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make common cause with them. Employers are completely under 
their control, and there is no manner of redress for idleness or bad 
work. If the employer complains, they all leave work, refusing to 
do any thing more, and soon compel him to re-engage them through 
necessity. 
The repairs were made, as has been stated, in Mossman’s Cove, on 
the north shore of the harbour of Sydney, one of the many natural 
docks that nature has provided for this harbour. The ship was laid 
aground, so as to expose her whole fore-foot, during the ebb tide. 
The damage which she had sustained has been before spoken of; the 
stem was literally worn to within an inch and a half of the wood- 
ends. After repairing this, by scraping the stem and putting on a 
new cut-water, they made use of a diving apparatus to place the new 
braces, and mend the copper that was broken. 
Although they were removed some distance from Sydney and its 
vile grog-shops, despite the utmost caution to prevent the crew from 
procuring spirits, it was found that a plan had been formed to supply 
them with it. In a hut near by, lived an Irishman, familiarly called 
Paddy, who acted as a kind of suttler, in supplying the messes of the 
officers and men with fresh bread and milk, and also doing the washing. 
After a few days it was discovered that the men were obtaining sore 
extra allowance of spirits, and suspicions naturally enough fell on 
Paddy as the cause of this irregularity, and its consequent disturb- 
ances. Orders were therefore given to search him, on his next visit to 
the ship; this fully confirmed the suspicions and his presence on board 
was at once interdicted. 
Paddy had no idea of being thus defeated in reaping his harvest 
from the ship’s company; he therefore enlisted in his service a man, 
if possible, of a worse character than himself, whom he kept con- 
stantly supplied with rum, brandy, and gin from Sydney, and made 
it known to the crew that he was ready to furnish his former custo- 
mers. ‘The men soon managed, under various pretexts, to visit his hut, 
and supply themselves at the expense of their clothing, or some other 
equivalent. This new arrangement succeeded for a time, but was at 
length detected, and the nuisance wholly stopped; steps were also 
taken for the punishment of the offenders, by making a complaint 
against them, which caused the apprehension of Paddy and his 
partner, and he was required to pay a fine of £30, or be imprisoned 
for six months. 
Paddy was not the only annoyance they had to encounter. Another 
was the poisonous snakes that infest the secluded nooks of Mossman’s 
Bay, numbers of which were daily seen near the ship; among them 
