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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [September, 



but, getting on fhore in Manly Bay, was killed by the natives, and 

 was the caufe of numbers of them being affembled to partake of the 

 repafts which it afforded them. 



Since the efcape of Bennillong, the native, in May, nothing had 

 been heard of him, nor had any thing worthy of notice occurred 

 among the other natives. In the beginning of September, they w T ere 

 brought forward again by a circumftance which feemed at firfl to 

 threaten the colony with a lofs that muft have been for fome time 

 feverely felt ; but which was fucceeded by an opening of that ami- 

 cable intercourfe with thefe people which the Governor had always 

 laboured to eftablifh, and which was at laft purchafed by a mod 

 unpleafant accident to himfelf, and at the rifk of his life. 



Governor Phillip, who had uniformly direded every undertaking in 

 perfon fince the formation of the colony, went down in the morning 

 of the 7th to the South Head, accompanied by two officers, to give 

 fome inftrudions to the people employed in erecting a column at 

 that place. As he was returning to the fettlement, he received infor- 

 mation, by a boat which had landed fome gentlemen in the lower 

 part of the harbour, who were going on an excurfion to Broken Bay, 

 that Bennillong had been feen there by them, and had fent the 

 Governor, as a prefent, a piece'of the whale which was then lying in 

 the warn of the furf on the beach. Anxious to fee him again, the 

 Governor, after taking fome arms from the party at the Look-out 

 (which he thought the more requifite in this vifit, as he heard that the 

 cove was full of natives), went down and landed at the place where 

 the whale was lying. There he not only faw Bennillong, but Cole-be 

 alfo, who had made his efcape from the Governor's houfe a few 

 days after his capture. At firft his Excellency trufted himfelf alone 

 with thefe people ; but the few months that Bennillong had been away 

 had fo altered his perfon, that the Governor, until joined by his 

 companions, did not perfectly recoiled his old acquaintance. This 

 native had been always much attached to Captain Collins, one of 

 ibe gentlemen then with the Governor, and teftified with much 



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