138 HISTORY OF 



matta, was swept away by the torrent. No 

 doubt now remained of the bad conduct of some 

 of the settlers toward the natives. In revenge 

 they threatened to put to death three of the 

 settlers, Doyle, Forester, and Nixon ; and had 

 actually attacked and wounded two other set- 

 tlers, Shadrech and Akers, whose farms and 

 persons they mistook for those of Doyle and 

 Forester's. These particulars were procured 

 through the means of one Wilson, a very wild 

 young man, who, his term of transporta- 

 tion being expired, preferred living among 

 the natives in the vicinity of the river, to earn- 

 ing the wages of honest industry by working 

 for settlers. He had formed a strange medley 

 language between his own and theirs, with 

 which he made shift to comprehend something 

 of what they wished him to communicate - r for 

 they did not conceal the sense they entertained 

 of the injuries which had been clone to them. 

 The tribe with whom Wilson associated had 

 given him a name, Bun-bo-6. As the gratify- 

 ing a wandering disposition was the sole object 

 with Wilson in herding with these people, no 

 good consequence was likely to ensue from 

 it. Mr. Grimes purposed taking him with him 

 in the schooner to Port Stephens, 



There were at this time, several convicts in 

 the woods subsisting by theft; and it being 

 said, that three had been met with arms, it be- 

 came necessary to secure them as soon as pos- 

 sible. Watchmen and other people immediately 

 went out, and in the afternoon of the 14th, a 





