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forced to pay for the loan of one by a part of it, 

 but when he could not afford to do thus, he 

 was obliged to eat them raw, which caused indi- 

 gestion, and killed him. 



At Rose-Hill no misconduct was found 

 among the convicts ; a kangaroo was caught 

 there which weighed 180lbs. The native dogs 

 grew troublesome, as they came in numbers 

 by night, and killed several hogs. ' The colony 

 now became in want of salt, so two boilers were 

 erected to boil salt water, and by this simple 

 means was obtained a supply of that useful 

 article ; and as the fishing tackle began to 

 decrease, a rope-maker, (a convict,) was put 

 to make lines from the bark of a tree, li ke the 

 natives. The little labour that could be ob- 

 tained from a starving people, was applied to 

 getting the ground at Rose-Hill and Sydney 

 ready to sow. On the 3d of June, every heart 

 was delighted by the long expected signal for 

 a ship in sight at South head, and though it 

 blew very hard, Captain Tench, and the Go- 

 vernor's Secretary, with Mr. White, went off at 

 great risk, and reached the ship in time to give 

 directions for her being placed in Spring Cove. 

 She proved to be the Lady Juliana transport, 

 from London, last from Plymouth, from whence 

 she sailed on the 29th of July, with 222 female 

 convicts on board. It was now found that the 

 not hearing from England arose from neglect, 

 delay, and misfortune, and the latter was by 

 far the most serious. Two months after the 

 Lady Juliana, sailed the Guardian, of 44 guns, 



