, and nurse, with many
+more men, were killed by the natives of Boydan: and we had left his
+brother there among the savages, and had not seen them since; and of
+Dupper’s buying us, and bringing us to this island, and how kind he was.
+
+These recitals would bring tears into the eyes of my young wondering
+listener, showing that the impression was made upon his mind. How his
+tears pleased me! His simple questions upon these occasions were
+answered with an eagerness which showed with what deepness thought had
+fixed them on my memory. I need not add, how these things made me love
+the infant that God had thus thrown, as I thought, into my charge; nor
+how I resolved to endeavor, as far as my means would enable me, to
+cherish and protect him in his helplessness.
+
+I had asked Dupper to enquire what had become of George Doyley and John
+Sexton, if he should at any time happen to meet with one of the natives
+of Boydan. He could not learn any tidings for a long time; but at length
+he told me that he understood they were both dead.
+
+Some time after this, I heard two of the natives conversing, and one of
+them said that the youngest white boy at Boydan, (this was George
+Doyley,) had got sick and died; and that the other one (John Sexton,)
+had been speared by one of the natives.
+
+One evening, Dupper’s brother was obliged to leave his house to do some
+business, and some of Dupper’s family, with myself, were asked to go
+there to take care of it during his absence. This house was on the
+hills.
+
+The next morning, I saw a vessel come round the point of the island, and
+soon after drop her anchor near the shore. I immediately went down to
+the beach, where I saw several canoes paddling off. I attempted to get
+into one of them, but Dupper would not let me. I tried very hard to
+prevail on him to let me go, but for some time he would not consent. He
+told me to hide myself among the trees on the hills, for he was sure the
+people on board the ship would kill me.
+
+After much persuasion, upon my telling him that I did not want to leave
+him, but only to procure some axes and other articles, he with
+reluctance allowed me to get into his canoe. We then went off to the
+ship. I was fearful lest some misunderstanding should take place, so I
+asked Dupper to request silence until I had spoken with the people in
+the ship. The natives accordingly did not speak.
+
+When we got within a short distance, a person hailed me, and asked what
+ship I came out in. I answered, “In the Charles Eaton.” He then asked me
+whether there were any more white people on the island? I replied, “Only
+a child about four or five years old.” He then told me to come
+along-side, which I did, and was then taken on board.
+
+My agitation was so great, that I could scarcely answer the questions
+which were put to me; and it was some time before I recovered my
+self-possession. Captain Lewis took me down into the cabin, and gave me
+a shirt, a pair of trowsers, and a straw hat. He ordered some bread and
+cheese and beer for me; but the thoughts of again revisiting my home and
+friends prevented me from eating much of it.
+
+He asked me what had become of the remaining passengers and crew. I told
+him, as near as I could, all that had happened; that they were all
+murdered, with the exception of five men who had escaped in a cutter. He
+then told me that his ship had been fitted out in search of us. For this
+kindness on the part of government, I can not enough express my sincere
+thanks, and my sorrow that it should meet with so small a return.
+
+Dupper and several of the natives had come on board, and Captain Lewis
+told me to desire them to bring William. They said he was on the other
+side of the island, (this was the case,) but that they would bring him
+the next day. Captain Lewis then said that he would allow no trading
+till the child was on board. Most of the natives returned to the island
+in the evening; and those that remained, slept on deck, with a sail to
+cover them. Dupper and Oby were allowed to sleep with me.
+
+Next day, the natives made a great many excuses against bringing William
+on board; they said he was crying, and would not leave the women. I told
+them that unless they brought him, they would not be allowed to trade.
+About the middle of the day he was brought. At first, he seemed
+frightened at the strangers, and did not like parting with his old black
+friends; but I did my best to pacify him, and he soon became used to the
+new faces.
+
+One of the sailors made him a frock and trowsers, and another gave him a
+cap; he looked very curious in them, but at first they made him
+uncomfortable. I have the cap now in my possession.
+
+The natives of these islands are much given to pilfering. One of them
+was seen taking a knife, and was immediately sent out of the ship. I saw
+Dupper steal a pair of compasses, but I said nothing about it to any
+one: I did not like to offend him.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  _The kind Murray Islander taking leave of the Orphans._
+  See page 61.
+]
+
+The next night, Captain Lewis amused the islanders with a display of
+rockets, and firing of great guns, with which they were highly
+delighted.
+
+Before the ship sailed, Dupper went and collected a quantity of
+cocoa-nuts, yams, and tobacco, which he brought on board for me. He then
+asked who was to have the care of my canoe, bow and arrows, and other
+articles? I said, his son Bowdoo; with which he seemed very well
+satisfied.
+
+He seemed to feel pained at parting; he cried, hugged me, and then cried
+again; at last he told me to come back soon, and bring him plenty of
+things, and not to forget ‘torre’. I then bade farewell to the poor old
+man, and the rest of the natives, who patted and fondled William in his
+new dress, and on Tuesday, the 28th of June, at about eight o’clock in
+the morning, we left Murray’s Island.
+
+The Isabella schooner had been fitted out to search the islands for the
+white people who had been shipwrecked in the Charles Eaton, or might be
+left on them from any shipwreck. I went with the vessel to all those
+islands they had not searched before they discovered us; and my speaking
+the language was of great service.
+
+On one of the islands, we found a figure made of tortoise shell, painted
+something like a man’s face, round which were tied forty-five skulls.
+These we took on board. We observed that they were more or less injured.
+Several of them were supposed to have belonged to Europeans, and one to
+a woman.
+
+Our voyage was prosperous, and we arrived at Sidney without any
+accident. Great excitement had been caused in this place by the
+melancholy disappearance of so many persons; and the rumor of our story,
+and of the fate of the Charles Eaton and crew, made William and myself
+objects of great curiosity.
+
+I was taken to the governor of the colony, Sir Richard Bourke; to whom I
+related as much of this narrative as I could recollect. I had forty
+shillings given to me by the captain of the Japan, a whaler that we
+passed on our journey home. This money enabled me to buy some clothes.
+Sir Richard Bourke placed some money in the hands of a person in Sidney,
+to defray my expenses during the time I stayed there; the remainder of
+which sum I have received since my arrival in London.
+
+A lady named Mrs. Slade, whose husband is a government officer in
+Sidney, hearing that the name of one of the boys brought by the Isabella
+was Doyley, made inquiries respecting him, and found that he was the son
+of an old and esteemed friend. She immediately requested permission to
+take charge of poor William; who was accordingly given into her charge.
+
+Our health, which had been improving during the passage home, now began
+to recover quickly. We had every attention paid to us that was possible;
+our cancers were subjected to medical treatment, and in a few weeks I
+was completely cured.
+
+I stayed here five months, hoping to accompany William to England; but a
+boy threw a stone at him, which severely hurt his head, and threw him
+again on a bed of sickness, and deferred his departure. At the time I
+left, he was recovering fast.
+
+Not wishing to be longer dependent on the bounty of any person, and an
+opportunity offering, of a situation on board the Florentia, commanded
+by Captain Deloitte, bound to London, I took my farewell of William and
+my other kind friends, and went on board in the month of February.
+
+We set sail, and experienced a little rough weather on our passage, but
+arrived in London without accident, in August.
+
+I had now been absent from England nearly four years; and it is
+impossible to describe my feelings when again putting my foot upon its
+long-desired ground; none but those similarly situated can understand
+them. All I wish the kind reader to do, is to avoid the savages of
+Boydan, but lend a helping hand to civilize the kind natives of Murray’s
+Island, and the Indians of Torres Straits.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
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+ 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
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-Title: The Shipwrecked Orphans

-       A true narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of John

-              Ireland and William Doyley, who were wrecked in the ship

-              Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas

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-Author: John  Ireland

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-<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber’s Note:</strong></p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p>

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-  <h1 class='c001'>THE<br /> SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS:<br /> A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE<br /> SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS<br /> OF<br /> JOHN IRELAND AND WILLIAM DOYLEY,<br /> WHO WERE WRECKED IN THE<br /> SHIP CHARLES EATON,<br /> ON AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SEAS.</h1>

-</div>

-

-<div class='nf-center-c1'>

-<div class='nf-center c002'>

-    <div>WRITTEN BY JOHN IRELAND.</div>

-    <div class='c002'>NEW HAVEN.</div>

-    <div class='c002'>PUBLISHED BY S. BABCOCK.</div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <h2 class='c003'><i>TO MY YOUNG READERS.</i></h2>

-</div>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id002'>

-<img src='images/i_002.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-</div>

-

-<div class='lg-container-l c004'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'><i>My dear little Friends</i>:</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'>For this volume of <span class='sc'>Teller’s Tales</span>, I have

-selected the “<span class='sc'>Shipwrecked Orphans</span>, a True Narrative of the

-Sufferings of John Ireland” and a little child, named William Doyley,

-who were unfortunately wrecked in the ship Charles Eaton, of London,

-and lived for several years with the natives of the South Sea

-Islands. The remainder of the passengers and crew of this ill-fated

-ship, were most inhumanly murdered by the savages soon after they

-landed from the wreck. The Narrative was written by one of the

-Orphans, John Ireland, and I give it to you in nearly his own words,

-having made but few alterations in the style in which he tells the

-story of their sufferings.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The people of some of the South Sea Islands, are of a very cruel

-disposition; some of them are cannibals; that is, they eat the flesh of

-those unfortunate persons who may happen to be shipwrecked on their

-Islands, or whom they may take prisoners of war. Others, on the contrary,

-show the greatest kindness to strangers in distress. May the

-time soon come when civilization and the Christian religion shall

-reach all these benighted savages, and teach them to relieve the distressed,

-and to regard the unfortunate as their brethren.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>As very little is yet known of the manners and customs of these

-savage tribes, I trust this Narrative will prove both interesting and

-instructive to you all; and I hope you will feel grateful that,—unlike

-the sufferers in this story,—you are surrounded with the comforts of

-life, and have kind parents and friends to watch over you and defend

-you from the dangers and miseries to which these poor Orphans

-were so long exposed.</p>

-

-<div class='lg-container-r'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'>Your old friend and well-wisher,</div>

-      <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thomas Teller</span>.</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<div class='lg-container-l'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'><i>Roseville Hall</i>, 1844.</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<div class='pbb'>

- <hr class='pb c002' />

-</div>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>

-  <h2 class='c003'><span class='large'>THE</span><br /> SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS.</h2>

-</div>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id002'>

-<img src='images/i_003.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-</div>

-

-<p class='c005'>Having obtained a situation as assistant in the

-cabin of the ship Charles Eaton, I went on board

-on the 28th of September, 1833, to assist in preparing

-for the voyage. In the month of December

-following, I had the misfortune to fall into the

-dock, and not being able to swim, narrowly escaped

-drowning; but through the exertions of Mr.

-Clare, the chief officer of the ship, I was with difficulty

-saved.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>About the 19th of December, we left the dock,

-with a cargo mostly of lead and calico. Our crew

-consisted of the following persons: Frederick

-Moore, commander; Robert Clare, chief mate;

-William Major, second mate, Messrs. Ching and

-Perry, midshipmen; Mr. Grant, surgeon: Mr.

-Williams, sail-maker; William Montgomery,

-steward; Lawrence Constantyne, carpenter;

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>Thomas Everitt, boatswain; John Barry, George

-Lawn, James Millar, James Moore, John Carr,

-Francis Hower, William Jefferies, Samuel Baylett,

-Charles Robertson, and Francis Quill, seamen;

-and John Sexton, and myself, boys. The

-passengers were, Mr. Armstrong, a native of Ireland,

-and twenty-five male and female children

-from the Emigration Society, with some other

-steerage passengers.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We had a favorable passage down the river to

-Gravesend, where we took leave of our pilot.

-A pilot is a person who takes charge of the ships

-in those parts of rivers where they are dangerous.

-On the 23d of December we went on our voyage,

-passing Deal on the 25th, and arrived at Cowes, in

-the Isle of Wight, on the 27th.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The wind here proved contrary, and we were

-detained in the harbor until the 4th of January,

-1834; when, as we were attempting to quit, a

-schooner ran against our vessel and broke off our

-bowsprit and jib-boom, and did other damage to

-her. The bowsprit is the mast that sticks out in

-front of the ship, and the jib-boom is the top joint

-of the bowsprit. We were therefore obliged to

-remain there until the repairing of the ship was

-completed; and on the 1st of February left Cowes.</p>

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-<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>

-<img src='images/i_006.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>Manner in which the Murray Islanders spearfish—a female assisting.</i><br />See Page <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>This accident caused great alarm among the passengers,

-and more especially among the children;

-indeed it was well that we escaped as we did; for

-even in our own harbors in England, ships are often

-in great danger.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We arrived at Falmouth, near Land’s-end in

-Cornwall, on the 5th of February; and having on

-the 8th completed our cargo, left England with a

-good wind, and every prospect of a happy voyage.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>About the latter end of March, we crossed the

-Equator; that is, that part of the world where the

-sun is over head and makes no shadow; here we

-went through the usual ceremony of paying tribute

-to Neptune, to the great amusement of the passengers.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We came to the Cape of Good Hope, which is

-in Africa, on the 1st of May, and here we landed

-several of our passengers; we again set sail, on the

-4th, for Hobart’s Town, in Australia, upwards  of

-twenty thousand miles from England, where we

-arrived on the 16th of June; at this place we bade

-farewell to our young emigrants, and some of the

-passengers.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>On the 8th of July, Captain and Mrs. Doyley,

-with their two sons, George and William, the one

-about seven or eight years old, and the other about

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>fourteen months, came on board as passengers to

-Sourabaya, intending to go from thence to Calcutta,

-in the East Indies. William, the youngest, was

-my unfortunate companion.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Nothing particular occurred after our leaving

-Hobart’s Town, till we arrived in Sidney, in New

-South Wales, on the 13th of July. There we took

-in some ballast; that is, heavy articles which are

-put in the bottom of the ship to keep it from turning

-over with the wind. Our boatswain, Mr.

-Everitt, left us at Sidney, and we took on board in

-his stead Mr. Pigot, and two or three seamen.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We set sail for China on the 29th. An accident

-happened two or three days after leaving the town,

-which almost caused the death of our excellent

-chief officer, Mr. Clare. An anchor is an iron instrument

-affixed to the end of a long chain, and is

-used to keep ships in one place. It generally

-hangs at the bows, or fore part of the vessel. The

-men were getting the anchor in its proper place,

-and Mr. Clare was helping them; on a sudden, the

-wood of the implement which he was using broke,

-and he fell into the sea. We immediately stopped

-work, and let down the boat, and he being an excellent

-swimmer, was able to keep up till the boat

-reached him. We were at that time going about

-six miles an hour.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>We sailed this time with fine weather and good

-winds, and made the entrance to Torres Straits, a

-narrow passage between two islands in the Southern

-Ocean, on the 14th of August, in the evening.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The wind now began to blow rather hard; so

-much so that the captain thought it necessary to

-take in some of the sails, and would not attempt to

-go on during the dark. However, at daylight on

-the next morning we again set sail, although the

-wind was very high, and the water getting rough,

-that is, forming itself into large waves.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The wind continued to increase till about ten

-o’clock in the morning, when the ship struck on a

-reef called the “Detached Reef.” A reef is a

-number of rocks in the water, at a short distance

-from the land, over which the water just rises, without

-leaving room enough for a ship to pass. The

-Detached Reef was near the entrance of Torres

-Straits.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>So violent was the shock, that the rudder (that by

-which a ship is guided,) and the keel, (that ledge

-which runs along the bottom of the ship,) were

-both knocked off, and the captain gave it as his

-opinion that nothing could save the ship.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The chief mate cut away the masts, in order to

-lighten her; but without effect, and we then found

-that the bottom was broken in, at which place the

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>water soon made an entrance, and completely

-spoiled every thing she contained. The high and

-swelling waves broke completely over her, and in a

-short time the vessel was a perfect wreck.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>It was happy for us that the upper part kept together

-as it did, though there was so much danger,

-from the water rising, that every one expected to be

-washed over. There was plainly to be heard above

-the din of the wind and sea, the horrible groaning

-of the planks forming the sides of the ship, between

-which the water rushed as through a sieve; and as

-they were one by one broken away from the ill-fated

-vessel, we felt that we were approaching nearer

-to a death from which we could not hope to escape,

-unless by some merciful interposition of Divine

-Goodness we should be rescued from our watery

-enemy.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Nor were these thoughts lessened by seeing that

-ours was not the only vessel that had cause to repent

-the dangerous and almost unknown navigation of

-these straits. About three or four miles from us, to

-the windward, or that side from which the wind

-blows, we observed a ship high and dry, that is,

-lying out of water, upon the reefs; she had her

-masts standing, her royal yards across, and her sails

-set; in which state she had seemingly been left by

-her crew.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>At the time of the vessel striking, Mrs. Doyley

-was taking coffee in the cabin, and her infant was

-asleep in one of the berths, little dreaming to what

-future ills his weak and helpless frame was to be

-exposed.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The distracted mother instantly ran on deck in

-alarm; and I went into the cabin, where I saw the

-poor child washed out of its berth, and crying on

-the floor. I took him to Mrs. Doyley, who, after

-that time, for the seven long days which were occupied

-in making the raft, could not by any means

-be persuaded to give up her dear charge.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Upon finding how the ship was situated, Captain

-Moore ordered the boats to be got ready, and furnished

-with provisions, in order, if possible, to

-save the ship’s company, and reach the island of

-Timor, regretting the stern necessity which urged

-him to such a step in such a sea.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I once heard Captain Moore declare that he was

-sorry he had not made use of his own chart, instead

-of one that he bought at Sidney, lest there might

-be any mistake in his own.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We were in possession of four boats; the long

-boat, two cutters, and a small boat called a dingy.

-Three of the seamen seized one of the cutters; and

-two others got on board of it next morning by swimming

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>across the reef at the imminent peril of their

-lives. A little biscuit, a ham, and a keg of water,

-with some carpenters’ tools, had been placed in the

-boat on its leaving the ship. As soon as the two

-men had got into the boat, they rowed away, and I

-have never heard any tidings of them since.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The persons remaining on board the wreck now

-held a consultation as to what was best to be done

-in this miserable state of their affairs. There were

-about thirty persons, without sufficient provisions

-to sustain life, much less satisfy the cravings of

-hunger, for a month, without any fresh water, and

-with no prospect of escape from their forlorn condition.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Every care was requisite to prevent the least

-excess or extravagance. We were all put upon

-allowance of a few damaged pieces of biscuit and

-two wine-glassfuls of water per day, during the

-seven days of making the raft, which was our only

-hope, and on which we went to work with all the

-energy our desperate state allowed us. A raft is

-formed of pieces of wood roughly fastened together,

-so that it will float on the water; some have been

-made large enough to hold a hundred and fifty

-people.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>The poop, or raised part of the deck, and one

-side of the forecastle, or front part, being washed

-away, the small part of it that remained was so

-crowded that we were almost always in one another’s

-way, although as many as could were working

-at the raft. All the provision that we could save,

-and that was very little, and all the materials wanted

-for our work, were obliged to be put on this

-small space, for the water rose four feet higher than

-the deck below, and broke away some of the planks

-and timbers every time the tide rose.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>As the tide went down, we dived into the body

-of the ship, to try to get some of the ship’s stores,

-and with the hopeless idea of getting something to

-satisfy our hunger; but the bottom was so washed

-away that the hold could not contain any thing

-which might have been in it at the time of the

-storm.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Mrs. Doyley and her husband gave every stimulus

-to exertion; and the kind manner in which

-they requested us to make use of any of their

-clothes, part of which were the only ones saved, I

-shall ever remember with gratitude.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We managed, however, to distil a small quantity

-of water, of which a cask and a few bottles were

-saved for the raft, by boiling it in the ship’s coppers,

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>and leading the steam by means of a pipe,

-through the quarter galley cistern, and catching the

-water thus made in a cask. The supply of this

-valuable article thus procured, small as it was, we

-found to be one of our greatest helps during our

-stay upon the wreck.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The raft was completed, as well as the difficulties

-that we had to overcome would permit, in

-seven days; and the water, with a cask of pork

-and some biscuit, being put upon it, we all followed;

-but it was not sufficiently buoyant for all; that is, it

-was not light enough to keep us up; so the greater

-part of us returned to the wreck, leaving upon the

-raft, the captain, Mr. Moore; the surgeon, Mr.

-Grant; Captain and Mrs. Doyley, and their two

-children; their black nurse, a native of India; and

-Mr. Armstrong, with two seamen, named Lowine

-and Berry; who determined to remain on it all

-night.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>In the morning, however, we found the rope by

-which the raft had been made fast to the stern or

-back part of the vessel was cut, and we could see

-nothing of our late companions.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>It is probable that the uncomfortable situation

-in which they were placed, up to their waists in

-water, induced Captain Moore to cut the rope, and

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>trust to the wind and sea to carry them to a place

-of safety. The gale had abated, and the sea lulled,

-during the time we were making the raft.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<img src='images/i_015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>The unhappy crew got on the raft, cut the rope and bade adieu to the wreck of the Charles Eaton.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>Those who had returned on board set to work to

-make another raft of the ship’s topmasts, lashed or

-tightly tied together with rope. A topmast is the

-top joint of a mast. We also made a sail of some

-of the cloth of the ship’s cargo.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We worked with the greatest diligence, but did

-not complete it for about a week. We then got

-upon it, with all the food we could get, which was

-only a few pieces of damaged biscuit; we cut the

-rope, and bade adieu to the wreck of the Charles

-Eaton.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>What our feelings were at that time, I can scarcely

-describe. The fear that the adventure we had

-undertaken would not turn out to advantage; the

-certainty of death if we remained; the hope of again

-reaching our native country, were each brought in

-turn to mind, and acting upon our already half-starved

-condition, made us almost incapable of

-using the little strength of which we had not been

-deprived, and we took our places on the raft in a

-silence which showed the height of our despair.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The vessel that we saw with her masts standing,

-was too far off to windward for us to reach; I do

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>not think a boat could have been rowed up to her,

-against the wind and tide, which were both against

-us, and the current running very strong, so we gave

-up the idea as hopeless.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>As soon as we had cast off, we set our sail, and

-steered along with the wind; but our raft was so

-heavy and deep that the progress we made was very

-slow. We drifted, rather than sailed, and that at

-a rate of not more than a mile or a mile and a half

-an hour.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We came to a reef, upon which we stayed all

-night; the next morning we again set sail on our

-perilous voyage before the wind, but saw no more

-reefs. We were two more days and nights upon

-the raft, up to our waists in water, and with a very

-small allowance of food. This was soon all eaten.

-We then passed an island, and saw several more

-ahead.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Soon after we had passed the first island, we

-saw a canoe paddling towards us, containing ten or

-twelve native Indians. A canoe is a rude kind of

-Indian boat. As they came towards us, they extended

-their arms, which we supposed meant that

-they were unarmed, and wished to be friendly.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>On their reaching the raft, several of them got

-upon it, and were gently put back by Mr. Clare;

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>he at the same time saying that he thought from

-their manners that they were not to be trusted.

-They were very stout men, and quite naked.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>An event happened, which, at another time,

-would have afforded much amusement, but now,

-was a serious loss. One of the Indians, attracted

-no doubt by a piece of white cloth that was hanging

-to the top of our mast, climbed up it; when the

-desired cloth was within his reach, the mast broke,

-and he was thrown into the sea, without receiving

-any injury.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We gave the natives a looking glass and a piece

-of red cloth, with which they appeared very much

-pleased, and began to make signs to us to get into

-their canoe. We at first hesitated to do so, until

-Mr. Ching, the midshipman, said he would go; as

-he thought by that means to get sooner to England;

-at any rate, he said, he could not be worse

-off.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Upon his going into the canoe, we all agreed to

-go too, and left the raft; on which the Indians

-commenced a strict search for iron and tools; but

-could find nothing but a few old hoops. These

-they collected and put into the canoe.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>It was about four in the afternoon when we left

-the raft; and after passing three islands on our

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>right, and one on our left, we landed on an island

-which I afterwards found the natives called Boydan.

-We could plainly see the main land, about

-fourteen or fifteen miles distant. The island was

-very small.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>As soon as we landed, we made signs that we

-were hungry. The natives went with us round

-the island in search of food and water. We were

-unsuccessful; not having found so much as a drop

-of water. When we returned to the place where

-we landed, hunger and fatigue had so completely

-exhausted us that we could scarcely walk.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The Indians now began to show signs of their

-ferocious disposition. They stood around us,

-grinning and yelling in a most hideous manner, as

-though delighting in the success of their schemes,

-and feeling fresh delight at our showing how great

-was our increasing pain.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Mr. Clare now said we had better prepare for

-the worst; indeed it was very plain that the Indians

-were only watching an opportunity to kill us.

-He read some prayers from a book which he had

-brought from the wreck; and we all most heartily

-joined with him in supplication. We felt that

-probably it would be our last and only opportunity

-while here on earth.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>

-<img src='images/i_022.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>The savages of Boydan treacherously murdering the crew of the Charles Eaton while they are sleeping.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>How true is the admonition which warns us that

-“in the midst of life we are in death.” But little

-did the wanderers who set out in the frail vessel,

-in all the gaiety of health and strength, imagine

-what was to be their melancholy fate, what would

-be their sufferings, or what the horrible termination

-of their existence.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After having spent some time in prayer, we threw

-ourselves on the ground, in expectation of being

-killed. Although it will readily be imagined we

-were little in heart disposed to slumber, yet such

-was the state to which we were reduced, that most

-of us fell almost immediately into a sound sleep.

-The natives, seeing us lying down, appeared anxious

-that we should go to sleep; which they signified

-to us by putting their head on one shoulder,

-and closing their eyes.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I felt quite sure, from one thing, that mischief

-was intended. I saw one of the natives advance

-from a canoe in a strange manner; stealing cautiously

-along with a club in his hand, hid as he

-thought from our sight, behind his back, and

-which he dropped upon the beach. I told this to

-the seaman, Carr, who was lying next to me; but

-he, being very sleepy, seem to take no notice of it,

-and soon after was in a deep sleep. Not long after

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>this, I observed with dread, that as the people fell

-asleep, a native placed himself between every two

-of us; yet I was so overcome with weariness and

-weakness, I fell asleep too. This I have no doubt,

-was for the more easy execution of the horrid purpose

-they intended, that of murdering us, without

-giving us a chance for escape or defence. It was

-utterly out of our power to resist; as we had not

-so much as a staff or stick to defend ourselves with;

-and our exhaustion was too great to allow us to

-quit the place where we then were.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>About as near as I can guess, an hour after I

-had been asleep, I was awoke by a terrible shouting

-and noise. I instantly arose, and on looking round,

-I saw the natives killing my companions by dashing

-out their brains with clubs. The first that was

-killed was Mr. Ching, and after him his companion,

-Mr. Perry; the next victim was Mr. Major,

-the second officer.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The confusion now became terrible, and my

-agitation at beholding the horrid scene was so

-great that do I not distinctly remember what passed

-after this. The last person that I recollect seeing

-alive was Mr. Clare; who in an attempt to escape,

-was overtaken and immediately murdered by a

-blow on the head.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>Myself and John Sexton were now the only two remaining

-alive. An Indian came to me with a

-carving knife in his hand, which I could see belonged

-to the cabin, and recollected its being put

-on the first raft. He seized me, and tried to cut

-my throat; but I grasped the blade of the knife in

-my right hand, and held it fast. I struggled hard

-for my life. He at last threw me down, and placing

-his knee upon my breast, tried to wrench the

-knife out of my hand; but I still kept it, though

-one of my fingers was cut to the bone. I at last

-succeeded in getting upon him, and then I let go

-my hold, and ran into the sea.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I swam out a little way; but the only chance for

-my life being to return to shore, I landed again,

-expecting to be killed on the spot. The same

-Indian then came towards me in a furious manner,

-and shot an arrow at me, which struck me in my

-right breast. On a sudden, however, he, very

-much to my surprise, became quite calm, and led,

-or rather dragged me to a little distance, and offered

-me some fish. This, hungry as I was, I

-was afraid to eat lest it should be poisoned.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>During my stay with these people, I have frequently

-seen them fly into a violent rage, and recover

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>themselves in a moment, becoming quite

-calm, as was the case with the man who had tried

-to take my life.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Whilst struggling with the Indian, I saw Sexton,

-who was held by another, bite a piece out of his

-arm. After that, I knew nothing of him, until I

-found that his life was spared in a manner something

-similar to my own.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Not very far off, the other savages were dancing

-round a large fire, before which they had placed in

-a row, the heads of our unfortunate companions,

-whose bodies, after being stripped of their clothes,

-were left on the beach, and I should think the tide

-soon washed them away, for I never saw them afterwards.

-From these heads, I saw the savages,

-every now and then, cut pieces of flesh from the

-cheeks, and pluck out the eyes, and eat them,

-shouting most hideously. This, I afterwards

-learned, it was the custom of these islanders to do

-with their prisoners; they think that it will give

-them courage, and excite them to revenge themselves

-upon their enemies.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Sexton and myself were taken up to the fire,

-where some of the natives sat like tailors, dividing

-the clothes and other articles which they had taken

-from the bodies of the persons killed. We were

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>given into the care of two of the natives, who covered

-us with a sort of mat, that formed the sail of

-the canoe. My wounds, which were still bleeding

-very much, they did not pay the least attention to.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>

-<img src='images/i_028.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>Horrible and cruel ceremony of the Boydan Islanders.</i><br />See Page <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>It is impossible for me to describe our feelings

-during this dreadful night. We fully expected,

-every moment, to share the fate of those whom we

-had so lately seen cruelly murdered. We prayed

-together for some time, and after each promising to

-call on the other’s relations, should either ever escape,

-we took leave of each other, giving ourselves

-up for lost.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>At length the morning came; and the Indians,

-after having collected all the heads, took us with

-them in their canoes to another island, which they

-called Pullan, where the women lived. On landing,

-I saw Captain Doyley’s two children, and a Newfoundland

-dog, called Portland, which belonged to

-the ship.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The Indians took us to some open huts which

-they had in the island, and placed us before a fire;

-I saw there the gown worn by Mrs. Doyley at the

-time she left the wreck, the steward’s watch and

-white hat, and several other articles of clothing,

-which belonged to those of the crew who left the

-ship in the first raft.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>Near the huts a pole was stuck in the ground,

-around which were hung the heads of our unfortunate

-companions. Among them I plainly recognized

-Mrs. Doyley’s, for they had left part of the

-hair on it; and I knew Captain Moore’s by the

-face.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Every morning about sunrise, and every evening

-at sunset, one of the natives went close to the pole,

-and blew seven or eight times through a large shell;

-which made a noise somewhat like blowing through

-a cow’s horn; at the same time looking up steadfastly

-at the heads.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After this, the other people decked themselves

-with the green branches of trees, and some painted

-or rather rubbed their bodies over with a kind of

-ochre, of a red color and white, and came to the

-pole with great parade, holding their clubs and

-spears. Then they made a sort of corrobory, or

-dance; but I could not trace any signs of religion

-in these ceremonies, nor detect any thing like reverence

-paid to the pole.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I asked George Doyley what had become of his

-father and mother? He told me that they were

-both killed by the blacks, as well as all those who

-went away from the ship in the first raft, excepting

-himself and his little brother.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>The little fellow gave a very distinct account of

-the dreadful transaction. He said he was so frightened

-when he saw his father killed by a blow on the

-head from a club, that he hardly knew what he did;

-but when his mother was killed in the same way, he

-thought they would kill him and his little brother

-too, and then he hoped they should all go to heaven

-together. I then told him that all the crew, except

-myself and Sexton, were murdered.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After we had been on the island a few days, a

-vessel came in sight, and I did all I could to induce

-the natives to take us to it; but they would not

-part with us. Seven days afterwards, two more

-ships, in company, came close to the shore. The

-natives seemed very much frightened at this, and

-were in the utmost confusion; they took us, and all

-the skulls, with the dog, and hid us among the

-bushes until the ships were gone.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We were very scantily supplied with provisions

-during our stay on the island. When the natives

-had been unsuccessful in fishing, they would eat it

-all themselves; and at other times, when they

-caught a good supply, they gave us the entrails

-and heads. This, with a sort of wild plum, and

-now and then a piece of cocoa-nut, which we got

-without their knowledge, was our only food.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>We were sometimes so hungry as to be glad to

-eat the grass. Through doing this, I have often

-been attacked with such violent pains in the stomach,

-as made me unable to walk upright.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Little William Doyley was very ill-used during

-our stay here; he cried very much after his mother;

-and at times the natives, both men and women,

-would tie him up to a tree, and beat him with bamboos;

-on my asking them to leave off, as well

-as I could by signs, they would shoot at me with

-their bows and arrows. On one occasion, when

-the women were beating him, I went and released

-him, and very nearly lost my life, for an arrow was

-shot within an inch of my head. They sometimes

-tied him up and left him several hours.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Sexton and myself were chiefly employed in

-climbing trees, and breaking up fire-wood to cook

-the fish with; when they thought we had not

-enough, they would beat us with their hands, and

-sometimes with the wood.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>They would at times take us with them in their

-canoes, to catch fish, which they did by spearing,

-and with lines and hooks. Their lines were made

-of the fibres of the outside shell or husk of the

-cocoa-nuts; and the hooks were neatly made of

-tortoise shell.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>The number of Indians on this island amounted

-to about sixty. They were merely residing on the

-island during the fishing season; for their home,

-as I afterward found out, was a great distance off.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After remaining here, as near as I can recollect,

-three months, (for I had almost lost all remembrance

-of dates) the Indians separated. One party

-took me and William Doyley with them in a

-canoe; and George Doyley and Sexton stayed

-with the other party.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The party that took me along with them, set sail

-early in the morning, and about the middle of the

-day reached another small island to the northward,

-where we stayed a day and a night; it had a sandy

-beach. The next morning we left this island and

-went to another, which was very flat, and covered

-with low bushes; here we stayed a fortnight. We

-then sailed northward, stopping at other islands,

-as long as we could get food for the party; this

-food consisted of fish and wild fruits; our drink

-was water.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We came to one island where we stayed about

-a month, and from thence went to another, which

-the natives called Aroob, but which I afterwards

-learned was Darnley’s Island. This place I have

-very good reason to recollect; it was here that we

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>were first treated with some kindness by the natives.

-After staying here about a fortnight, we

-again embarked, returning by the way we had

-come, to an island called by the natives Sirreb,

-situated near to Aureed.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Poor little William seemed to wish to stop on

-any of the islands where we landed; and cried for

-a long time after being on board the canoe, to return

-to them.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After remaining on this island rather more than

-a week, a canoe, with some of the natives of Murray’s

-Island, came there. They bought us of our

-captors for two bunches of bananas. We did not

-leave the island for three days after we were

-bought; but in that time went in the canoe with

-our new masters, who treated us very kindly. I

-was pleased to find that poor little William began

-to become more cheerful.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>We returned by way of Darnley’s Island, stayed

-there a few days, and then went to Murray’s Island,

-where we afterwards lived until the period of our

-release by Captain Lewis, in the Isabella.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Upon our first landing on Murray’s Island, the

-natives flocked around us, wondering who we

-were. They began asking those who had brought

-us a great many questions, and speaking to us in a

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>language very nearly like that of the other natives,

-and which I was just beginning to understand.

-Some of the children were very much frightened

-at us, and ran away as soon as they saw us.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I soon learned that the name of the person who

-bought me was Dupper; and little William was

-given into the care of a native called Oby, who

-lived near Dupper’s hut. This man soon got very

-fond of the little boy, as the child also became of

-him; indeed he seemed here to have quite forgotten

-his mother and father.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>My name among these people, was Waki, and

-that of William, was Uass. I lived in the same

-hut with Dupper and his family, consisting of himself,

-his wife Panney, three sons, to all appearance

-young men, and two daughters, who were called

-Yope and Sarki.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>In this place I was made as comfortable as I

-could expect, under the circumstances in which I

-was placed; my wounds had continued open during

-my wanderings, but they now began to heal,

-and my appearance soon altered for the better. I

-had now gone through all that could be called suffering;

-but still I constantly wished that some European

-vessel would touch at that shore, and take

-me once more to see my friends and country.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>My new master (I should have called him father,

-for he behaved to me as kindly as he did to his

-sons,) gave me a canoe, about sixty feet long,

-which he purchased at New Guinea, (the island

-that forms one side of the straits, Australasia being

-the other,) for a large tomahawk and a bow and

-arrow. He also gave me a piece of ground, on

-which he taught me to grow yams, bananas, and

-cocoa-nuts. When we were not otherwise engaged,

-he taught me to shoot with the bow and

-arrow, and to spear fish.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Little William soon began to speak their language;

-and I also learned so much of it as to be

-able to converse in it with great ease; having

-no other than natives to speak to, it is more than

-probable that as I learned their language, I should

-have forgotten that of my native country.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Although William was in general more cheerful,

-he would now and then appear very uneasy. On

-these occasions, I used to ask Dupper to allow me

-to sleep along with the child. This made him

-much more happy. As soon as he could speak

-their language pretty freely, he would go down to

-the beach with the other children of the island;

-and the effect of the sun on his skin became very

-apparent. In a few months he could not be distinguished

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>by his color from the other children;

-his hair being the only thing by which he could be

-known at a distance, from its light color.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<img src='images/i_037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>The kind Murray Islander teaching John Ireland the use of the Bow and Arrow.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Murray’s Island is about two miles across, and

-contains about seven or eight hundred people.

-During my stay there, I never perceived any person

-who was in any manner above the rest of the

-natives, as regarded being a king, or chief, or any

-thing of that kind; but the whole of the inhabitants

-seem entirely independent of each other.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The houses or huts of the natives are something

-in the form of a bee-hive, with a hole in the side,

-even with the ground, and about two feet and a

-half in height, which serves for an entrance.

-When you go in, you must creep upon your hands

-and knees. They are made by placing a pole upright

-in the ground, and putting stakes round it in

-a circle at equal distances: these are then all bent

-inwards, and fastened together near the top of the

-pole, to which they are firmly bound.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The outside is then covered with dried banana

-leaves, which are very large. The entrance is

-merely a place in the side left uncovered. The

-pole, or supporter, is generally ornamented with

-shells; and at the top of it, which sticks out above

-the rest of the hut, they mostly fasten the largest

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>one they can find. Some of the huts have a quantity

-of skulls arranged round the inside.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Their canoes, or boats, are very large, mostly

-about fifty or sixty feet long, and some even larger

-than that. Two masts, opposite to each other,

-with a sail hanging between them, are placed

-nearly in the centre, but more towards the head

-of the canoe. The sail is made of plaited grass.

-When going with a side wind, they put one of the

-masts backwards, so that the sail stands slantingly.

-They use paddles of almost every shape; but the

-most general is merely a piece of wood cut flat,

-and broadest at the end which touches the water.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>They are expert in the use of the bow, which

-they call sireck; they make them of split bamboo;

-and they are so powerful that persons not accustomed

-to using the bow, would scarcely be able to

-bend them. Their arrows are pieces of wood

-made heavy at one end by a piece of stone or shell,

-sharpened at the end.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Their clubs are made of a hard black wood; the

-handle is made small, and has a knob at the end to

-prevent its slipping out of the hand.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>They are very fond of all sorts of European

-articles; especially beads, glass, red cloth, bottles,

-and particularly of iron, which they call ‘torre.’

-When they see a ship, they say directly, “We

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>will get some torre.” They think iron is found

-in the white men’s country in large rocks; and

-that we merely have to break pieces off as we want

-them.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Of all things, they were most inquisitive about

-fire-arms, which they call by the same name as

-they do their bows. Dupper told me that some of

-their people had been killed by them, and they

-never could see what struck them. But I could

-not explain to him the way that a gun was made,

-for I scarcely knew myself; all I could tell him I

-did, but this only made him the more curious.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Their usual way of catching fish is by spearing;

-but they also take the small ones with a kind of

-net, something like a sieve. One party disturbs

-the water, by beating it with long bamboo sticks,

-and so drive the fish towards the other, who then

-spear or net them. Lobsters are caught in the

-following manner: a party will get on a sandbank

-at night, some of them holding a bunch of

-lighted cocoa-nut leaves above their heads; the

-lobsters, seeing the light, leave their holes, and are

-then speared by the others.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Turtles abound on the islands, and are caught

-by the natives very dexterously. When they see

-them asleep on the water, a party of seven or

-eight go in a canoe, four of the party paddling very

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>slowly and silently towards them, the others squatting

-on the fore part of the canoe, with a rope

-fastened to their arms, and only their heads above

-the side of the canoe. Upon getting near enough,

-the parties in the canoe suddenly leap out, and

-catch the turtle by the fins; by which they are then

-hauled into the boat. I have seen three caught at

-one time in this manner.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After I had resided some months on this island,

-a native died in one of the huts near Dupper’s.

-Upon his telling me of the event, he said he was

-certain something very dreadful would happen

-soon. This remark of Dupper’s startled me; for

-it was the first death I had known on the island,

-and I could not help thinking of the fate of the

-crew of the Charles Eaton. An idea once or

-twice entered my mind that harm was intended to

-me on account of the death of this man; but Dupper

-treated me just the same as usual. Soon after

-sunset I went to rest, still feeling very uneasy. I

-had not lain very long, when I heard a noise, as of

-a person rattling shells, and breathing very hard.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Dupper uttered a short sentence in a language

-which I did not understand, and quite different

-from that of Murray’s Island, and then himself and

-all that were in the hut, hid their faces in the sand.

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>I asked Dupper what the noise was; he told me,

-the spirit of the dead man.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<img src='images/i_043.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>John Ireland sees the extraordinary apparitions which cause such superstitious terrors among the Murray Islanders.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>The next day, I and some of the natives, with

-little William, were sitting under a bamboo fence,

-close to the huts, when I heard the same noise a

-short distance off. On looking among the bushes,

-I saw two figures, the one red and the other white,

-with what appeared to be a fan over each of their

-heads. They began throwing stones at us; and

-the natives, who were about twenty in number,

-instead of getting up and driving them away, sat

-still, and seemed to be totally unnerved. The

-figures were very short, not larger than children

-fourteen years of age. I was told that they were

-the spirits of their departed friends.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I have since taken a great deal of trouble to ascertain

-what these figures were; for they made me

-very uneasy. I took particular notice of them at

-the time, and have searched through all the huts;

-but never could discover any traces of dresses similar

-to those worn by the figures.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The club is their principal weapon: with it they

-endeavor to strike the head; and one blow is generally

-fatal. Their spears, which they throw

-with great accuracy, are made of bamboo, with

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>points made of sharpened shells. They also use

-them in their hand with great dexterity.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Their bows are very dangerous instruments of

-warfare; as they sometimes poison their arrows.

-Being naked, they often get a slight scratch from

-one of these, and as they have no remedy for the

-poison, they die a painful and lingering death.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I was one afternoon sitting upon one of the hills

-in the island, when I saw a ship coming round a

-point of the island. My thoughts now turned

-upon the possibility of reaching this vessel, which

-approached nearer and nearer, and appeared as if

-intending to stop at the island. There was a

-merry-making in the village on that day: but my

-desire to leave the savage life, prevented me from

-taking part in it as usual; in fact, I wanted to draw

-the attention of those on board to myself before

-the natives should see her; but could not tell how

-to do so, the ship being so far off.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I did not attain my object, notwithstanding all

-my endeavors. As soon as the ship was observed,

-Dupper, as he usually did when a vessel came in

-sight, painted my body black, with a streak of red

-on the bridge of my nose, extending along my

-forehead, over each of my eye-brows. My ears

-having been pierced on my arrival at Murray’s Island,

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>his wife and daughters hung tassels, made of

-plaited grass, to them. They also put ornaments

-round my neck, body, arms, wrists, and ancles.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>When the ship came near enough to us for their

-glasses to make observations, the natives broke

-branches off the trees, and waved them. I did the

-same myself, and, to my unspeakable joy, saw her

-come near to the shore and drop her anchor. I

-then thought my deliverance certain; but was sadly

-disappointed that no boat came off to the shore.

-I went down to the beach along with Dupper and

-William, and some of the natives, but still no boat

-appeared, and I waited till the night set in.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Next morning, soon after sunrise, several canoes

-went away to the ship, Dupper and myself being

-in one of them; William was left on the island.

-We were in the third or fourth that got along-side

-and we dropped directly under the stern.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>A rope was thrown from the vessel into our

-canoe, and I caught hold of it, and tried to get on

-board by it. But I had sprained my wrist, by a

-fall, a day or two before, and waving the branch

-had made it exceedingly painful, so that I could

-not climb. One of the crew held out a roll of

-tobacco to me, but I could not reach it; so I asked

-him to lower the boat for me to get in.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>The captain and officers were at that time bartering

-with the natives for curiosities and tortoise

-shell; they had one of the cutters lowered, but put

-their pistols and naked cutlasses into it. When

-the natives saw that, they thought mischief was

-intended to me and to themselves; they immediately

-let go the rope, and paddled towards the

-shore. I stood up in the canoe; but Dupper took

-hold of me and laid me down in the middle of it.

-The boat rowed a little way after us and then returned

-to the vessel.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>A few hours afterwards, the boat came close to

-the beach, with, I believe, the captain on board, to

-shoot birds. One of the natives took little William

-on his shoulders, and went down to the beach,

-he walked towards the boat, and beckoned to the

-crew to come and take him.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I had often mentioned to the natives that the

-white people would give them axes, and bottles,

-and iron, for the little boy; I told them his relations

-were rich, and would be glad to give them

-a great deal if they would let them have him back.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>

-<img src='images/i_050.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>The kind Murray Islander surprised and delighted at perceiving iron can be bent by fire.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'>The captain made signs for the natives to go

-nearer to the boat; for he stopped at some distance;

-but neither party would approach the other,

-and the boat soon after returned to the vessel. I

-was kept among the bushes all this time, by Dupper

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>and his sons: but I could plainly see every

-thing that took place. The ship sailed next morning,

-and we were both left on the island. All my

-hopes of deliverance by means of this vessel, were

-thus put an end to.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>This vessel’s sailing without me, made such an

-impression upon my mind, that for three or four

-days I could eat no food, and at length became extremely

-ill. I think at times I was light-headed,

-for I did not know what I was doing. When I

-got better, which was in about a week, the idea

-that I should end my days among the savages settled

-upon me, and I became quite melancholy.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>My health after this began visibly to decline;

-and it grieved me to see William was also getting

-thin and sickly; for I had no remedy in case of

-illness. Nor did I ever see the natives make use

-of any thing either to prevent or cure diseases to

-which they are subject.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>One morning, Dupper was trying to straighten

-a piece of an iron bolt, and was heating it very hard

-with a large piece of stone, without being able to

-make any impression upon it. I told him to make

-a large fire, and put the iron into it, which would

-soften it. He did so, and his astonishment was

-very great when he found it answer the purpose.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>He was very much pleased with me for this discovery,

-and often told the other natives of it.

-Almost all of them had a piece of iron, obtained

-from the different wrecks which had happened on

-the island, or by trading with the Europeans; and

-we were after this frequently employed in straightening

-or altering the shape of these iron articles, as

-it might suit the various fancies of their owners.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After we had been about a year on Murray’s

-Island, Dupper told me that the natives intended

-to go on a trading voyage to Dowder, (this I afterwards

-learned was the name they called New

-Guinea,) and I was to be one of the party.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>For this journey, twelve large canoes about sixty

-feet long, each containing from ten to sixteen

-persons, men, and women, and children, were

-prepared. As many shells as the natives could

-collect were put into the canoes, and we set sail.

-The natives of New Guinea wear these shells for

-ornaments; and in return for them, the Murray

-Islanders get canoes, bows and arrows and feathers.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>When we came to Darnley’s Island, Dupper

-left me in the charge of a native of that place,

-named Agge, telling me he was afraid that the

-New Guinea people would steal or murder me.

-The party did not stay long on this island, for the

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>next morning they left me, not expecting to see

-them again for a month.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>How great was my surprise, when on the following

-evening, Dupper returned to the island

-where he had left me. I asked him whether he

-had changed all his shells so quickly, or whether

-any thing serious had happened, that he had come

-back so soon.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>He told me that they stopped at an island called

-Jarmuth, to pass the night, and that a quarrel ensued

-between one of the natives of that island, and

-a Murray Islander, named Newboo, and Dupper’s

-two nephews, about a pipe of tobacco. Another

-of the natives of Jarmuth had attempted to take

-from one of the Murray Islanders his moco, an

-ornament worn round the calf of the leg, made of

-the bark of bamboo.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>These outrages had caused a fight with bows

-and arrows, in which several of the Jarmuth

-people were wounded, and one of them shot

-through the body; but none of the Murray Islanders

-were hurt. On this account the voyage was

-not taken, but we all returned to Murray’s Island.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>About three days after this, the Jarmuth people

-sent a message offering peace; but it was not accepted,

-and they were still unreconciled when I

-came away.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>The time of our deliverance, however, which

-we had so long given up as hopeless, was now near

-at hand. The years we had passed among the

-savages had not taken from my memory the scenes

-of home, and happiness, and England; but since

-the departure of the last vessel that touched at the

-shore of the island, the thoughts of my friends and

-relations had come to my remembrance as forcibly

-as if it was only the day before that had been passed

-in their company, and in my mind it was but

-a week since events of the most pleasing kind had

-happened; and I had brooded over these reflections

-till my body had wasted to a mere skeleton,

-through the melancholy exertions of my mind;

-aided, no doubt, by the sickness which neglect,

-thus involuntarily induced, had attacked my weakened

-frame.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I used to delight to tell William about his father

-and mother; how they left a far off country in a

-large canoe; and of the storm, when he was nearly

-killed; how his mother kissed and fondled him

-to her bosom, when I brought him to her. Then

-that he had a brother, who came with us in the

-ship and played with him, till in the storm the

-ship was wrecked and broke to pieces; how we all

-were nearly starved to death; and at last escaped

-on the rafts; that his father and mother, and nurse,

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>with many more men, were killed by the natives

-of Boydan: and we had left his brother there

-among the savages, and had not seen them since;

-and of Dupper’s buying us, and bringing us to this

-island, and how kind he was.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>These recitals would bring tears into the eyes of

-my young wondering listener, showing that the

-impression was made upon his mind. How his

-tears pleased me! His simple questions upon these

-occasions were answered with an eagerness which

-showed with what deepness thought had fixed

-them on my memory. I need not add, how these

-things made me love the infant that God had thus

-thrown, as I thought, into my charge; nor how I

-resolved to endeavor, as far as my means would

-enable me, to cherish and protect him in his helplessness.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I had asked Dupper to enquire what had become

-of George Doyley and John Sexton, if he should

-at any time happen to meet with one of the natives

-of Boydan. He could not learn any tidings for a

-long time; but at length he told me that he understood

-they were both dead.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Some time after this, I heard two of the natives

-conversing, and one of them said that the youngest

-white boy at Boydan, (this was George Doyley,)

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>had got sick and died; and that the other one

-(John Sexton,) had been speared by one of the

-natives.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>One evening, Dupper’s brother was obliged to

-leave his house to do some business, and some of

-Dupper’s family, with myself, were asked to go

-there to take care of it during his absence. This

-house was on the hills.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The next morning, I saw a vessel come round

-the point of the island, and soon after drop her anchor

-near the shore. I immediately went down to

-the beach, where I saw several canoes paddling off.

-I attempted to get into one of them, but Dupper

-would not let me. I tried very hard to prevail on

-him to let me go, but for some time he would not

-consent. He told me to hide myself among the

-trees on the hills, for he was sure the people on

-board the ship would kill me.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>After much persuasion, upon my telling him

-that I did not want to leave him, but only to procure

-some axes and other articles, he with reluctance

-allowed me to get into his canoe. We then

-went off to the ship. I was fearful lest some misunderstanding

-should take place, so I asked Dupper

-to request silence until I had spoken with the

-people in the ship. The natives accordingly did

-not speak.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>When we got within a short distance, a person

-hailed me, and asked what ship I came out in.

-I answered, “In the Charles Eaton.” He then

-asked me whether there were any more white people

-on the island? I replied, “Only a child about

-four or five years old.” He then told me to come

-along-side, which I did, and was then taken on

-board.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>My agitation was so great, that I could scarcely

-answer the questions which were put to me; and

-it was some time before I recovered my self-possession.

-Captain Lewis took me down into the

-cabin, and gave me a shirt, a pair of trowsers, and

-a straw hat. He ordered some bread and cheese

-and beer for me; but the thoughts of again revisiting

-my home and friends prevented me from eating

-much of it.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>He asked me what had become of the remaining

-passengers and crew. I told him, as near as I

-could, all that had happened; that they were all

-murdered, with the exception of five men who had

-escaped in a cutter. He then told me that his

-ship had been fitted out in search of us. For this

-kindness on the part of government, I can not

-enough express my sincere thanks, and my sorrow

-that it should meet with so small a return.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>Dupper and several of the natives had come on

-board, and Captain Lewis told me to desire them

-to bring William. They said he was on the other

-side of the island, (this was the case,) but that they

-would bring him the next day. Captain Lewis

-then said that he would allow no trading till the

-child was on board. Most of the natives returned

-to the island in the evening; and those that remained,

-slept on deck, with a sail to cover them.

-Dupper and Oby were allowed to sleep with me.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Next day, the natives made a great many excuses

-against bringing William on board; they said he

-was crying, and would not leave the women. I

-told them that unless they brought him, they would

-not be allowed to trade. About the middle of the

-day he was brought. At first, he seemed frightened

-at the strangers, and did not like parting with

-his old black friends; but I did my best to pacify

-him, and he soon became used to the new faces.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>One of the sailors made him a frock and trowsers,

-and another gave him a cap; he looked very

-curious in them, but at first they made him uncomfortable.

-I have the cap now in my possession.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The natives of these islands are much given to

-pilfering. One of them was seen taking a knife,

-and was immediately sent out of the ship. I saw

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>Dupper steal a pair of compasses, but I said nothing

-about it to any one: I did not like to offend

-him.</p>

-

-<div  class='figcenter id003'>

-<img src='images/i_059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />

-<div class='ic003'>

-<p><i>The kind Murray Islander taking leave of the Orphans.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</p>

-</div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>The next night, Captain Lewis amused the islanders

-with a display of rockets, and firing of

-great guns, with which they were highly delighted.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Before the ship sailed, Dupper went and collected

-a quantity of cocoa-nuts, yams, and tobacco,

-which he brought on board for me. He then

-asked who was to have the care of my canoe, bow

-and arrows, and other articles? I said, his son

-Bowdoo; with which he seemed very well satisfied.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>He seemed to feel pained at parting; he cried,

-hugged me, and then cried again; at last he told

-me to come back soon, and bring him plenty of

-things, and not to forget ‘torre’. I then bade farewell

-to the poor old man, and the rest of the natives,

-who patted and fondled William in his new

-dress, and on Tuesday, the 28th of June, at about

-eight o’clock in the morning, we left Murray’s

-Island.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>The Isabella schooner had been fitted out to

-search the islands for the white people who had

-been shipwrecked in the Charles Eaton, or might

-be left on them from any shipwreck. I went with

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>the vessel to all those islands they had not searched

-before they discovered us; and my speaking

-the language was of great service.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>On one of the islands, we found a figure made

-of tortoise shell, painted something like a man’s

-face, round which were tied forty-five skulls.

-These we took on board. We observed that they

-were more or less injured. Several of them were

-supposed to have belonged to Europeans, and one

-to a woman.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Our voyage was prosperous, and we arrived

-at Sidney without any accident. Great excitement

-had been caused in this place by the melancholy

-disappearance of so many persons; and the

-rumor of our story, and of the fate of the Charles

-Eaton and crew, made William and myself objects

-of great curiosity.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I was taken to the governor of the colony, Sir

-Richard Bourke; to whom I related as much of

-this narrative as I could recollect. I had forty

-shillings given to me by the captain of the Japan,

-a whaler that we passed on our journey home.

-This money enabled me to buy some clothes. Sir

-Richard Bourke placed some money in the hands

-of a person in Sidney, to defray my expenses during

-the time I stayed there; the remainder of

-<span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>which sum I have received since my arrival in

-London.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>A lady named Mrs. Slade, whose husband is a

-government officer in Sidney, hearing that the

-name of one of the boys brought by the Isabella

-was Doyley, made inquiries respecting him, and

-found that he was the son of an old and esteemed

-friend. She immediately requested permission to

-take charge of poor William; who was accordingly

-given into her charge.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Our health, which had been improving during

-the passage home, now began to recover quickly.

-We had every attention paid to us that was possible;

-our cancers were subjected to medical treatment,

-and in a few weeks I was completely cured.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I stayed here five months, hoping to accompany

-William to England; but a boy threw a stone at

-him, which severely hurt his head, and threw him

-again on a bed of sickness, and deferred his departure.

-At the time I left, he was recovering

-fast.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>Not wishing to be longer dependent on the

-bounty of any person, and an opportunity offering,

-of a situation on board the Florentia, commanded

-by Captain Deloitte, bound to London, I took my

-farewell of William and my other kind friends, and

-went on board in the month of February.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>We set sail, and experienced a little rough

-weather on our passage, but arrived in London

-without accident, in August.</p>

-

-<p class='c000'>I had now been absent from England nearly

-four years; and it is impossible to describe my

-feelings when again putting my foot upon its long-desired

-ground; none but those similarly situated

-can understand them. All I wish the kind reader

-to do, is to avoid the savages of Boydan, but lend

-a helping hand to civilize the kind natives of Murray’s

-Island, and the Indians of Torres Straits.</p>

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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Shipwrecked Orphans, by John  Ireland
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+Title: The Shipwrecked Orphans
+       A true narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of John
+              Ireland and William Doyley, who were wrecked in the ship
+              Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas
+
+Author: John  Ireland
+
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+<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber’s Note:</strong></p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p>
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+<img src='images/i_001.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
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+<div>
+  <h1 class='c001'>THE<br /> SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS:<br /> A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE<br /> SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS<br /> OF<br /> JOHN IRELAND AND WILLIAM DOYLEY,<br /> WHO WERE WRECKED IN THE<br /> SHIP CHARLES EATON,<br /> ON AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SEAS.</h1>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c002'>
+    <div>WRITTEN BY JOHN IRELAND.</div>
+    <div class='c002'>NEW HAVEN.</div>
+    <div class='c002'>PUBLISHED BY S. BABCOCK.</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c003'><i>TO MY YOUNG READERS.</i></h2>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id002'>
+<img src='images/i_002.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l c004'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><i>My dear little Friends</i>:</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'>For this volume of <span class='sc'>Teller’s Tales</span>, I have
+selected the “<span class='sc'>Shipwrecked Orphans</span>, a True Narrative of the
+Sufferings of John Ireland” and a little child, named William Doyley,
+who were unfortunately wrecked in the ship Charles Eaton, of London,
+and lived for several years with the natives of the South Sea
+Islands. The remainder of the passengers and crew of this ill-fated
+ship, were most inhumanly murdered by the savages soon after they
+landed from the wreck. The Narrative was written by one of the
+Orphans, John Ireland, and I give it to you in nearly his own words,
+having made but few alterations in the style in which he tells the
+story of their sufferings.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The people of some of the South Sea Islands, are of a very cruel
+disposition; some of them are cannibals; that is, they eat the flesh of
+those unfortunate persons who may happen to be shipwrecked on their
+Islands, or whom they may take prisoners of war. Others, on the contrary,
+show the greatest kindness to strangers in distress. May the
+time soon come when civilization and the Christian religion shall
+reach all these benighted savages, and teach them to relieve the distressed,
+and to regard the unfortunate as their brethren.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>As very little is yet known of the manners and customs of these
+savage tribes, I trust this Narrative will prove both interesting and
+instructive to you all; and I hope you will feel grateful that,—unlike
+the sufferers in this story,—you are surrounded with the comforts of
+life, and have kind parents and friends to watch over you and defend
+you from the dangers and miseries to which these poor Orphans
+were so long exposed.</p>
+
+<div class='lg-container-r'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>Your old friend and well-wisher,</div>
+      <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thomas Teller</span>.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-l'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'><i>Roseville Hall</i>, 1844.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c002' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span>
+  <h2 class='c003'><span class='large'>THE</span><br /> SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS.</h2>
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id002'>
+<img src='images/i_003.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<p class='c005'>Having obtained a situation as assistant in the
+cabin of the ship Charles Eaton, I went on board
+on the 28th of September, 1833, to assist in preparing
+for the voyage. In the month of December
+following, I had the misfortune to fall into the
+dock, and not being able to swim, narrowly escaped
+drowning; but through the exertions of Mr.
+Clare, the chief officer of the ship, I was with difficulty
+saved.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>About the 19th of December, we left the dock,
+with a cargo mostly of lead and calico. Our crew
+consisted of the following persons: Frederick
+Moore, commander; Robert Clare, chief mate;
+William Major, second mate, Messrs. Ching and
+Perry, midshipmen; Mr. Grant, surgeon: Mr.
+Williams, sail-maker; William Montgomery,
+steward; Lawrence Constantyne, carpenter;
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>Thomas Everitt, boatswain; John Barry, George
+Lawn, James Millar, James Moore, John Carr,
+Francis Hower, William Jefferies, Samuel Baylett,
+Charles Robertson, and Francis Quill, seamen;
+and John Sexton, and myself, boys. The
+passengers were, Mr. Armstrong, a native of Ireland,
+and twenty-five male and female children
+from the Emigration Society, with some other
+steerage passengers.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We had a favorable passage down the river to
+Gravesend, where we took leave of our pilot.
+A pilot is a person who takes charge of the ships
+in those parts of rivers where they are dangerous.
+On the 23d of December we went on our voyage,
+passing Deal on the 25th, and arrived at Cowes, in
+the Isle of Wight, on the 27th.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The wind here proved contrary, and we were
+detained in the harbor until the 4th of January,
+1834; when, as we were attempting to quit, a
+schooner ran against our vessel and broke off our
+bowsprit and jib-boom, and did other damage to
+her. The bowsprit is the mast that sticks out in
+front of the ship, and the jib-boom is the top joint
+of the bowsprit. We were therefore obliged to
+remain there until the repairing of the ship was
+completed; and on the 1st of February left Cowes.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>
+<img src='images/i_006.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>Manner in which the Murray Islanders spearfish—a female assisting.</i><br />See Page <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>This accident caused great alarm among the passengers,
+and more especially among the children;
+indeed it was well that we escaped as we did; for
+even in our own harbors in England, ships are often
+in great danger.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We arrived at Falmouth, near Land’s-end in
+Cornwall, on the 5th of February; and having on
+the 8th completed our cargo, left England with a
+good wind, and every prospect of a happy voyage.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>About the latter end of March, we crossed the
+Equator; that is, that part of the world where the
+sun is over head and makes no shadow; here we
+went through the usual ceremony of paying tribute
+to Neptune, to the great amusement of the passengers.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We came to the Cape of Good Hope, which is
+in Africa, on the 1st of May, and here we landed
+several of our passengers; we again set sail, on the
+4th, for Hobart’s Town, in Australia, upwards  of
+twenty thousand miles from England, where we
+arrived on the 16th of June; at this place we bade
+farewell to our young emigrants, and some of the
+passengers.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>On the 8th of July, Captain and Mrs. Doyley,
+with their two sons, George and William, the one
+about seven or eight years old, and the other about
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>fourteen months, came on board as passengers to
+Sourabaya, intending to go from thence to Calcutta,
+in the East Indies. William, the youngest, was
+my unfortunate companion.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Nothing particular occurred after our leaving
+Hobart’s Town, till we arrived in Sidney, in New
+South Wales, on the 13th of July. There we took
+in some ballast; that is, heavy articles which are
+put in the bottom of the ship to keep it from turning
+over with the wind. Our boatswain, Mr.
+Everitt, left us at Sidney, and we took on board in
+his stead Mr. Pigot, and two or three seamen.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We set sail for China on the 29th. An accident
+happened two or three days after leaving the town,
+which almost caused the death of our excellent
+chief officer, Mr. Clare. An anchor is an iron instrument
+affixed to the end of a long chain, and is
+used to keep ships in one place. It generally
+hangs at the bows, or fore part of the vessel. The
+men were getting the anchor in its proper place,
+and Mr. Clare was helping them; on a sudden, the
+wood of the implement which he was using broke,
+and he fell into the sea. We immediately stopped
+work, and let down the boat, and he being an excellent
+swimmer, was able to keep up till the boat
+reached him. We were at that time going about
+six miles an hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>We sailed this time with fine weather and good
+winds, and made the entrance to Torres Straits, a
+narrow passage between two islands in the Southern
+Ocean, on the 14th of August, in the evening.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The wind now began to blow rather hard; so
+much so that the captain thought it necessary to
+take in some of the sails, and would not attempt to
+go on during the dark. However, at daylight on
+the next morning we again set sail, although the
+wind was very high, and the water getting rough,
+that is, forming itself into large waves.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The wind continued to increase till about ten
+o’clock in the morning, when the ship struck on a
+reef called the “Detached Reef.” A reef is a
+number of rocks in the water, at a short distance
+from the land, over which the water just rises, without
+leaving room enough for a ship to pass. The
+Detached Reef was near the entrance of Torres
+Straits.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>So violent was the shock, that the rudder (that by
+which a ship is guided,) and the keel, (that ledge
+which runs along the bottom of the ship,) were
+both knocked off, and the captain gave it as his
+opinion that nothing could save the ship.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The chief mate cut away the masts, in order to
+lighten her; but without effect, and we then found
+that the bottom was broken in, at which place the
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>water soon made an entrance, and completely
+spoiled every thing she contained. The high and
+swelling waves broke completely over her, and in a
+short time the vessel was a perfect wreck.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>It was happy for us that the upper part kept together
+as it did, though there was so much danger,
+from the water rising, that every one expected to be
+washed over. There was plainly to be heard above
+the din of the wind and sea, the horrible groaning
+of the planks forming the sides of the ship, between
+which the water rushed as through a sieve; and as
+they were one by one broken away from the ill-fated
+vessel, we felt that we were approaching nearer
+to a death from which we could not hope to escape,
+unless by some merciful interposition of Divine
+Goodness we should be rescued from our watery
+enemy.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Nor were these thoughts lessened by seeing that
+ours was not the only vessel that had cause to repent
+the dangerous and almost unknown navigation of
+these straits. About three or four miles from us, to
+the windward, or that side from which the wind
+blows, we observed a ship high and dry, that is,
+lying out of water, upon the reefs; she had her
+masts standing, her royal yards across, and her sails
+set; in which state she had seemingly been left by
+her crew.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>At the time of the vessel striking, Mrs. Doyley
+was taking coffee in the cabin, and her infant was
+asleep in one of the berths, little dreaming to what
+future ills his weak and helpless frame was to be
+exposed.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The distracted mother instantly ran on deck in
+alarm; and I went into the cabin, where I saw the
+poor child washed out of its berth, and crying on
+the floor. I took him to Mrs. Doyley, who, after
+that time, for the seven long days which were occupied
+in making the raft, could not by any means
+be persuaded to give up her dear charge.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Upon finding how the ship was situated, Captain
+Moore ordered the boats to be got ready, and furnished
+with provisions, in order, if possible, to
+save the ship’s company, and reach the island of
+Timor, regretting the stern necessity which urged
+him to such a step in such a sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I once heard Captain Moore declare that he was
+sorry he had not made use of his own chart, instead
+of one that he bought at Sidney, lest there might
+be any mistake in his own.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We were in possession of four boats; the long
+boat, two cutters, and a small boat called a dingy.
+Three of the seamen seized one of the cutters; and
+two others got on board of it next morning by swimming
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>across the reef at the imminent peril of their
+lives. A little biscuit, a ham, and a keg of water,
+with some carpenters’ tools, had been placed in the
+boat on its leaving the ship. As soon as the two
+men had got into the boat, they rowed away, and I
+have never heard any tidings of them since.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The persons remaining on board the wreck now
+held a consultation as to what was best to be done
+in this miserable state of their affairs. There were
+about thirty persons, without sufficient provisions
+to sustain life, much less satisfy the cravings of
+hunger, for a month, without any fresh water, and
+with no prospect of escape from their forlorn condition.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Every care was requisite to prevent the least
+excess or extravagance. We were all put upon
+allowance of a few damaged pieces of biscuit and
+two wine-glassfuls of water per day, during the
+seven days of making the raft, which was our only
+hope, and on which we went to work with all the
+energy our desperate state allowed us. A raft is
+formed of pieces of wood roughly fastened together,
+so that it will float on the water; some have been
+made large enough to hold a hundred and fifty
+people.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>The poop, or raised part of the deck, and one
+side of the forecastle, or front part, being washed
+away, the small part of it that remained was so
+crowded that we were almost always in one another’s
+way, although as many as could were working
+at the raft. All the provision that we could save,
+and that was very little, and all the materials wanted
+for our work, were obliged to be put on this
+small space, for the water rose four feet higher than
+the deck below, and broke away some of the planks
+and timbers every time the tide rose.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>As the tide went down, we dived into the body
+of the ship, to try to get some of the ship’s stores,
+and with the hopeless idea of getting something to
+satisfy our hunger; but the bottom was so washed
+away that the hold could not contain any thing
+which might have been in it at the time of the
+storm.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Mrs. Doyley and her husband gave every stimulus
+to exertion; and the kind manner in which
+they requested us to make use of any of their
+clothes, part of which were the only ones saved, I
+shall ever remember with gratitude.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We managed, however, to distil a small quantity
+of water, of which a cask and a few bottles were
+saved for the raft, by boiling it in the ship’s coppers,
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>and leading the steam by means of a pipe,
+through the quarter galley cistern, and catching the
+water thus made in a cask. The supply of this
+valuable article thus procured, small as it was, we
+found to be one of our greatest helps during our
+stay upon the wreck.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The raft was completed, as well as the difficulties
+that we had to overcome would permit, in
+seven days; and the water, with a cask of pork
+and some biscuit, being put upon it, we all followed;
+but it was not sufficiently buoyant for all; that is, it
+was not light enough to keep us up; so the greater
+part of us returned to the wreck, leaving upon the
+raft, the captain, Mr. Moore; the surgeon, Mr.
+Grant; Captain and Mrs. Doyley, and their two
+children; their black nurse, a native of India; and
+Mr. Armstrong, with two seamen, named Lowine
+and Berry; who determined to remain on it all
+night.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>In the morning, however, we found the rope by
+which the raft had been made fast to the stern or
+back part of the vessel was cut, and we could see
+nothing of our late companions.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>It is probable that the uncomfortable situation
+in which they were placed, up to their waists in
+water, induced Captain Moore to cut the rope, and
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>trust to the wind and sea to carry them to a place
+of safety. The gale had abated, and the sea lulled,
+during the time we were making the raft.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<img src='images/i_015.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>The unhappy crew got on the raft, cut the rope and bade adieu to the wreck of the Charles Eaton.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>Those who had returned on board set to work to
+make another raft of the ship’s topmasts, lashed or
+tightly tied together with rope. A topmast is the
+top joint of a mast. We also made a sail of some
+of the cloth of the ship’s cargo.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We worked with the greatest diligence, but did
+not complete it for about a week. We then got
+upon it, with all the food we could get, which was
+only a few pieces of damaged biscuit; we cut the
+rope, and bade adieu to the wreck of the Charles
+Eaton.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>What our feelings were at that time, I can scarcely
+describe. The fear that the adventure we had
+undertaken would not turn out to advantage; the
+certainty of death if we remained; the hope of again
+reaching our native country, were each brought in
+turn to mind, and acting upon our already half-starved
+condition, made us almost incapable of
+using the little strength of which we had not been
+deprived, and we took our places on the raft in a
+silence which showed the height of our despair.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The vessel that we saw with her masts standing,
+was too far off to windward for us to reach; I do
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>not think a boat could have been rowed up to her,
+against the wind and tide, which were both against
+us, and the current running very strong, so we gave
+up the idea as hopeless.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>As soon as we had cast off, we set our sail, and
+steered along with the wind; but our raft was so
+heavy and deep that the progress we made was very
+slow. We drifted, rather than sailed, and that at
+a rate of not more than a mile or a mile and a half
+an hour.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We came to a reef, upon which we stayed all
+night; the next morning we again set sail on our
+perilous voyage before the wind, but saw no more
+reefs. We were two more days and nights upon
+the raft, up to our waists in water, and with a very
+small allowance of food. This was soon all eaten.
+We then passed an island, and saw several more
+ahead.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Soon after we had passed the first island, we
+saw a canoe paddling towards us, containing ten or
+twelve native Indians. A canoe is a rude kind of
+Indian boat. As they came towards us, they extended
+their arms, which we supposed meant that
+they were unarmed, and wished to be friendly.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>On their reaching the raft, several of them got
+upon it, and were gently put back by Mr. Clare;
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>he at the same time saying that he thought from
+their manners that they were not to be trusted.
+They were very stout men, and quite naked.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>An event happened, which, at another time,
+would have afforded much amusement, but now,
+was a serious loss. One of the Indians, attracted
+no doubt by a piece of white cloth that was hanging
+to the top of our mast, climbed up it; when the
+desired cloth was within his reach, the mast broke,
+and he was thrown into the sea, without receiving
+any injury.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We gave the natives a looking glass and a piece
+of red cloth, with which they appeared very much
+pleased, and began to make signs to us to get into
+their canoe. We at first hesitated to do so, until
+Mr. Ching, the midshipman, said he would go; as
+he thought by that means to get sooner to England;
+at any rate, he said, he could not be worse
+off.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Upon his going into the canoe, we all agreed to
+go too, and left the raft; on which the Indians
+commenced a strict search for iron and tools; but
+could find nothing but a few old hoops. These
+they collected and put into the canoe.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>It was about four in the afternoon when we left
+the raft; and after passing three islands on our
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>right, and one on our left, we landed on an island
+which I afterwards found the natives called Boydan.
+We could plainly see the main land, about
+fourteen or fifteen miles distant. The island was
+very small.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>As soon as we landed, we made signs that we
+were hungry. The natives went with us round
+the island in search of food and water. We were
+unsuccessful; not having found so much as a drop
+of water. When we returned to the place where
+we landed, hunger and fatigue had so completely
+exhausted us that we could scarcely walk.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The Indians now began to show signs of their
+ferocious disposition. They stood around us,
+grinning and yelling in a most hideous manner, as
+though delighting in the success of their schemes,
+and feeling fresh delight at our showing how great
+was our increasing pain.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Mr. Clare now said we had better prepare for
+the worst; indeed it was very plain that the Indians
+were only watching an opportunity to kill us.
+He read some prayers from a book which he had
+brought from the wreck; and we all most heartily
+joined with him in supplication. We felt that
+probably it would be our last and only opportunity
+while here on earth.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>
+<img src='images/i_022.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>The savages of Boydan treacherously murdering the crew of the Charles Eaton while they are sleeping.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>How true is the admonition which warns us that
+“in the midst of life we are in death.” But little
+did the wanderers who set out in the frail vessel,
+in all the gaiety of health and strength, imagine
+what was to be their melancholy fate, what would
+be their sufferings, or what the horrible termination
+of their existence.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After having spent some time in prayer, we threw
+ourselves on the ground, in expectation of being
+killed. Although it will readily be imagined we
+were little in heart disposed to slumber, yet such
+was the state to which we were reduced, that most
+of us fell almost immediately into a sound sleep.
+The natives, seeing us lying down, appeared anxious
+that we should go to sleep; which they signified
+to us by putting their head on one shoulder,
+and closing their eyes.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I felt quite sure, from one thing, that mischief
+was intended. I saw one of the natives advance
+from a canoe in a strange manner; stealing cautiously
+along with a club in his hand, hid as he
+thought from our sight, behind his back, and
+which he dropped upon the beach. I told this to
+the seaman, Carr, who was lying next to me; but
+he, being very sleepy, seem to take no notice of it,
+and soon after was in a deep sleep. Not long after
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>this, I observed with dread, that as the people fell
+asleep, a native placed himself between every two
+of us; yet I was so overcome with weariness and
+weakness, I fell asleep too. This I have no doubt,
+was for the more easy execution of the horrid purpose
+they intended, that of murdering us, without
+giving us a chance for escape or defence. It was
+utterly out of our power to resist; as we had not
+so much as a staff or stick to defend ourselves with;
+and our exhaustion was too great to allow us to
+quit the place where we then were.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>About as near as I can guess, an hour after I
+had been asleep, I was awoke by a terrible shouting
+and noise. I instantly arose, and on looking round,
+I saw the natives killing my companions by dashing
+out their brains with clubs. The first that was
+killed was Mr. Ching, and after him his companion,
+Mr. Perry; the next victim was Mr. Major,
+the second officer.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The confusion now became terrible, and my
+agitation at beholding the horrid scene was so
+great that do I not distinctly remember what passed
+after this. The last person that I recollect seeing
+alive was Mr. Clare; who in an attempt to escape,
+was overtaken and immediately murdered by a
+blow on the head.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>Myself and John Sexton were now the only two remaining
+alive. An Indian came to me with a
+carving knife in his hand, which I could see belonged
+to the cabin, and recollected its being put
+on the first raft. He seized me, and tried to cut
+my throat; but I grasped the blade of the knife in
+my right hand, and held it fast. I struggled hard
+for my life. He at last threw me down, and placing
+his knee upon my breast, tried to wrench the
+knife out of my hand; but I still kept it, though
+one of my fingers was cut to the bone. I at last
+succeeded in getting upon him, and then I let go
+my hold, and ran into the sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I swam out a little way; but the only chance for
+my life being to return to shore, I landed again,
+expecting to be killed on the spot. The same
+Indian then came towards me in a furious manner,
+and shot an arrow at me, which struck me in my
+right breast. On a sudden, however, he, very
+much to my surprise, became quite calm, and led,
+or rather dragged me to a little distance, and offered
+me some fish. This, hungry as I was, I
+was afraid to eat lest it should be poisoned.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>During my stay with these people, I have frequently
+seen them fly into a violent rage, and recover
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>themselves in a moment, becoming quite
+calm, as was the case with the man who had tried
+to take my life.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Whilst struggling with the Indian, I saw Sexton,
+who was held by another, bite a piece out of his
+arm. After that, I knew nothing of him, until I
+found that his life was spared in a manner something
+similar to my own.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Not very far off, the other savages were dancing
+round a large fire, before which they had placed in
+a row, the heads of our unfortunate companions,
+whose bodies, after being stripped of their clothes,
+were left on the beach, and I should think the tide
+soon washed them away, for I never saw them afterwards.
+From these heads, I saw the savages,
+every now and then, cut pieces of flesh from the
+cheeks, and pluck out the eyes, and eat them,
+shouting most hideously. This, I afterwards
+learned, it was the custom of these islanders to do
+with their prisoners; they think that it will give
+them courage, and excite them to revenge themselves
+upon their enemies.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Sexton and myself were taken up to the fire,
+where some of the natives sat like tailors, dividing
+the clothes and other articles which they had taken
+from the bodies of the persons killed. We were
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>given into the care of two of the natives, who covered
+us with a sort of mat, that formed the sail of
+the canoe. My wounds, which were still bleeding
+very much, they did not pay the least attention to.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>
+<img src='images/i_028.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>Horrible and cruel ceremony of the Boydan Islanders.</i><br />See Page <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>It is impossible for me to describe our feelings
+during this dreadful night. We fully expected,
+every moment, to share the fate of those whom we
+had so lately seen cruelly murdered. We prayed
+together for some time, and after each promising to
+call on the other’s relations, should either ever escape,
+we took leave of each other, giving ourselves
+up for lost.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>At length the morning came; and the Indians,
+after having collected all the heads, took us with
+them in their canoes to another island, which they
+called Pullan, where the women lived. On landing,
+I saw Captain Doyley’s two children, and a Newfoundland
+dog, called Portland, which belonged to
+the ship.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The Indians took us to some open huts which
+they had in the island, and placed us before a fire;
+I saw there the gown worn by Mrs. Doyley at the
+time she left the wreck, the steward’s watch and
+white hat, and several other articles of clothing,
+which belonged to those of the crew who left the
+ship in the first raft.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>Near the huts a pole was stuck in the ground,
+around which were hung the heads of our unfortunate
+companions. Among them I plainly recognized
+Mrs. Doyley’s, for they had left part of the
+hair on it; and I knew Captain Moore’s by the
+face.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Every morning about sunrise, and every evening
+at sunset, one of the natives went close to the pole,
+and blew seven or eight times through a large shell;
+which made a noise somewhat like blowing through
+a cow’s horn; at the same time looking up steadfastly
+at the heads.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After this, the other people decked themselves
+with the green branches of trees, and some painted
+or rather rubbed their bodies over with a kind of
+ochre, of a red color and white, and came to the
+pole with great parade, holding their clubs and
+spears. Then they made a sort of corrobory, or
+dance; but I could not trace any signs of religion
+in these ceremonies, nor detect any thing like reverence
+paid to the pole.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I asked George Doyley what had become of his
+father and mother? He told me that they were
+both killed by the blacks, as well as all those who
+went away from the ship in the first raft, excepting
+himself and his little brother.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>The little fellow gave a very distinct account of
+the dreadful transaction. He said he was so frightened
+when he saw his father killed by a blow on the
+head from a club, that he hardly knew what he did;
+but when his mother was killed in the same way, he
+thought they would kill him and his little brother
+too, and then he hoped they should all go to heaven
+together. I then told him that all the crew, except
+myself and Sexton, were murdered.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After we had been on the island a few days, a
+vessel came in sight, and I did all I could to induce
+the natives to take us to it; but they would not
+part with us. Seven days afterwards, two more
+ships, in company, came close to the shore. The
+natives seemed very much frightened at this, and
+were in the utmost confusion; they took us, and all
+the skulls, with the dog, and hid us among the
+bushes until the ships were gone.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We were very scantily supplied with provisions
+during our stay on the island. When the natives
+had been unsuccessful in fishing, they would eat it
+all themselves; and at other times, when they
+caught a good supply, they gave us the entrails
+and heads. This, with a sort of wild plum, and
+now and then a piece of cocoa-nut, which we got
+without their knowledge, was our only food.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>We were sometimes so hungry as to be glad to
+eat the grass. Through doing this, I have often
+been attacked with such violent pains in the stomach,
+as made me unable to walk upright.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Little William Doyley was very ill-used during
+our stay here; he cried very much after his mother;
+and at times the natives, both men and women,
+would tie him up to a tree, and beat him with bamboos;
+on my asking them to leave off, as well
+as I could by signs, they would shoot at me with
+their bows and arrows. On one occasion, when
+the women were beating him, I went and released
+him, and very nearly lost my life, for an arrow was
+shot within an inch of my head. They sometimes
+tied him up and left him several hours.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Sexton and myself were chiefly employed in
+climbing trees, and breaking up fire-wood to cook
+the fish with; when they thought we had not
+enough, they would beat us with their hands, and
+sometimes with the wood.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>They would at times take us with them in their
+canoes, to catch fish, which they did by spearing,
+and with lines and hooks. Their lines were made
+of the fibres of the outside shell or husk of the
+cocoa-nuts; and the hooks were neatly made of
+tortoise shell.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>The number of Indians on this island amounted
+to about sixty. They were merely residing on the
+island during the fishing season; for their home,
+as I afterward found out, was a great distance off.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After remaining here, as near as I can recollect,
+three months, (for I had almost lost all remembrance
+of dates) the Indians separated. One party
+took me and William Doyley with them in a
+canoe; and George Doyley and Sexton stayed
+with the other party.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The party that took me along with them, set sail
+early in the morning, and about the middle of the
+day reached another small island to the northward,
+where we stayed a day and a night; it had a sandy
+beach. The next morning we left this island and
+went to another, which was very flat, and covered
+with low bushes; here we stayed a fortnight. We
+then sailed northward, stopping at other islands,
+as long as we could get food for the party; this
+food consisted of fish and wild fruits; our drink
+was water.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We came to one island where we stayed about
+a month, and from thence went to another, which
+the natives called Aroob, but which I afterwards
+learned was Darnley’s Island. This place I have
+very good reason to recollect; it was here that we
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>were first treated with some kindness by the natives.
+After staying here about a fortnight, we
+again embarked, returning by the way we had
+come, to an island called by the natives Sirreb,
+situated near to Aureed.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Poor little William seemed to wish to stop on
+any of the islands where we landed; and cried for
+a long time after being on board the canoe, to return
+to them.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After remaining on this island rather more than
+a week, a canoe, with some of the natives of Murray’s
+Island, came there. They bought us of our
+captors for two bunches of bananas. We did not
+leave the island for three days after we were
+bought; but in that time went in the canoe with
+our new masters, who treated us very kindly. I
+was pleased to find that poor little William began
+to become more cheerful.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>We returned by way of Darnley’s Island, stayed
+there a few days, and then went to Murray’s Island,
+where we afterwards lived until the period of our
+release by Captain Lewis, in the Isabella.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Upon our first landing on Murray’s Island, the
+natives flocked around us, wondering who we
+were. They began asking those who had brought
+us a great many questions, and speaking to us in a
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>language very nearly like that of the other natives,
+and which I was just beginning to understand.
+Some of the children were very much frightened
+at us, and ran away as soon as they saw us.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I soon learned that the name of the person who
+bought me was Dupper; and little William was
+given into the care of a native called Oby, who
+lived near Dupper’s hut. This man soon got very
+fond of the little boy, as the child also became of
+him; indeed he seemed here to have quite forgotten
+his mother and father.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>My name among these people, was Waki, and
+that of William, was Uass. I lived in the same
+hut with Dupper and his family, consisting of himself,
+his wife Panney, three sons, to all appearance
+young men, and two daughters, who were called
+Yope and Sarki.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>In this place I was made as comfortable as I
+could expect, under the circumstances in which I
+was placed; my wounds had continued open during
+my wanderings, but they now began to heal,
+and my appearance soon altered for the better. I
+had now gone through all that could be called suffering;
+but still I constantly wished that some European
+vessel would touch at that shore, and take
+me once more to see my friends and country.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>My new master (I should have called him father,
+for he behaved to me as kindly as he did to his
+sons,) gave me a canoe, about sixty feet long,
+which he purchased at New Guinea, (the island
+that forms one side of the straits, Australasia being
+the other,) for a large tomahawk and a bow and
+arrow. He also gave me a piece of ground, on
+which he taught me to grow yams, bananas, and
+cocoa-nuts. When we were not otherwise engaged,
+he taught me to shoot with the bow and
+arrow, and to spear fish.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Little William soon began to speak their language;
+and I also learned so much of it as to be
+able to converse in it with great ease; having
+no other than natives to speak to, it is more than
+probable that as I learned their language, I should
+have forgotten that of my native country.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Although William was in general more cheerful,
+he would now and then appear very uneasy. On
+these occasions, I used to ask Dupper to allow me
+to sleep along with the child. This made him
+much more happy. As soon as he could speak
+their language pretty freely, he would go down to
+the beach with the other children of the island;
+and the effect of the sun on his skin became very
+apparent. In a few months he could not be distinguished
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>by his color from the other children;
+his hair being the only thing by which he could be
+known at a distance, from its light color.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<img src='images/i_037.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>The kind Murray Islander teaching John Ireland the use of the Bow and Arrow.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Murray’s Island is about two miles across, and
+contains about seven or eight hundred people.
+During my stay there, I never perceived any person
+who was in any manner above the rest of the
+natives, as regarded being a king, or chief, or any
+thing of that kind; but the whole of the inhabitants
+seem entirely independent of each other.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The houses or huts of the natives are something
+in the form of a bee-hive, with a hole in the side,
+even with the ground, and about two feet and a
+half in height, which serves for an entrance.
+When you go in, you must creep upon your hands
+and knees. They are made by placing a pole upright
+in the ground, and putting stakes round it in
+a circle at equal distances: these are then all bent
+inwards, and fastened together near the top of the
+pole, to which they are firmly bound.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The outside is then covered with dried banana
+leaves, which are very large. The entrance is
+merely a place in the side left uncovered. The
+pole, or supporter, is generally ornamented with
+shells; and at the top of it, which sticks out above
+the rest of the hut, they mostly fasten the largest
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>one they can find. Some of the huts have a quantity
+of skulls arranged round the inside.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Their canoes, or boats, are very large, mostly
+about fifty or sixty feet long, and some even larger
+than that. Two masts, opposite to each other,
+with a sail hanging between them, are placed
+nearly in the centre, but more towards the head
+of the canoe. The sail is made of plaited grass.
+When going with a side wind, they put one of the
+masts backwards, so that the sail stands slantingly.
+They use paddles of almost every shape; but the
+most general is merely a piece of wood cut flat,
+and broadest at the end which touches the water.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>They are expert in the use of the bow, which
+they call sireck; they make them of split bamboo;
+and they are so powerful that persons not accustomed
+to using the bow, would scarcely be able to
+bend them. Their arrows are pieces of wood
+made heavy at one end by a piece of stone or shell,
+sharpened at the end.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Their clubs are made of a hard black wood; the
+handle is made small, and has a knob at the end to
+prevent its slipping out of the hand.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>They are very fond of all sorts of European
+articles; especially beads, glass, red cloth, bottles,
+and particularly of iron, which they call ‘torre.’
+When they see a ship, they say directly, “We
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>will get some torre.” They think iron is found
+in the white men’s country in large rocks; and
+that we merely have to break pieces off as we want
+them.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Of all things, they were most inquisitive about
+fire-arms, which they call by the same name as
+they do their bows. Dupper told me that some of
+their people had been killed by them, and they
+never could see what struck them. But I could
+not explain to him the way that a gun was made,
+for I scarcely knew myself; all I could tell him I
+did, but this only made him the more curious.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Their usual way of catching fish is by spearing;
+but they also take the small ones with a kind of
+net, something like a sieve. One party disturbs
+the water, by beating it with long bamboo sticks,
+and so drive the fish towards the other, who then
+spear or net them. Lobsters are caught in the
+following manner: a party will get on a sandbank
+at night, some of them holding a bunch of
+lighted cocoa-nut leaves above their heads; the
+lobsters, seeing the light, leave their holes, and are
+then speared by the others.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Turtles abound on the islands, and are caught
+by the natives very dexterously. When they see
+them asleep on the water, a party of seven or
+eight go in a canoe, four of the party paddling very
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>slowly and silently towards them, the others squatting
+on the fore part of the canoe, with a rope
+fastened to their arms, and only their heads above
+the side of the canoe. Upon getting near enough,
+the parties in the canoe suddenly leap out, and
+catch the turtle by the fins; by which they are then
+hauled into the boat. I have seen three caught at
+one time in this manner.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After I had resided some months on this island,
+a native died in one of the huts near Dupper’s.
+Upon his telling me of the event, he said he was
+certain something very dreadful would happen
+soon. This remark of Dupper’s startled me; for
+it was the first death I had known on the island,
+and I could not help thinking of the fate of the
+crew of the Charles Eaton. An idea once or
+twice entered my mind that harm was intended to
+me on account of the death of this man; but Dupper
+treated me just the same as usual. Soon after
+sunset I went to rest, still feeling very uneasy. I
+had not lain very long, when I heard a noise, as of
+a person rattling shells, and breathing very hard.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Dupper uttered a short sentence in a language
+which I did not understand, and quite different
+from that of Murray’s Island, and then himself and
+all that were in the hut, hid their faces in the sand.
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>I asked Dupper what the noise was; he told me,
+the spirit of the dead man.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<img src='images/i_043.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>John Ireland sees the extraordinary apparitions which cause such superstitious terrors among the Murray Islanders.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>The next day, I and some of the natives, with
+little William, were sitting under a bamboo fence,
+close to the huts, when I heard the same noise a
+short distance off. On looking among the bushes,
+I saw two figures, the one red and the other white,
+with what appeared to be a fan over each of their
+heads. They began throwing stones at us; and
+the natives, who were about twenty in number,
+instead of getting up and driving them away, sat
+still, and seemed to be totally unnerved. The
+figures were very short, not larger than children
+fourteen years of age. I was told that they were
+the spirits of their departed friends.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I have since taken a great deal of trouble to ascertain
+what these figures were; for they made me
+very uneasy. I took particular notice of them at
+the time, and have searched through all the huts;
+but never could discover any traces of dresses similar
+to those worn by the figures.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The club is their principal weapon: with it they
+endeavor to strike the head; and one blow is generally
+fatal. Their spears, which they throw
+with great accuracy, are made of bamboo, with
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>points made of sharpened shells. They also use
+them in their hand with great dexterity.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Their bows are very dangerous instruments of
+warfare; as they sometimes poison their arrows.
+Being naked, they often get a slight scratch from
+one of these, and as they have no remedy for the
+poison, they die a painful and lingering death.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I was one afternoon sitting upon one of the hills
+in the island, when I saw a ship coming round a
+point of the island. My thoughts now turned
+upon the possibility of reaching this vessel, which
+approached nearer and nearer, and appeared as if
+intending to stop at the island. There was a
+merry-making in the village on that day: but my
+desire to leave the savage life, prevented me from
+taking part in it as usual; in fact, I wanted to draw
+the attention of those on board to myself before
+the natives should see her; but could not tell how
+to do so, the ship being so far off.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I did not attain my object, notwithstanding all
+my endeavors. As soon as the ship was observed,
+Dupper, as he usually did when a vessel came in
+sight, painted my body black, with a streak of red
+on the bridge of my nose, extending along my
+forehead, over each of my eye-brows. My ears
+having been pierced on my arrival at Murray’s Island,
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>his wife and daughters hung tassels, made of
+plaited grass, to them. They also put ornaments
+round my neck, body, arms, wrists, and ancles.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>When the ship came near enough to us for their
+glasses to make observations, the natives broke
+branches off the trees, and waved them. I did the
+same myself, and, to my unspeakable joy, saw her
+come near to the shore and drop her anchor. I
+then thought my deliverance certain; but was sadly
+disappointed that no boat came off to the shore.
+I went down to the beach along with Dupper and
+William, and some of the natives, but still no boat
+appeared, and I waited till the night set in.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Next morning, soon after sunrise, several canoes
+went away to the ship, Dupper and myself being
+in one of them; William was left on the island.
+We were in the third or fourth that got along-side
+and we dropped directly under the stern.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>A rope was thrown from the vessel into our
+canoe, and I caught hold of it, and tried to get on
+board by it. But I had sprained my wrist, by a
+fall, a day or two before, and waving the branch
+had made it exceedingly painful, so that I could
+not climb. One of the crew held out a roll of
+tobacco to me, but I could not reach it; so I asked
+him to lower the boat for me to get in.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>The captain and officers were at that time bartering
+with the natives for curiosities and tortoise
+shell; they had one of the cutters lowered, but put
+their pistols and naked cutlasses into it. When
+the natives saw that, they thought mischief was
+intended to me and to themselves; they immediately
+let go the rope, and paddled towards the
+shore. I stood up in the canoe; but Dupper took
+hold of me and laid me down in the middle of it.
+The boat rowed a little way after us and then returned
+to the vessel.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>A few hours afterwards, the boat came close to
+the beach, with, I believe, the captain on board, to
+shoot birds. One of the natives took little William
+on his shoulders, and went down to the beach,
+he walked towards the boat, and beckoned to the
+crew to come and take him.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I had often mentioned to the natives that the
+white people would give them axes, and bottles,
+and iron, for the little boy; I told them his relations
+were rich, and would be glad to give them
+a great deal if they would let them have him back.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>
+<img src='images/i_050.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>The kind Murray Islander surprised and delighted at perceiving iron can be bent by fire.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'>The captain made signs for the natives to go
+nearer to the boat; for he stopped at some distance;
+but neither party would approach the other,
+and the boat soon after returned to the vessel. I
+was kept among the bushes all this time, by Dupper
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>and his sons: but I could plainly see every
+thing that took place. The ship sailed next morning,
+and we were both left on the island. All my
+hopes of deliverance by means of this vessel, were
+thus put an end to.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>This vessel’s sailing without me, made such an
+impression upon my mind, that for three or four
+days I could eat no food, and at length became extremely
+ill. I think at times I was light-headed,
+for I did not know what I was doing. When I
+got better, which was in about a week, the idea
+that I should end my days among the savages settled
+upon me, and I became quite melancholy.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>My health after this began visibly to decline;
+and it grieved me to see William was also getting
+thin and sickly; for I had no remedy in case of
+illness. Nor did I ever see the natives make use
+of any thing either to prevent or cure diseases to
+which they are subject.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>One morning, Dupper was trying to straighten
+a piece of an iron bolt, and was heating it very hard
+with a large piece of stone, without being able to
+make any impression upon it. I told him to make
+a large fire, and put the iron into it, which would
+soften it. He did so, and his astonishment was
+very great when he found it answer the purpose.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>He was very much pleased with me for this discovery,
+and often told the other natives of it.
+Almost all of them had a piece of iron, obtained
+from the different wrecks which had happened on
+the island, or by trading with the Europeans; and
+we were after this frequently employed in straightening
+or altering the shape of these iron articles, as
+it might suit the various fancies of their owners.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After we had been about a year on Murray’s
+Island, Dupper told me that the natives intended
+to go on a trading voyage to Dowder, (this I afterwards
+learned was the name they called New
+Guinea,) and I was to be one of the party.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>For this journey, twelve large canoes about sixty
+feet long, each containing from ten to sixteen
+persons, men, and women, and children, were
+prepared. As many shells as the natives could
+collect were put into the canoes, and we set sail.
+The natives of New Guinea wear these shells for
+ornaments; and in return for them, the Murray
+Islanders get canoes, bows and arrows and feathers.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>When we came to Darnley’s Island, Dupper
+left me in the charge of a native of that place,
+named Agge, telling me he was afraid that the
+New Guinea people would steal or murder me.
+The party did not stay long on this island, for the
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>next morning they left me, not expecting to see
+them again for a month.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>How great was my surprise, when on the following
+evening, Dupper returned to the island
+where he had left me. I asked him whether he
+had changed all his shells so quickly, or whether
+any thing serious had happened, that he had come
+back so soon.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>He told me that they stopped at an island called
+Jarmuth, to pass the night, and that a quarrel ensued
+between one of the natives of that island, and
+a Murray Islander, named Newboo, and Dupper’s
+two nephews, about a pipe of tobacco. Another
+of the natives of Jarmuth had attempted to take
+from one of the Murray Islanders his moco, an
+ornament worn round the calf of the leg, made of
+the bark of bamboo.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>These outrages had caused a fight with bows
+and arrows, in which several of the Jarmuth
+people were wounded, and one of them shot
+through the body; but none of the Murray Islanders
+were hurt. On this account the voyage was
+not taken, but we all returned to Murray’s Island.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>About three days after this, the Jarmuth people
+sent a message offering peace; but it was not accepted,
+and they were still unreconciled when I
+came away.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>The time of our deliverance, however, which
+we had so long given up as hopeless, was now near
+at hand. The years we had passed among the
+savages had not taken from my memory the scenes
+of home, and happiness, and England; but since
+the departure of the last vessel that touched at the
+shore of the island, the thoughts of my friends and
+relations had come to my remembrance as forcibly
+as if it was only the day before that had been passed
+in their company, and in my mind it was but
+a week since events of the most pleasing kind had
+happened; and I had brooded over these reflections
+till my body had wasted to a mere skeleton,
+through the melancholy exertions of my mind;
+aided, no doubt, by the sickness which neglect,
+thus involuntarily induced, had attacked my weakened
+frame.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I used to delight to tell William about his father
+and mother; how they left a far off country in a
+large canoe; and of the storm, when he was nearly
+killed; how his mother kissed and fondled him
+to her bosom, when I brought him to her. Then
+that he had a brother, who came with us in the
+ship and played with him, till in the storm the
+ship was wrecked and broke to pieces; how we all
+were nearly starved to death; and at last escaped
+on the rafts; that his father and mother, and nurse,
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>with many more men, were killed by the natives
+of Boydan: and we had left his brother there
+among the savages, and had not seen them since;
+and of Dupper’s buying us, and bringing us to this
+island, and how kind he was.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>These recitals would bring tears into the eyes of
+my young wondering listener, showing that the
+impression was made upon his mind. How his
+tears pleased me! His simple questions upon these
+occasions were answered with an eagerness which
+showed with what deepness thought had fixed
+them on my memory. I need not add, how these
+things made me love the infant that God had thus
+thrown, as I thought, into my charge; nor how I
+resolved to endeavor, as far as my means would
+enable me, to cherish and protect him in his helplessness.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I had asked Dupper to enquire what had become
+of George Doyley and John Sexton, if he should
+at any time happen to meet with one of the natives
+of Boydan. He could not learn any tidings for a
+long time; but at length he told me that he understood
+they were both dead.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Some time after this, I heard two of the natives
+conversing, and one of them said that the youngest
+white boy at Boydan, (this was George Doyley,)
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>had got sick and died; and that the other one
+(John Sexton,) had been speared by one of the
+natives.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>One evening, Dupper’s brother was obliged to
+leave his house to do some business, and some of
+Dupper’s family, with myself, were asked to go
+there to take care of it during his absence. This
+house was on the hills.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The next morning, I saw a vessel come round
+the point of the island, and soon after drop her anchor
+near the shore. I immediately went down to
+the beach, where I saw several canoes paddling off.
+I attempted to get into one of them, but Dupper
+would not let me. I tried very hard to prevail on
+him to let me go, but for some time he would not
+consent. He told me to hide myself among the
+trees on the hills, for he was sure the people on
+board the ship would kill me.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>After much persuasion, upon my telling him
+that I did not want to leave him, but only to procure
+some axes and other articles, he with reluctance
+allowed me to get into his canoe. We then
+went off to the ship. I was fearful lest some misunderstanding
+should take place, so I asked Dupper
+to request silence until I had spoken with the
+people in the ship. The natives accordingly did
+not speak.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>When we got within a short distance, a person
+hailed me, and asked what ship I came out in.
+I answered, “In the Charles Eaton.” He then
+asked me whether there were any more white people
+on the island? I replied, “Only a child about
+four or five years old.” He then told me to come
+along-side, which I did, and was then taken on
+board.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>My agitation was so great, that I could scarcely
+answer the questions which were put to me; and
+it was some time before I recovered my self-possession.
+Captain Lewis took me down into the
+cabin, and gave me a shirt, a pair of trowsers, and
+a straw hat. He ordered some bread and cheese
+and beer for me; but the thoughts of again revisiting
+my home and friends prevented me from eating
+much of it.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>He asked me what had become of the remaining
+passengers and crew. I told him, as near as I
+could, all that had happened; that they were all
+murdered, with the exception of five men who had
+escaped in a cutter. He then told me that his
+ship had been fitted out in search of us. For this
+kindness on the part of government, I can not
+enough express my sincere thanks, and my sorrow
+that it should meet with so small a return.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>Dupper and several of the natives had come on
+board, and Captain Lewis told me to desire them
+to bring William. They said he was on the other
+side of the island, (this was the case,) but that they
+would bring him the next day. Captain Lewis
+then said that he would allow no trading till the
+child was on board. Most of the natives returned
+to the island in the evening; and those that remained,
+slept on deck, with a sail to cover them.
+Dupper and Oby were allowed to sleep with me.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Next day, the natives made a great many excuses
+against bringing William on board; they said he
+was crying, and would not leave the women. I
+told them that unless they brought him, they would
+not be allowed to trade. About the middle of the
+day he was brought. At first, he seemed frightened
+at the strangers, and did not like parting with
+his old black friends; but I did my best to pacify
+him, and he soon became used to the new faces.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>One of the sailors made him a frock and trowsers,
+and another gave him a cap; he looked very
+curious in them, but at first they made him uncomfortable.
+I have the cap now in my possession.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The natives of these islands are much given to
+pilfering. One of them was seen taking a knife,
+and was immediately sent out of the ship. I saw
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>Dupper steal a pair of compasses, but I said nothing
+about it to any one: I did not like to offend
+him.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id003'>
+<img src='images/i_059.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+<div class='ic003'>
+<p><i>The kind Murray Islander taking leave of the Orphans.</i><br />See page <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>The next night, Captain Lewis amused the islanders
+with a display of rockets, and firing of
+great guns, with which they were highly delighted.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Before the ship sailed, Dupper went and collected
+a quantity of cocoa-nuts, yams, and tobacco,
+which he brought on board for me. He then
+asked who was to have the care of my canoe, bow
+and arrows, and other articles? I said, his son
+Bowdoo; with which he seemed very well satisfied.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>He seemed to feel pained at parting; he cried,
+hugged me, and then cried again; at last he told
+me to come back soon, and bring him plenty of
+things, and not to forget ‘torre’. I then bade farewell
+to the poor old man, and the rest of the natives,
+who patted and fondled William in his new
+dress, and on Tuesday, the 28th of June, at about
+eight o’clock in the morning, we left Murray’s
+Island.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>The Isabella schooner had been fitted out to
+search the islands for the white people who had
+been shipwrecked in the Charles Eaton, or might
+be left on them from any shipwreck. I went with
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>the vessel to all those islands they had not searched
+before they discovered us; and my speaking
+the language was of great service.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>On one of the islands, we found a figure made
+of tortoise shell, painted something like a man’s
+face, round which were tied forty-five skulls.
+These we took on board. We observed that they
+were more or less injured. Several of them were
+supposed to have belonged to Europeans, and one
+to a woman.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Our voyage was prosperous, and we arrived
+at Sidney without any accident. Great excitement
+had been caused in this place by the melancholy
+disappearance of so many persons; and the
+rumor of our story, and of the fate of the Charles
+Eaton and crew, made William and myself objects
+of great curiosity.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I was taken to the governor of the colony, Sir
+Richard Bourke; to whom I related as much of
+this narrative as I could recollect. I had forty
+shillings given to me by the captain of the Japan,
+a whaler that we passed on our journey home.
+This money enabled me to buy some clothes. Sir
+Richard Bourke placed some money in the hands
+of a person in Sidney, to defray my expenses during
+the time I stayed there; the remainder of
+<span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>which sum I have received since my arrival in
+London.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>A lady named Mrs. Slade, whose husband is a
+government officer in Sidney, hearing that the
+name of one of the boys brought by the Isabella
+was Doyley, made inquiries respecting him, and
+found that he was the son of an old and esteemed
+friend. She immediately requested permission to
+take charge of poor William; who was accordingly
+given into her charge.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Our health, which had been improving during
+the passage home, now began to recover quickly.
+We had every attention paid to us that was possible;
+our cancers were subjected to medical treatment,
+and in a few weeks I was completely cured.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I stayed here five months, hoping to accompany
+William to England; but a boy threw a stone at
+him, which severely hurt his head, and threw him
+again on a bed of sickness, and deferred his departure.
+At the time I left, he was recovering
+fast.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>Not wishing to be longer dependent on the
+bounty of any person, and an opportunity offering,
+of a situation on board the Florentia, commanded
+by Captain Deloitte, bound to London, I took my
+farewell of William and my other kind friends, and
+went on board in the month of February.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>We set sail, and experienced a little rough
+weather on our passage, but arrived in London
+without accident, in August.</p>
+
+<p class='c000'>I had now been absent from England nearly
+four years; and it is impossible to describe my
+feelings when again putting my foot upon its long-desired
+ground; none but those similarly situated
+can understand them. All I wish the kind reader
+to do, is to avoid the savages of Boydan, but lend
+a helping hand to civilize the kind natives of Murray’s
+Island, and the Indians of Torres Straits.</p>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id002'>
+<img src='images/i_064.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/back.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c002' />
+</div>
+<div class='tnotes'>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c003'>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES</h2>
+</div>
+ <ol class='ol_1 c004'>
+    <li>Silently corrected typographical errors.
+
+    </li>
+    <li>Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
+    </li>
+  </ol>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
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