The schooner Unity, traveling to Van Dieman’s Land, lay two days in Twofold Bay; where four of her people landed with a small boat on the south-side to go shooting at an extensive lagoon, where they had to convey their boat about 100 yards overland. As they accomplished this, they found themselves hemmed in by several hundred natives, who immediately attacked them with spears. The small party had only two muskets, one of which was in a much-impaired state. By discharging only occasionally at natives that advance nearer than others, the Unity party succeeded in crossing to the sea-shore with their boat.
A number of the spears thrown struck the vehicle, and were frequently supposed by the people to have passed through the bodies of each other; but no less miraculously than fortunately, they reached the sea-side without a wound, and thence escaped.
“Sydney” The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW: 1803 – 1842) 19 Sep 1812