1788.] 



OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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CHAP. II. 



BROKEN BAY VISITED. — M. DE LA PEROUSE SAILS. TRANS ACTIONS. — THE 



SUPPLY RETURNS. LORD HOWE ISLAND DISCOVERED. — SOME CONVICTS 



WOUNDED BY THE NATIVES. — SCURVY. — -EXCURSIONS INTO THE COUN- 

 TRY.— RETURN OF STOCK IN THE COLONY IN MAY. A CONVICT 



WOUNDED. SOME RUSH CUTTERS KILLED BY THE NATIVES. GOVERN- 

 OR'S EXCURSION. — BEHAVIOUR OF THE CONVICTS. — CATTLE LOST. 



NATIVES. EARTHQUAKE. TRANSPORTS SAIL FOR ENGL AND. — SUPPLY 



SAILS FOR NORFOLK ISLAN D.— -TRANSACTIONS. —~ N ATI Vn S , — CONVICTS'- 

 WOUNDED.. — HEAVY RAIN. — PUBLIC WORKS. — SFIEEP STOLEN.— -ISLAND' 

 DISCOVERED. — -FISH. IMPOSITION OF A CONVICT. — NATIVES. A CON- 

 VICT MURDERED. — 'THE SUPPLY RETURNS. — SETTLEMENT AT ROSE- 

 HILL.— STORE-SHIPS SAIL FOR ENGLAND. — A NATIVE TAKEN AND 

 BROUGHT UP TO THE SETTLEMENT. WE AT HER, — CLIMATE. RE- 

 PORT OF DEATHS. 



March.] E ARLY in March the Governor, accompanied by fome 

 officers, went by water to furvey the harbour of Broken Bay ; which 

 proved equal in magnitude to Port Jackfon, but the land in general 

 was very high, and in mod parts rocky and. barren. The weather 

 turned out very unfavourable to this excurfion in a country where the 

 rehdence for each night was to be provided for by the travellers them- 

 felves ; and feme of the party returned with dyfenteric complaints. 

 The weather at Port Jackfon had been equally adverfe to labour ; and 

 the Governor found, at his return, upwards of two hundred patients 

 under the furgeon's care, in confequence of the heavy rains that had 

 fallen. A building for the reception of the fick was now abfolutely 

 Decenary, and one was put in hand, to be divided into a difpenfary 

 (all the hofpital-ftores being at that time under tents), a ward for the 

 troops, and another for the convids. The heavy rains alfo pointed out 



the 



