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to it on account of the calyx projecting in five 

 points above the fruit. The gardens are laid out 

 in very neat order, and Mr. Richard Cunning- 

 ham having arrived from England with an ap- 

 pointment as colonial botanist, it may be hoped 

 from his knov^^n talent and assiduity that the co- 

 lony will soon have a " Botanic Garden,'"' in lieu 

 of a repository for turnips and carrots. 



The aborigines are often seen about Sydney ; 

 but to me they appear, probably from their 

 vicious habits, a far worse-looking race than 

 those I had seen in the interior. The celebrated 

 King Bungaree had recently ended his mortal 

 career, as well as most of his tribe, none of them 

 ever having been induced to settle and cultivate 

 the soil for subsistence. It is related, that in the 

 time of the government of General Macquaire 

 there was an attempt made, by distributing seeds 

 among them, to induce the natives to cultivate 

 the ground : among the packets of seed sent for 

 distribution were some which contained fish- 

 hooks ; these, together with the seeds, were given 

 by the governor to the sable monarch. King 

 Bungaree. Some time after the governor in- 

 quired of him whether the seeds had yet come up 

 — " Oh berry well, berry well," exclaimed Bun- 

 garee, " all make come up berry well, except dem 

 fish-hooks, them no come up yet." 



