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I could not see through the dense thicket of the swamp; but another repetition of the call assured me it came from Sim Gwynn, my fellow-navigator in the swamp. "Come here, Buck will you?" said he, when I had answered his summons. "I'm coming, Sim!" I shouted. I plied the pole vigorously, and soon propelled the raft to the place where he stood.
But Freycinet, who had shared in the generous hospitality of the British governor in Sydney extended at a time when the French crews were sorely stricken and should have been moved by gratitude, to say nothing of justice, to help in undoing an act of wrong to a fellow-navigator, does not seem to have taken the slightest step in this direction, nor does he in any of his writings express any regret concerning the unhappy fate that overtook the English captain.
Moreover, as Flinders explained to him how he could obtain fresh water at Port Lincoln, a fellow-navigator would surely have been glad to reciprocate by indicating the whereabouts of a harbour in which the Investigator might possibly be glad to take shelter on her eastern course. It is also clear that Flinders did not misunderstand Baudin.
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