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ing them. A cellar was made, to receive the 

 stock of spirits from on board the Fishhourn, 

 and the provisions from the Golden Grove 

 were placed in the large storehouse. As many 

 accidents happened by lire, an order was issued 

 to prevent chimnies being built in those huts 

 that were thatched. When our .people were 

 fishing, it was by no means uncommon for 

 some of the natives to come down and help 

 them haul the seine, for which assistance they 

 usually had a share of the fish given them. 

 However, one day, driven by hunger or some less 

 honest motive, they came and took more than 

 half what was brought on shore ; the}^ were 

 armed, and had a party in the rear with spears 

 poized, ready to throw if any resistance had 

 been made; but for the future a petty officer 

 was ordered to go with every fishing boat down 

 the harbour. Notwithstanding all the orders, 

 thtt could be given to prevent offending the 

 natives, they had, in toto, no effect on the con- 

 victs, for in direct opposition to the Governor's 

 regular orders, they Avould wander about, often 

 only two together, and even singly. On the 

 27th, as two convicts strayed in this way, the 

 natives made signs to them to go back, which 

 they did, but ran different ways, the natives 

 seeing this, threw spears at them ; one es- 

 caped, but the other received two spears, on 

 which, he swam over the bay, and said the 

 natives laughed at him. 



