The attempted plan to save Provis was told to me by Pip on his seventy-first birthday. The plan was for Pip, Herbert, and Startop to meet Provis at the side of the Thames river, getting there by row boat, stay the night in an inn near the sea, and then row out to meet a ship going back to Australia. This happened in perfect sequence with no problems until the end of the plan. Pip, Herbert, and Startop rowed right up to Provis after a few minutes of boating, landing at the side for the shortest of times. As soon as Provis entered the boat, he immediately professed his thankfulness for what Pip was dioing for him. Pip sheepishly replied that he knew what it was like to be free and didn't want to see him without that right. It took them until the end of the day for them to reach the inn. There, they were informed by the Jack that a four-oared galley landed with a stone two gallon jar for beer. They all went to sleep and woke up early to catch the boat. At 1:00, they all saw the smoke from the boat and rowed out to meet it. Suddenly, to Pip's dismay, the four-oared galley sailed out from under the bank and intercepted them. A man in the galley called out that they weretransporting a criminal that had returned from where he was banished and that they were going to aprehend the man known as Provis, or Abel Magwitch. They then rammed the rowboat into the path of the oncoming ship's paddles. The boat was destroyed and five men were knocked into the water: Pip, Provis, Herbert, Startop, and another man who turned out to be the other convict, Compeyson. Pip, Herbert, and Startop were hauled into the boat, but both the convicts went under. Provis survived with an injury to the head and chest and was immediately handcuffed when he was pulled aboard, but Compeyson did not (serves him righ, that traitor). Herbert and Startop were let off the boat to travel to London by land, while faithful Pip stayed by hurt Provis, very scared and concerned for Provis' and his own future.