418 L. HARGRAVE. 



The drawings of people are, in most cases, Australian 

 natives who came to visit the camps in a friendly or war- 

 like manner. The arms and implements are what the 

 Australian native visitors carried. The animals, birds and 

 fish are the game that stocked the larder. 



An incident is depicted where a native was shot in 

 the heart with an arrow. No Australian natives are 

 archers, Peruvians are or were. This figure is very 

 instructive. The size, 15 feet long, shows the general 

 peacefulness of the intercourse with the natives, and 

 perhaps the only instance of bloodshed. It shows that 

 the hunter of 1600 could exaggerate the size of his game 

 quite as well as the hunters and fishermen of 1900. It 

 shows that the native was slain by a bowman, and not by 



of the most unlikely in the harbour to have been selected on which to 

 careen a ship., as a vessel hauled to the ringbolts would have been on the 

 rocks, and as this point is exposed to the full effects of the north-easterly 

 winds, the destruction of the vessel would be the consequence. 



" Previous to 1819 this locality was known as Eliza Point, and on it 

 Captain John Piper had built a handsome residence, which he named 

 Henrietta Villa. Being of a very hospitable nature, this gentleman was 

 given to holding fetes on this property. The first was when the found- 

 ation-stone was laid ; another was in September, 1817, when 120 guests 

 were present, most of whom were conveyed by water, by a brig called 

 "Alert." Again, we are told a " fete champetre" was held on this point, 

 on which day (December 2, 1819) the name was changed to Elizabeth 

 Henrietta Point. At this were present the Lieutenant-Governor (Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel Erskine), Captain Freycinet, of the French man-of-war 

 "Uranie," Mr. Commissioner Bigge, and his secretary, Mr. Hobbes Scott, 

 as well as all the legal, naval, and military officers. 



" My reason for stating these particulars is to show that Captain Piper 

 having built a large house in about 1815, the workmen were convicts ; the 

 materials would be brought by water as the easiest mode of transit. At 

 the functions the guests were conveyed by water. Everything, therefore, 

 points to the convicts having cut " the carvings " on the rocks. They 

 are decidedly not aboriginal, and, in my opinion, were not done by 

 Peruvian slaves. The figure of the man is the rough outline of a convict 

 triced up to the triangles to be flogged ; the extended arms and legs, the 

 trousers bagged at the knees, the heavy-looking feet, all point to this. 

 The ringbolts all tend to the belief that they wore used in the days 

 when this point was occupied by its first resident, and his large retinue 

 of (convict) servants. The other carvings can be explained in the same 

 way, and I think, if we look at the subject in a less sentimental or 

 romantic manner, these suggestions of mine may lead to the true inter- 

 pretation." (Signed) James H. Watson, 



President, Australian Historical Society." 



