I therefore ran to the boat for my gun, which Ruston tried to get out for me; and at this moment, on casting my eyes upwards, I saw a native start up on the sandbank not more than fifteen yards from Ruston and myself; he poised his spear for one second, and it then came whistling at us.

I dodged and the spear flew past without my seeing what became of it.

I instantly gave the order to watch the bank and to fire at anything that showed itself above it; and Mr.Walker now had got hold of his gun and very gallantly ran up the bank and occupied it: in the meantime the native who had thrown the spear caught up a bag in each hand and ran off.

Several shots which were fired at the distant natives scraped up the sand so near them that they found it prudent to decamp as speedily as they could.
CHASE AFTER STOLEN GOODS.
I found that Ruston was wounded slightly in the knee by the spear which the native had thrown, and we had also sustained a severe loss in the bags which they had carried off as one of them contained fourteen fishing-lines and several other articles of great value to us in our present position.

I therefore determined upon a pursuit in the hopes of recovering these, and taking four or five men I gave chase.