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fbund to produce an evident effect on the 

 countenances of the convicts, having suffered 

 so much from the same cause before. On the 

 4th of June, the Governor named the town 

 marked out at Rose-Hill, Paramatta. The good 

 understanding which had commenced with the 

 natives, induced them to bring fish to Para- 

 matta, and exchange it for a little bread or salt 

 meat ; but that depravity which had hitherto 

 distinguished the convicts, nearly put an end to 

 it, by destroying a canoe belonging to Balloo- 

 derry, a native; and though all the convicts con- 

 cerned in destroying the canoe were punished, 

 the native was not satisfied, so threw a spear and 

 wounded one not concerned in the mischief, 

 which made the Governor, forbid Ballooderry 

 coming near the settlement* This alarmed the 

 natives in general, and they kept away for some 

 time. On the 19th of July, arrived the Mary- 

 Ann transport, from England, with 141 female 

 convicts, six children, and one free woman on 

 board, and a small lot of provisions. The Go- 

 vernor made known, that no obstacles. would be 

 placed in the way, of those whose times were 

 expired that might wish to return to England, 

 if they could induce the masters of any ships 

 that came to convey them thither. The Ma- 

 tilda transport arrived on the 1st of August, 

 after a passage of only four months and five 

 days from Portsmouth ; she brought 205 male 

 convicts, a few of the New South Wales corps, 

 and provisions for them for nine months after 



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