with
patient composure; and though he was sensible to the last moment, expired
almost without a groan. Nanbaree appeared quite unmoved at the event;
and surveyed the corpse of his father without emotion, simply exclaiming,
'boee' (dead). This surprised us; as the tenderness and anxiety of the old
man about the boy had been very moving. Although barely able to raise his
head, while so much strength was left to him, he kept looking into his
child's cradle; he patted him gently on the bosom; and, with dying eyes,
seemed to recommend him to our humanity and protection. Nanbaree was
adopted by Mr. White, surgeon-general of the settlement, and became
henceforth one of his family.

Arabanoo had no sooner heard of the death of his countryman, than he
hastened to inter him. I was present at the ceremony, in company with the
governor, captain Ball, and two or three other persons. It differed, by
the accounts of those who were present at the funeral of the girl, in no
respect from what had passed there in the morning, except that the grave
was dug by a convict. But I was informed, that when intelligence of the
death reached Arabanoo, he expressed himself with doubt whether he should
bury, or burn the body; and seemed solicitous to ascertain which ceremony
would be most gratifying to the governor.

Indeed, Arabanoo's behaviour, during the whole of the transactions of
this day, was so strongly marked by affection to his countryman, and by
confidence in us, that the governor resolved to free him from all farther
restraint, and at once to trust to his generosity, and the impression which
our treatment of him might have made, for his future residence among us:
the fetter was accordingly taken off his leg.

In the evening, captain Ball and I crossed the harbour, and buried the
corpse of the woman before mentioned.

Distress continued to drive them in upon us. Two more natives, one of them
a young man, and the other his sister, a girl of fourteen years old,
were brought in by the governor's boat, in a most deplorable state of
wretchedness from the smallpox. The sympathy and affection of Arabanoo,
which had appeared languid in the instance of Nanbaree and his father, here
manifested themselves immediately. We conjectured that a difference of
the tribes to which they belonged might cause the preference; but nothing
afterwards happened to strengthen or confirm such a supposition. The young
man died at the end of three days: the girl rec