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found Wilson and Davis there
I swam out ten or fifteen yards
and saw the blacks beating Solomons [sic]
about the body with their wooden
swords he appeared to me to be
dead. They then left the body for
two or three minutes and moved
away a few yards along the beach
at the expiration of that time they
returned and beat the body again
I then saw one black lift up his
leg and pull his trousers off. I
think he was dead as the legs
dropped heavily. I then turned
round seaward and saw Davis
about fifteen yards to the seaward
of Wilson. He appeared very strong
in the water and was swimming
out seaward looking round again
to the beach I found that Solomon's
body had been taken away and
that a great number of the blacks
had left. I then went towards
Wilson and missing Davis I
asked where he was he said he
did not know he believed D whether
Davis had gone on shore and
got killed or whether he was
drowned. I had been watching the
shore I did not see him land.
I think he swam to sea and
was drowned. The blacks kept us
in the water until dark throwing