During their absence I expressed, in the hearing of some of the men, my anxiety lest he should have lingered behind and have fallen in with the natives; upon which they smiled and said that "Tom Stiles was a man who did not care about the natives; and that only that morning he had said he didn't mind for all the natives in the island, d--- them;" and that they thought he had stopped behind on purpose.
GATHERING OF NATIVES.

SCENE WITH NATIVES.
The absence of Mr.Walker and his party continued much longer than I expected, and just at the moment that I had become rather alarmed about it Coles reported to me that he saw natives on the opposite cliff, jumping about and running up and down brandishing their spears in the manner they do before and after a fight.

Coles was at this time posted as sentry on a terrace just above where we were, and the ascent to which was very difficult.

I got up on this as fast as I could; it was only two or three yards broad and ran apparently along the whole length of the valley.

The natives used it as a path, and a very steep hill rose behind it.