He complied in sullen silence.

When about to enter the room in which she lay, he appeared to have a momentary struggle with himself, which ended his resentment.

He spoke to her with kindness, and professed sorrow for what he had done, and promised her future protection.
Barangaroo, who had accompanied him, now took the alarm: and as in shunning one extreme we are ever likely to rush into another, she thought him perhaps too courteous and tender.

Accordingly she began to revile them both with great bitterness, threw stones at the girl and attempted to beat her with a club.
Here terminated this curious history, which I leave to the reader's speculation.

Whether human sacrifices of prisoners be common among them is a point which all our future inquiry never completely determined.