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The timber for the new windmill was brought in during this
month ; and the floor o f the government houfe having given way,
the carpenters were employed to repair it.
Arrivals from England were now hourly expected, as flrong
gales had blown for fome time from the fouthward.
CHAP.
C H A P . X I.
SOME IR ISHM EN P RO V ID EN T IA L L Y SAVED FROM PERISH IN G .— TH E N A U T I -
LUS A R R IV E S FROM O T AH E IT E .— MISSIO N AR IE S .— ORDER R E SP EC T IN G
TH E SAWY ER S .— THE B A RW E L L A R R IV E S WITH CONV ICTS.— A JUDGE
ADVOCATE SEN T OUT.— INFORMATION.----THE R E L IA N C E AND SCHOONER
SA IL FOR NOR FO LK-ISLAND.— INFORMATION SENT TH IT H E R .— N AT
IV E S .— WORKS AND W EA TH ER IN M AY.----JU N E . — GROUND F IX ED ON
FOR TH E MISSIONARIES.—-TH E H U N T E R A R R IV E S FROM B EN G A L .----
REGU LA TION S .— TH E COMMANDER OF THE SYDNEY-COVE DIES. — A
DECKED BOAT A R R IV E S FROM NORFOLK-ISLAND. — MAIZE HARVEST-
COMPLETED .— W EATH ER .
May.] IN the afternoon o f the 2d of this month, certain Irifh-
men, who had been for fome time employed in fearching for a road
to China (that delirium ftill remaining unfubdued among them),
were brought in by one of the fettlers upon George’s river. They
had been wandering through the woods, until they were near pe-
rifhing for want of food, and were difcovered in a mod unlooked-
for manner. Some people in going from Botany Bay up George’s
river had loft their way, the weather being exceedingly hazy, by
following a branch o f that river which had never been looked into.
B y this miftake, they fell in with thefe people, whofe ignorance of
the country had led them down upon a point o f land which was
placed between two waters, where they had been for nine days,
unable to find their way back, and muft foon have perifhed, had it
not been for the accidental miftake of the people in the boat. The
account which they gave o f their travels and diftrefles was not
worth giving a place to here, being nothing more than what might
be conjectured.
It