fettlement by the murder o f * John MTntire in the year 1 7 9 0 ;
fince which he had been a moil adtiveenemy to the fettlers, plundering
them o f their property, and endangering their perfonal
fafety.
The people belonging to the crown were employed during this
month in the following feveral works: At Toongabbe, upwards o f
100 men were occupied in agriculture—a wind-mill was to be
eredled at Parramatta, where ilone-mafons and carpenters were preparing
the materials.—At Sydney, a gang was employed in making
bricks, where alfo were completing a large granary and a ilrong
log-prifon. All the publick brick buildings were likewile undergoing
a repair, being crumbling into ruins; fuch as the barracks
for the military, ftore-houfes, officers’ dwellings and others. Some
people were alfo repairing the boats belonging to government;
and bricks were bringing in for the barracks o f the affiftant fur-
geons (this part o f the public labour was performed by a team o f
oxen). A new flag-ftaff was prepared and eredled at the South
Head during this month, the weather o f which had for the greater
part been very wet.
* Vide Vol. I, page 143 .
CHAP.
C H A P . IV.
R EPO R T REVIVED OF A WHITE WOMAN BEING WITH THE N A T IV E S .— A
SHOAL SE EN .— SOME C IV IL REGU LA T ION S .----N AT IV E S TROUBLESOME.—
TH E GOVERNOR GOES ON AN EXCURSION.----P A R T IC U LA R S THER EOF.—
A V A LU A B L E T R E E DISCOVERED.----W EATH ER .— M AY.----THE N AT IV ES
BURN A HOUSE.— CONSEQUENCES.----THE SUPP LY A R R IV E S FROM THE
C A P E .— A SHIP WR ECK ED TO TH E SOUTHWARD.— TH R E E OF HER PEOPLE
BROUGHT IN B Y A FISHING BOA T.— P A R T IC U L A R S .— TWO A C C ID EN T S .—
. TH E B R IT A N N IA A R R IV E S FROM EN G LAN D .--- VESSELS AND AS S ISTANCE
SENT TO TH E W R EC K .— PU BL IC WORKS.— CORDAGE WANTED.— TH E
M E R CU R Y S A IL S .— JU N E .— TH E GANGES A R R IV E S FROM IR E L A N D .—
TR A N SA C T IO N S .— SOME RUNAWAYS T A K EN AND BROUGHT TO T R IA L .
___t h e R E L IAN C E A R R IV E S FROM THE C A PE.— A STR AN G E DESER T ION .
— PU BL IC WORKS.— NEW GAOL FINISHED.
S o m e reports being again circulated, refpe&ing the fituation o f
Mary Morgan, the woman faid to be detained among the natives
to the northward of Broken Bay, a boat, withTome people who
had volunteered the fervice, was fent to the north part o f that harbour
where it was faid ihe had been lately feen with fome of her
black friends. The people were diredted, i f poffible, to bring her
away, unlefs fhe preferred the life that Ihe now led; upon which
more than three years’ experience of it would certainly enable her
to decide. They were abfent about 10 days, and returned without
fuceefs, hot even having heard any thing of her *. They went
» Nor indeed could they very we ll; for at the time when this fearch. was mating after her:
in New South Walts (he was leading a life in London,' which (he molt certainly preferred to
the fociety o f either the black or white p e o p le * that country. She was taken from the
fettlement by Locke,, the mailer o f the Refolution, in the year 1794* Vide Vol, L P- 379*
and 489»
IO into