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making her total passage 36 cfeys. The misery and semi- 

 starvation of those wretched five weeks, during which 

 they were cooped up and tossed about in that little vessel 

 of 480 tons, were not soon forgotten by her 160 pas- 

 sengei's. The live stock brought in the Ocean also 

 suffered severely during the long rough passage, and 

 Collins rueluUy enumerates the losses, which he could 

 ill afford, seeing that the whole of the live stock at the 

 settlement at the end of July consisted of only 20 head of 

 cattle, 60 ^sheep, and some pigs, goats, and poultry. ■ 



The reinforcement of people he had received now 

 brought up the strength of the Governor's establishm.ent 

 to 433 persons — viz., 358 njen, 39 women, and 36 

 children.* The new arrivals w^-e temporarily distributed 

 amongst the huts already built, and the considerate 

 Governor allowed them a few days' exemption from work 

 to enable them to build themselves houses. He was so 

 pleased with Lieut. Sladden's report of his little detach- 

 ment of marines that he issued a Garrison Order 

 commending them, and expressing his gratification at 

 their soldierlike demeanour. His civil staff was now 

 complete. Mr. Leonard Fosbrook, the Deputy Com- 

 missary-General, who had been left at Port Phillip in 

 charge of the stores and live stock, was quartered in a 

 Gen. Order, marquee on Hunter's Island. Three magistrates were 

 29th June-. appointed under a Commission from the Governor- 

 General King. This first Tasmanian Commission of the 

 Peace consisted of the Bev. Robert Knopwood, Lieut. 

 Sladden, and Surveyor-General Harris. The night watch 

 was also reorganised, and placed under the direction of 

 Mr. Wm. Thos. Stocker, who in after years became a 

 respected citizen of Hobart as the proprietor of the best 

 inn in the town, the Dertvent Hotel, situated in Eliza- 

 beth-street, on the spot now occupied by Mr. Henry 

 Cook's tailors' shop. Collins was not altogether satis- 

 fied with this flight watch, for he had to complain of 

 frequent robberies, Avhich he characterised as a disgrace 

 to the settlement, and which he was of opinion could not 

 have been perpetrated if the watch had been properly 

 vigilant. Such irregularities were, no doubt, inevitable 



* The return is printed in the Appendix. It bears date July, 

 1804, and is, presumably, therecord of the muster taken about three 

 weeks after the Ocean's arrival, and referred to in General Order, 

 17th July. It does not include Lieut. Bowen's Risdon peo^jle, who 

 were separately victualled. A comparison of figures leads to the 

 belief that it does include the few prisoners selected from the Risdon 

 establishment, and whom Collins retained at the Derwent. 



