When they had brought them on shore, they undressed them, kindled a fire and dried their clothes, gave them fish to eat and conducted them to Sydney.
The other instance was of a soldier lost in the woods, when he met a party of natives.

He at first knew not whether to flee from them, or to implore their assistance.

Seeing among them one whom he knew, he determined to communicate his distress to him and to rely on his generosity.

The Indian told him that he had wandered a long way from home, but that he would conduct him thither, on the single condition of his delivering up a gun which he held in his hand, promising to carry it for him and to restore it to him at parting.

The soldier felt little inclination to surrender his arms, by which he would be put entirely in their power.