C H A P . T age
■ for N ew ^Zealand.— -The bones o f two horfes Found.—-"Whalers
-fail;— Public works.— Weather.— Fears for the approaching
harveik, 1 1 9
X I I I . T h e Semiramis ■ arrives from-Rhode Ifland.—-T h e church at Sydney
burnt.— Reflections.—Some veflels fa il; the Norfolk for V a n Die-
-man’s L an d ; the Francis for Norfolk-Ifland.— Another fire in
the town.— A ’ ffiip arrives from the Cape with cattle.— Works in
■‘hand.— Bennillong.— -The governor’ s fteward deftroys himfelf.—
A n order refpeCting the women.— A battery ereCted.—Weather.
— State o f the harveft.— Irifli.—Shi! Francis returns ; and the
Nautilus.—T h e 'E liz a from'Sea.— Information.— Three deaths.—
‘One "good character recorded.—-Diforders.—Public works,—
'Great heat.— Returns Of ftock, and land in cultivation, . 12.9
X IV . Certificates granted to conviCts.— Reafons for-fo doing.—‘Unruly behaviour
o f the Irifli;— Agricultural concerns look ill.— T h e Norfo
lk floop returns from Van Dieman’ s Land.— Particulars.—
Twofold Bay defcribed.— T h e natives there.—‘Kent’ s Group.—
Furneaux’ s Iflands.— Prefervation ’Ifland.— Curious petrifaction
tittle.— Cape Barren Ifland.— Th e wom-bat defcribed; 14 1
X V . Th e Norfolk -proceeds on her -voyage.—Th e Swan Ifies; why ‘fb
-named.—Waterhoufe 'Ifle.— Difcover P o r t Dalrymple.— Account
of the country within it.— Natural productions;— Animals.— Sagacity
and numbers o f the black fwan.—Inhabitants; inferior to
thofe o f the continent;— Range of the thermometer.— Pafs Table
Cape— Circular head.— Three 'Hummock Ifland.— Albatrofs
Ifland.— Hunter’s Hies.— Proceed1 to th e fouthward and weft ward, 1 5 9
X V I . T h e Notfolk paffes the ftra it.—1ObfeTvations thereon.— Proceeds to
the fouthward— Pafles the S . W . Cap e; and S . Cape.— Remarks
-on the latter.—De Witt’ s Hies.— Storm-Bay Paflage.— Tafmah’s
Head.—‘Fluted ’Cape.— Frederick Henry Bay.—Enter the Derwent
river, firft feen in 'the fhip Duke, of Bengal.-»-ObTervations
?on the Derwent;— Some natives Feen.—Particulars o f one.— V e nomous
fnake.—-One deftroys itfelf.—Comparifon between N ew
South Wales and Van Dieman^ Land.— Arrive at Port Jackfon.
-— Advantages o f the ftrait; . . ' , i*j6
X V I I . TranfaCHons.— Information from Norfolk-Ifland.— A burglary committed.—
1The criminal court aflembled.— A man tried for killing
a native.— Tw o men executed.— The public gaol burnt.—Observations.—
Stills, ordered to be feized.—Settlers, their profligacy.—
A man
CHAR.-
A* man found dead.— Great-drought.— A-flood attheriver.-— Two*
whalers arrive.— ConduCb o f the. labouring convi&s.— A feaman
killed.— A.woman-murdered by her huffiand.— Natives.-—A Spanish.
prize arrives»—NorfolkJfland.— Refources. in. N ew South
Wales.— Public works,.
X V I I I .. T h e Buffalo arrives-from England^. and brings cattle« from the Cape.
— A . marine fettler killed— Natives.,— A.criminal court held.—
Taylor executed.— Lowe punifbed;— A ' highway/ robbery.—Pro-
vifions in (tore.— Ration, altered.— June, two whalers come in from>’
fea.— Ideas. of.a .whale-fiftiery.— Tempeftuous weather.— Effe&s.
— T h e Albion, whaler arrives from England.—Her paflage.—Ju ly,
a, miffionary murdered.—Th e murderers.tried, and executed—
Orders publtffied.— State of. the farms.— The Hilliborough arrives
from England.— Mortality on board.— Public works,
X IX . Th e governor viftts the fettlers upon George’ s riven—The Norfolk
floop returns; from an.excurfion to the northward.— Account of
her proceedings» —Enters» Shoal-Bay.—Particulars refpe&ing it.
— Defcription ofi a palm-nut. tree.—-Enters Glafs-Houfe-Bay.—
Lieutenant Flinders^meets fome natives..— Has • an ■ interview with
them.—Particulars.—Point Skirmifh.— Proceeds to a. river in
Glafs-Houfe Bay,,. ..
X X . Further proceedings in Glafs-Houfe Bay.— Red Cliff1 points—Nets of
the natives.— Mor-eton Bay found to be an ifland.— The floop prepared
for an. attack of the natives.— The. Event.— Account o f an
ifland.— Enter Pamicer^Stone-river.— See fome natives.—Th e leak
in the floop (topped.—Interviews with natives.-—Mr. Flinders vifitg
the GlafsHoufe peaks.— A ccount’ of the country.— Return down
the river.—Other interviews with natives.— Their manner o ffiflv
ing.— Singing.— Dancing..— Other particulars of, and fome con-
j?&ures refpe£ting them.— Quit Pumice-Stone river,.and GlaL-
Houfe Bay,, - - ... • .
X X I . T h e Norfolk proceeds to Harvey ’s Bay. — Some account o f it.— C u r lew
Ifland.— She. returns to Port Jackfon.— Qbfervations on the
currents and tides along, the coaft— A criminal court aflembled.—
Order refpefting the iffuing o f government notes.— Public works.
— September.— A (hip arrives, from America.— The Buffalo fails
for. the’ Cape.—/The governor- erodes the.Nepean.— A calf killed.
— October;— Convicts found on board.the HilHborough^nd Hun»
ter.— The mafter of the Hunter tried.— A young ox ftolen.— Ration
reduced.— Erice o f Gra in . fixed.
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