An account of a voyage to New South Wales (1810) (14757605226)

Identifier: accountofvoyaget00barr (find matches)
Title: An account of a voyage to New South Wales
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Barrington, George, 1755-1804
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : Printed for M. Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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long since, that one of themtaking offence at the Dutch Governor of theCape, for neglecting to send him back to Ba-tavia, armed himself with a nuuiber of wea-pons, and sallying out in the dusk of the even-ing, he killed and wounded indiscriminatelyevery person he met, women alone excepted.He also stabbed the (^entincl at the Companysgarden-gate, and artfully placed himself at hispost, in expectation of the Governors comingby, who narrowly escaped the fate intendedhim, in consequence of another persons beingkilled, who accidentally passed that way. Thisdesperate Malay being pursued, ran to theTable )\Iountain, where he defended himselfnear tMO days, and very much hurt those mIiothen beset him : however, he was taken alive,and as a terror to the rest, broken on theMheel, and his head and members afterwardsset up and exposed in difierent parts of thecountry. Such a practice as the above, amongthe Malays, is Q2L\\ti\Rii)mi)ig a Jlluck, and inthe instance here quoted, no less than fourteen
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i! NEW SOUTH WALES. 1 45 persons were killed, and double the numberdesperately wounded, and some of them, themost deserving and promising young men inthe town. The revengeful spirit of the Malays, thoughtill provoked, they are some of the most Riithfuland active of slaves, was, since this, exempli-fied in another Malay, at the Cape, who, con-ceiving he had a right to his liberty, for hislong and faithful fervices to his master, and inconsideration of several sums of money he hadpaid him, was determined in revenge to mur-der his fellow slave : and on being apprehendedand brought before a court of justice, he evenowned that the boy he had murdered M^as hisfriend ; but that he thought the most efFec tualway of being revenged of his master, was notthe murdering of him, but by depriving him ofthe value of 1000 rix-dollars, by the death ofthe boy, and another sum of equal value by the))ringing of himself to the gallows. The re-collection of these severe losses, he said, woiddbe worse than d