A party of thirty female grasscutters were returning home with the result of their day's work, viz.,128 bundles of grass, in a boat pulled by three men, when a who had: been gazing into the tan "evil fish" overbalanced her self and fell into the water, dragging with ght in the effort the occupants, anxious to see what had become of the two, rushed to the side, capsizing the boat and throwing them all into the ware The men and women all hung on to the bundles of grass, which were floating on the water, and by this means saved their lives." They were all rescued by native craft sent out by a Police Sergeant who had witnessed the occurrence, with the exception of the two who first fell over-Doard.
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