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ajood harbour. She also went, in company with 

 the Francis schooner, to Hunter river, where 

 they took in between them 45 tons of coal, 

 which were exchanged with the master of the 

 Cornwallis for a quantity of nails and iron, 

 articles of which the colonists stood in the 

 greatest need, and. thus the natural produce 

 of the country contributed to its wants for the 

 first time- 

 As the Francis was now nearly worn out, the 

 Governor purchased a vessel called the Harbin- 

 ger, to go to and from Norfolk Island, the 

 service of the Porpoise, which had for some 

 time been used, being required for longer 

 voyages. The Supply, though long since con- 

 demned, was fitting up as a hulk for incorri- 

 gible convicts; for though unfit fW every other 

 purpose, it might still be thus employed, and be 

 the means of affording another opportunity to the 

 numerous still offending inhabitants of the coun- 

 try, to return to a proper line of conduct, who it 

 is even still to be lamented, continue equally un- 

 moved, either by the fear of punishment, or the 

 hope of reward, careless alike to the pain of the 

 former or the pleasures of the latter, they fol- 

 low the dictates of their own vile inclinations, 

 and if impeded by the arm of justice, they 

 suffer the inflicted sentence with that hardened 

 bravado which represses every sensation of that 

 pity which is an honour to human nature, 

 when called forth into action by objects deserv- 

 ing commisseration. This reflection, perhaps, 

 bears more strongly on my mind, having been 



