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disease too much to recover,. but the boy and 

 girl did very well directly. The native who 

 resided with us, said whole families were killed 

 by it, and that many to avoid it, flew to the 

 woods. When the boy recovered, he was taken 

 by Mr. White, the surgeon, of whom th£ boy 

 was very fond, and the girl was taken by the 

 clergyman's wife. From the time the children 

 came to us, the native who lived Tn the set- 

 tlement was very attentive to them, and, as 

 was feared by every body, he caught the infec- 

 tion and died. At five in the evening, on the 

 6th, after an absence of seven months and six 

 •days, the Sirius from the Cape of Good Hope 

 anchored in the cove. She arrived at the Cape 

 on the 2d of January, and sailed on her return 

 on the 20th of February. In a gale she suffered 

 much damage. She brought 127,000 weight of 

 flour for the settlement, and twelve months 

 provisions for her crew. The latter end of May 

 several convicts reported they had seen the 

 body of a white man in a cove at a distance; a 

 muster was called and no one found absent but 

 a black named Csesar, who had absconded from 

 the service of an officer, and taken with him a 

 gun, an iron pot, and some provisions ; in the 

 course of a short time, however, he was caught, 

 and as the idea of death seemed to have no 

 effect on his mind, the Governor ordered him 

 to be kept at work on Garden Island in fetters. 

 The King's birth day was celebrated with every 

 possible respect on June 4th, 1789, and in addi- 

 tion to the ceremonies of last year, the ordnance 



