62 HrSTORY OF 



house was began for the Governor. In the 

 course of this month the store house was com- 

 pleted and a road to the wharf. On the 2 1st, in 

 the evening, a convict was brought to the hos- 

 pital, dreadfully wounded by some natives with 

 a barbed spear, which entered between his 

 shoulders, and went three inches deep into his 

 back. He said, that while in a cove at some 

 distance, he was suddenly wounded by a spear, 

 when his companion ran away, and that the 

 natives then came and stripped him of his 

 clothes, but did not take them away. In a few 

 days the other man's clothes were brought in, 

 torn with spears, and covered with blood, leav- 

 ing no room to doubt of his fate. On the %5 th 

 the Supply returned from Norfolk Island, being 

 unable to procure any turtle ; but while absent, 

 they saw a rock which Lieut. Ball, from its 

 shape, called Ball Pyramid. A soldier and 

 sailor were tried on the 26th for assaulting and 

 wounding James M'Neal, a seaman belonging 

 to the Sirius. This happened on Garden Island, 

 they all three lived in one hut, and having re- 

 ceived their week's spirits they got drunk and 

 quarreled. The assault being proved, each 

 received 500 lashes. The 30th of this month, 

 the bodies of two convicts were brought in, the 

 head of one was beaten to a jelly, and the bodies 

 of both had many marks of spears. It was 

 found on inquiry, that these men had stolen 

 a canoe from the natives, for which they 

 suffered with their lives. The natives them- 

 selves came about us as usual, and some who 



