The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-04-14

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facing toward ac aanet lusA les =
twenty ward: dis, en- Tl,a II; tha
SAM moment AZ ;Jc Wine. -t,r .rz-
cd shower 81 spears n@E abuu, hin
and AGAIN and again he fired. While
We in the boats, although we could
not see siaGlc native. BEGAN firing
into the bush. whence the spears were
coming Then We rushed the boats
for the beach. and while the men in
the covering boat Went 10 see to
Waters. my crew and tore up the
bank, bent on getting 10 close quarters
with his treacherous assailants Not
single live native could be seen.
but we found three dead and two
wounded. As We were examining the
latter the brig opened fire on The vii
laee with the port side guns, much TO
the delight OF the two Fiji Men, who
now had the slaughter lust, and want
Cd me to attack and burn the village.
But | had had enough excitement and
vas hail blind as well, for in running
up the band had caught my foot in
creeper and fallen and the man be-
hind mc--a Savage Islander, one Of
my boats creW-trod on my face and
hlIed my eyes with sand.
Returning . the beach was srieyed
10 ind that Waters was badly wound
81. No fewer than three spears had
Stiu'.s iifl anu 1t N&S marvellous tAat
he hal net been killed. for We picked
M fifty OF the long slender weapons
lying about linn. Ills worst wound
v;,S in the h&c!t-llr spear tlal entered
II ohAQlei%, cone OLE on inc lei siGe
and buried half foot Of its length il
the sand. The other wounds We're
tritiing in compari son, but the poor
fellow was in great agony, although
losing bar little blood.
saw that il was necessary to re-
move the spear from his back at once
and this was done by the unwounded
Fiji IL Z splcrdidly expert manner. 1t
was Of the same thickness for two
feet o. its length ana the Fijian first
cut it off at the back. then we turned
Waters over on his SIDE, and the sur
geon." selling the sandy. blood stain
ed point. drew it out BY one swift.
steady pull
Il feel Ike a cursed porcupine."
Wa1ers SAID f2intiy. as gave him
some ram and water. Did YOU find
any dead nigsers9"
Three and two wounded"
In few minutes we We're on our
way TO the brig. and Waters was laid
out on the skylicht: and while the cap
tain dressed his wounds the mate got
the ship to sea again. Then we stood
away for New-Ireland.
In three weeks Waters had recoy-
cred and was at work again, and was
of great assistance in helping to get
nearly forty recruits" at Ralum. or
the north coast OF New Britain, where
he was we'll known TO the natives
Then we worked back to New Ireland
and got sixty more, which made US a
full ship and left US to thrash our