CONTENTS. 



CHAP, 



tions.— Whale.— Governor Phillip wounded by a native.— Inter- 

 courfe opened with the natives.— Great haul of fifh.— Convicts 

 abfcond with a boat. — Works. — Want of rain. - 



VII. Natives.— The Supply returns from Batavia.— Tranfactions there. — 

 Criminal courts. —A boat with five people loft. — Public works. — A 

 convict wounded by a native.— Armed parties fent out to avenge 

 him.— A Dutch veflel arrives with fupplies from Batavia. — Decreafe 

 by ficknefs and cafualties in 1790. — A native killed. -Signal colours 



ftolen. — The Supply fails for Norfolk Ifland.— Public works 



Terms offered for the hire of the Dutch fnow to England.— The 

 Supply returns with Captain Hunter from Norfolk Ifland.— Tranfac- 

 tions.— The Supply fails again for Norfolk Ifland, and the Waakfam- 

 heyd for England. — William Bryant and other convicts efcape. — 

 Ration reduced. — Orders refpccling marriage.— Port regulations. 



VIII. The Supply arrives from Norfolk Ifland.— A canoe deftroyed ; — its evil 

 effects.— Corn fown.— Battery begun. — Ground inclofed for cattle. 

 — The Mary Ann arrives. — Ration improved. — The Matilda arrives. 



— The Mary Ann fails for Norfolk Ifland Settlers. — The Atlantic 



and Salamander arrive.— -Full ration iflued.— The William and Ann 

 arrives. — Natives.— Public works. — The Salamander fails for, and 



the Mary Ann arrives from, Norfolk Ifland. — The Gorgon arrives 



Commimon of emancipation, and public feal. — The Active and 

 Queen arrive.— Complaints againft the mailer of the Queen. — The 

 Albemarle arrives.— Mutiny on board.— Tranfactions.— Public 

 works — Irifh convicts abfcond.— Whale fiftiery. — Ration altered,. — 

 Supply fails for England.— Grounds in cultivation. — Sick..— Whale- 

 fiihery given up. — Marines embark.— Ration reduced.— Convicts 

 emancipated.— Deaths in 1791. 



IX. The Queen fails for Norfolk Ifland. — Whalers on their fifliing voyages. — 

 Convicts mifling.— Depredations.— Proclamation. — Convict executed. 

 —The Pitt with Lieutenant-Governor Grofe arrives.— Goods felling. 

 — Sicknefs.— The Pitt fails — Mr. Burton killed.— Stormy weather. 

 —Public works. — Regulations refpecting perfons who had ferved 

 their terms of tranfportation. —Natives.— Mortality in April Ap- 

 pearance and ftate of the convicts.— Ration again reduced. — Quan- 

 tity of flour in Store. — Settlers.— State of tranfactions with the 

 natives — Public works.— Average prices of grain, &c. at Sydney 

 and at Parramatta.— Mortality decreafes.— King's birth-day. -The 



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