"There is at least one witness whose account supports that scenario," the official said.

Native accounts of the landings support the Australian claims, however.

The account of a wall of water on either side, they said, supports the theory that the wind was pushing back the water.

The way in which he ends his account, so different to Mark, supports his theme:

However, contemporary accounts do not support that notion.

As will be seen, these accounts support each other on the main points, and are nowhere inconsistent with each other.

A contemporary account from the Chicago Tribune supports this version.

At one point in the hearings, the investigating officer told prosecution lawyers, "The account you want me to believe does not support unpremeditated murder."

Mason's account supported this, saying that "several were found slain," a reference to them being injured.

The account of the sequence of events supported those given earlier by witnesses and other survivors.