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ipeople being employed to bring in timber for that purpofe. Thefe
formed fome of the public -works -at Sydney. At Parramatta, Toon--
gabbe, and the other interior feulements, all were actively employed
in feouring the abundant crops which every where promifed
to reward the indutry of the fettler and the labourer.
The annual election o f conftables took place in this month. Thefe
municipal regulations were attended at leaft with the advantage of
introducing fomething like a fyftem o f regularity into the feulement,
than which nothing was more likely to check the relaxation which
had lately prevailed in it.
The weather in November was, for the firft and middle parts,
very unfettled, blowing hard at times with much rain. On
one day, there fell a Ihower of hail, the tones o f which were each
as big as a lark’s egg. The latter part o f the month was fair, and
favourable for reaping the grain.
CHAP.
C H A P . VII.
BEN -N IL-LON G AND COLEBE.— VARIOUS P A R T IC U LA R S RESPECTING THE
N AT IV E S.— Y E -R A -N I-B E K IL L E D .— A S E T T L E R ’ S HOUSE BU RN T THROUGH
M A L IC E .----SCHOOLS A T SYD N E Y .----TWO S E T T L E R S D R IN K FOR A WA ■
G E R .— THE BODY 0 1 A SOLDIER POUND.— C R IM IN A L COURT. — THE
FRANQIS SAIL S . FOR THE W R E C K .— WEATH ER .—-HOUSES BU RN T .
PUBL IC LABOUR. — H A R V E ST .— ACCOUNT OF L IV E STOCK AND GROUND
IN CULT IV A T IO N .
December.] A CIRCUMSTANCE occurred about the beginning of
this month, that excited much intereft in the town o f Sydney, and
great commotion among the natives. Two o f thefe people, both of
them well known in thefettlement, (Cole be, the friend of Ben-nil-
long, and one o f the Ye-ra-ni-bes) meeting in the town, while their
bofoms were yet fwélling on occafion o f fome former difference,
attacked each other. Cole-be had always been-remarked For his activity,
but Ye-ra-ni-be had more /youth than his adverfary, and was
reckoned a perfect match for him. On clofmg on each other, with
their clubs, until which time Cole-be had not gained any advantage
óver Ye-ra-ni-be, the handle o f Ye-ra-ni-be s Ihield drew out,
and it conlequently fell from his grafp : while Hooping to take it
up, the other truck him on the head with a club, which daggered
him, and followed his blow while hé was in that derencelefs litti-
ation.
Cole-be knew that this would enfure him the appellation o f jee-
run, or coward, and that the friends of Ye-ra-ni-be would as certainly
take .up. his caufe. As the confequencfes 'might be very, fe-
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