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guifhed from each other, but by being found inhabiting particular 

 refidences, there would be fome difficulty in determining, if any na- 

 tives mould fall in their way, whether they were the obje&s of their 

 expedition, or fome unoffending family wholly unconne&ed with 

 them. The very circumftance, however, of a party being armed and 

 detached purpofely to punifh the man and his companions who had 

 wounded a white man, was likely to have a good effedt^ as it was 

 well known to feveral natives, who were at this time in the town of 

 Sydney, that this was the intention with which they were fent out. 



On the third day after their departure they returned without having 

 hurt a native, or made a prifoner. They had feen fome at the head 

 of Botany Bay, and fired at them, but without doing any injury. 

 Whenever the party was feen by the natives, they fled with incredible 

 fwiftnefs ; nor had a fecond attempt, which the Governor directed, 

 any better fuccefs. 



The Governor, now determining to avail himfelf as much as poffible 

 of the health and ftrength of the working convicts, while by the en- 

 joyment of a full ration they were capable of exertion, refolved to 

 proceed with fuch public buildings as he judged to be neceffary for 

 the convenience of the different fettlements. Accordingly, the foun- 

 dation of another ftorehoufe was laid, equal in dimenfions and in a 

 line with that already ere&ed on the Eaft fide of the cove at Sydney. 



On the 17th the Dutch fnow the Waaldamheyd anchored in the 

 cove from Batavia, having left that place on the 20th of September, 

 and met on her pafTage with contrary winds. She had been manned 

 principally with Malays, fixteen of whom fhe buried during the 

 pafTage. 



The mafter produced a packet from the Sabandhaaf (his owner) at 

 Batavia, inclofing two letters to the Governor ; one was written in 

 very good EngliOi, containing fuch particulars refpeding the veffel as 

 he judged it for his intereft to communicate; the other, which was 

 defigned to convey fuch information as he poiTefled receding Euro- 

 pean politics, being written in Dutch, unfortunately proved unintel- 



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