China. Someof the natives'came along-fide- the-Sirius, and
made figns to .haxe;rtheir beards taken’ off. One-of them pa-j
tientlypand without f^ar-ordiftruft,
from the fhip’s barber, and.feemed much delighted with it.
,2 1 ft . William- Ayrespa oonvidt, who was in d fta tb of
convalefcenee, and to whom I had. given- permiffion to go
a little wapinto- the country for. the purpofé-o f gatherings
a few herbs wherewith to.make tea:, was, afteb night-, brought
to i the hofpital, with one o f the fpearsufed by'1 the natives'
flicking in his loins«.3 It had been darted at hini; as 7hd';was.
ftöopiing, and while, his back was turned - to the-^aflailhnt.
The weapon was barbed j and ftuGk fó * very-' faft,J that it
would admit of no» motion. -After--dilating the wound",to
a cpafidemble length and depth, with fónje difficulty I extracted
the fpear* which had -pénetrated the fiefh -nearly
three inches.. After the operation, he informed us that he
received - his wound from three o f the native’s,-'who- came
behind him at a time when he fufpeéted no perfon to be
near him except Peter Burn,: whom he had met a little
before,, employed on the fame, bufinefs as himfelf. He
added, that after they had wounded him, they' beat him
in a cruel manner, and ftripping the cloaths from his‘back-,
3 ' carried