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6 scarce one amongst them dared to shut eyes or doze for a moment, for fear of  sacrificed uuawaresunawares [sic]. Under these circumstances, Robertson and Fagan  a sort of agreement between them, that  one slept the other should watch,  “We were always alarmed. The next was murdered was Coventry, the old  he was cutting wood one night, and agreed, in the mean time, to kill M Queen and Fagan wanted to draw again who should kill him, but I said no  had already killed my man, and they  to do it between them, that they might  in the same trouble as me. Fagan him the first blow. He saw him and called out for mercy: he struck him  the head, just above the eye, but did not  him. Myself and M‘Queen finished and cut him in pieces. We ate greedily the flesh, never sparing it, just as if we to meet with a whole bullock  day. I used to carry the axe by day, lay it under me at night. I thought I safe, forgetting that they had knives and. Before we had ate all Coventry’s M‘Oueen started up, one night, looking, and bade me come with him to  some snares to catch a kangaroo. We Fagan by the fire, and when we had