er for'ard, but her after part was hanging on the coral
boulder under it, though every succeeding sea rolled her from side to
side. Hayes snatched the girl from Karta's arms just as the ship lobbed
over to starboard on her bilge, then a thumping sea came thundering
down, and swept the lot of us over the stern.

The poor Manila man was never seen again--barring a small portion of
his anatomy; to wit, his right arm and shoulder, the rest having been
assimilated by Jack Shark. Hayes got ashore by himself, and the writer
of this narrative, with Karta, the Pleasant Islander, and Lalia, the
trader's wife, came ashore on the wreck of a boat that had been carried
on top of the after-deck house.

We were all badly knocked about. Karta had a fearful gash in his leg
from a piece of coral. This he had bound up, whilst swimming, with a
strip of his grass-cloth girdle. Lalia, in addition to her dreadfully
crushed foot, had her right arm badly cut; and the writer was so
generally excoriated and done-up that he would never have reached the
shore, but for the gallant Karta and the brave-hearted Lalia, who both
held him up when he wanted to let go and drown quietly.

At dawn the gale had ceased, and whilst we, the survivors of the
_Leonora_ stood up and stretched our aching limbs we saw, as we glanced
seaward, the two 'blubber hunters,' who had ridden out the storm safely,
heave-up and sail through the passage. I don't think either of the
captains was wanting in humane feeling; but both were, no doubt, very
much afraid that as 'Bully' Hayes had lost his ship, he would not
be particular about taking another near to hand. And they were quite
correct. Hayes and his third mate, some of the white traders, and twenty
or so of our crew were quite willing to seize one of the whalers, and
sail to Arrecifos. But the Yankee skippers knew too much of 'Bully,' and
left us to ourselves on Strong's Island; and many a tragedy resulted,
for the crew and passengers of the _Leonora_ with some few exceptions,
were not particular as to their doings, and mutiny, treachery, murder,
and sudden death, were the outcome of the wreck of the _Leonora_.

AN OLD COLONIAL MUTINY

The following notice one day appeared among the official records of the
earlier days (1800) of the colony of New South Wales:--

'Whereas the persons undermentioned and described did, in
the month of November, by force of arms, violently take away
from His Majesty's