ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY 



[April, 



CHAP. VIII. 



THE SUPPLY ARRIVES FROM NORFOLK ISLAND. — A CANOE DESTROYED.-— 



ITS EVIL EFFECTS. — CORN SOWN. BATTERY BEGUN. — GROUND INCLOSED 



FOR CATTLE. THE MARY ANN ARRIVES, — RATION IMPROVED. THE 



MATILDA ARRIVES.— -THE MARY ANN SAILS FOR NORFOLK ISLAND.—* 



SETTLERS. — THE ATLANTIC AND SALAMANDER ARRIVE. FULL RATION 



ISSUED. — THE WILLIAM AND ANN ARRIVES. — NATIVES. PUBLIC WORKS. 



— THE SALAMANDER SAILS FOR, AND THE MARY ANN ARRIVES FROM, 

 NORFOLK ISLAND. THE GORGON ARRIVES. COMMISSION OF EMANCIPA- 

 TION, AND PUBLIC SEAL. THE ACTIVE AND QUEEN ARRIVE. COM- 

 PLAINTS AGAINST THE MASTER OF THE QUEEN. THE ALBEMARLE AR- 

 RIVES. — MUTINY ON BOARD. — TRANSACTIONS, — PUBLIC WORKS. — IRISH 



CONVICTS ABSCOND. WHALE-FISHERY. — RATION ALTERED. SUPPLY 



SAILS FOR ENGLAND. — GROUNDS IN CULTIVATION. — SICK. — WHALE- 

 FISHERY GIVEN UP. MARINES EMBARK. RATION REDUCED. CONVICTS 



EMANCIPATED. — DEATHS IN I 791- 



Jy|TJGH anxiety was excited in the colony on account of the long 

 and unufual abfence of the Supply, which failed for Norfolk 

 Ifland on the 2 2d day of March, and did not return till the 30th of 

 April. Contrary winds and heavy gales had prevented her arrival at 

 the time when me might have been reafonably expected ; £he was 

 three weeks on her paffage back, and was blown off the ifland for 

 eleven days. 



'Three officers, two non-commiffioned officers, one drummer, and 

 twenty privates of the marine detachment, arrived in the Supply. 

 The weather had been as dry at Norfolk Ifland as it had been at Port 

 Jackfon ; which, with the blighting winds, had confiderably injured 

 all the gardens, and particularly fome crops of potatoes. Of the 

 great fertility of the foil every account brought the ftrongeft confirma- 



1 tion ; 



