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THE DISCOVERY OF PORT DALRYMPLE. 



Sydney 

 Gazette. 



King to Mr. Alexr. Riley, Storekeeper, at a salary of 5.s\ per 



UaSTi804 day ; Capt Allthon - v Fenn Kem P> Ensigns Hugh Piper 

 King to ' and Anclers011 > 64 non-commissioned officers and privates 

 Hobart, of the N. S. Wales Corps, and 74 convicts. One settler, 



20 Dec, 1804. James Hill, accompanied the party, and possibly another. 

 In all there were some 146 persons all told. The troops 

 were embarked on Wednesday, 3rd October,— the music 

 of the band, says our reporter of the Sydney Gazette, 

 being " only interrupted by reiterated peals of acclama- 

 tion from the spectators." On Sunday, October 14th, 

 the Lieut-Governor embarked from the Government 

 wharf, under a salute of 11 guns from the battery, the 

 band of the N. S. Wales Corps playing "God save the 

 King" and " Rule Britannia." Governor King and a 

 number of ladies and officers accompanied him on board 

 the Buffalo, which saluted with 11 guns. The little 

 Kent's Report, squadron got clear of the Heads the next forenoon. The 

 28 Nov., 1804. gm p S j la( j a ver y j.Qugh VO y a g e down, and a succession 

 of heavy gales separated them. Most of the live stock 

 died ; and it was not until the 28th — a fortnight after 

 leaving Port Jackson — that the Buffalo reached Eastern 

 Cove, Kent's Group, where she found the Francis. 

 Here she lay at anchor for 6 days, while it blew a strong 

 gale from the westward. On the 3rd November the 

 ships left their anchorage, and next morning the Buffalo 

 made the entrance of Port Dalrymple. None of her 

 consorts were in sight to try the channel for the larger 

 vessel ; and Captain Kent, with many misgivings, deter- 

 mined to make the venture ; for he says, in his report to 

 Governor King, " I saw little probability of the Settle- 

 ment ever being formed unless some risk was run. I 

 therefore bore up, in dark cloudy weather, blowing 



strong at north-west right on shore, for a harbour little 



very little — known, hoping, should any accident happen 

 to the ship, I might meet with every consideration for 

 my zeal." After what he had heard of the strength of 

 the tides, he was surprised to find it running only li 

 miles per hour, and avers " that a common four-oared 

 jolly-boat, rowed ill, could always, even in the height of 

 the springs, head the tide between Green IslanS and 

 Outer Cove, as it never exceeded 3 miles an hour." 

 The night coming on, the ship came to an anchor below 

 Green Island. It blew very hard in the night, and 

 harder in the morning, the anchor came home and 

 the ship drove on shore on the eastern shoals. Here she 

 lay beating for three days; but the Integrity, Acting 

 Lieut. Bobbins, coming in, they lightened the ship of 



