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left her before she cleared the harbour, "when 

 some of those on board got intoxicated, and 

 desired to bring a boat on shore, which was of 

 course refused; in consequence of this, one 

 of the crew fired a pistol and wounded a sea- 

 man, and for this he was brought on shore, 

 though not in a way agreeable to his desires. 

 A whale-boat was sent with Mr. Bass, to dis- 

 cover a stratum of coal found by Mr. Clarke, 

 two days before he was taken up by the fishing : 

 boat. Mr. Bass met with it seven leagues 

 Southward, and found it extended for nine miles 

 to the breadth of eight feet. On the 27th, a 

 young native, said to have committed murder, 

 underwent the encounter of that revenge usu- 

 ally exhibited on those occasions. In the com- 

 bat two spears went through his hand, when his 

 friends rushed on his adversaries, defeated them, 

 and broke their spears. Bennillong was now 

 accused of the murder of a native woman, be- 

 cause she told her friends, when at the point of 

 death, that she dreamed Bennillong had killed 

 her; but he protested he was a perfect stranger 

 to the woman, having never seen her. 



A piratical misfortune occurred in the begin- 

 ning of September; a boat, named the Cum- 

 berland, on her passage with stores to the 

 Hawkesbury, was boarded by some persons in 

 a small boat, and joined by some of the crew. 

 Four not wishing to escape in this way, were 

 put on shore near Broken Bay. The boat then 

 put off to sea, and those landed hastened to 

 Port Jackson with the information ; and though 



