94 HISTORY OF 



the masts and oars, &c. they had hid in the 

 woods were destroyed. A boat belonging to 

 Mr. White, which went out with the seine, was 

 filled by the surf/ and went down near Middle 

 Head, with five people, who were all drowned. 

 The oars, &c* which floated on shore, the 

 natives fixed up on the coast, so that they 

 might be seen by our people, this was the first 

 act that shewed a friendly inclination towards 

 the colony from them. A Storehouse was 

 began and finished in November, at Rose-Hill, 

 the size of which was 100 feet by 20. At Syd- 

 ney, a landing place on the East side was 

 finished, a cutler's-shop, a place to boil oil and 

 melt tallow, and Bennillong's hut was com- 

 pleted, and he took possession of it. 



The Dutch Snow, Waaksamheyd, (Good- 

 look-out,) hired by Lieut. Ball, anchored in the 

 Cove, with the provisions, &c. bought by that 

 gentleman, at Batavia, which turned out of an 

 inferior quality, and served to shew that the 

 Dutch are not very nice about oppressing those 

 in want, as our colony was then. In the course 

 of the year 1790, Q seamen, 1 soldier, 123 male 

 convicts, 7 females, and 10 children, died, 

 making together 143 persons. 



It would be well if at the beginning of the 

 new year, 1791? I could say the convicts in 

 general had become new men, but that was not 

 the case; for as the Indian corn grew ripe their 

 depredations commenced, notwithstanding the 

 full ration they now received : they seemed indeed 

 to have an innate principle for stealing engrafted 





