172 THE END OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE.

river, the consequences of which disaster were
nearly fatal to his life.

When sufficiently recovered, he waited on the
governor; and though his innocence was acknow-
ledged, he was commanded to quit the colony
without delay.

His unhappy fate still pursued him; for the
vessel in which he sailed was scarcely out of the
harbour when it was attacked by two privateers
and captured, and Dombey, disguised as a Spanish
sailor, was thrown into prison in the island of
Monserrat, where ill-treatment, grief, and disease,
put a period to his eventful life in the spring of
1796.