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Over the South Cape it seemed woody, the 

 coast was irregular, with low points forming 

 creeks and bays. The Golden Grove in the 

 night of the 9th shipped a sea, with a confused 

 heavy swell, though it was a calm at the time, 

 which circumstance has occured .to other ships 

 in nearly the same situation. On the following 

 day, at two o'clock, a squall took the Sirius, 

 arid did her considerable damage; the slowness 

 of their progress along the coast made it the 19th 

 before they reached the Red Point. In the even- 

 ing they saw the entrance into Botany Bay, but 

 too late for the transports to enter that night. In 

 the course of the night the whole fleet was 

 carried Southward as far as a clump of trsnj^ 

 called Post-Down-Clump; but as a breezy 

 sprung up, they soon regained the lost distance, 

 and at ten minutes before eight in the morning, 

 the Sirius came to an anchor in Botany Bay, 

 and by nine o'clock all the transports were safe 

 in. 



This voyage, on the termination of which 

 many doubts must have arisen in the onset, was 

 providentially compleated in eight months and 

 a week, during which time, the fleet sailed 5021 

 leagues, and at length rested, only a few days 

 sail from the antipodes of their native country, 

 and during the whole passage only 32 had died, 

 though many were sickly on leaving England. 

 But the good quality of the provisions, aided 

 by the refreshments they received at Rio d.e Ja- 

 nerio and the Cape of Good Hope, rendered the 

 fleet healthy. 



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