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In honour of His Majefty's birth-day, an extra allowance of one 

 pound of fait meat, and the like quantity of rice, was iffued to the 

 garrifon and fettlement on the fourth of June ; and to the women and 

 children in proportion. 



The town which had been marked out at Role Hill, and which 

 now wore fomething of a regular appearance, on this occafion re- 

 ceived its name. The Governor calling it Par-ra-mat-ta, being the 

 name by which the natives diftinguifhed that part of the country on 

 which the town flood. 



Since the eftablifhment of that familiar intercourfe which now fub- 

 fifted between the fettlers and the natives, feveral of them had found 

 it their intereft to fell or exchange fifh among the people of Parra- 

 matta ; they being contented to receive a fmall quantity of either 

 bread or fait meat in barter for mullet, bream, and other fifh. To the 

 officers who refided there this proved a great convenience, and they 

 encouraged the natives to vifit them as often as they would bring 

 them fifh. There were, however, among the convicts fome who 

 were fo unthinking or fo depraved, as wantonly to deftroy a canoe 

 belonging to a fine young man, a native, who had left it at a little 

 diftance from the fettlement, and as he hoped out of the way of ob- 

 fervation, while he went with fome fifh to the huts. His rage at 

 finding Jiis canoe deftroyed was inconceivable : he threatened to take 

 his revenge, and in his own way, upon all white people. Three of 

 the fix people who had done him the injury, however, were fo well 

 defcribed by fome one who had feen them, that, being clofely pur- 

 fued, they were taken and punifhed, as were the remainder a few 

 days after. 



The inftant effecT: of this was, that the natives difcontinued the 

 bringing up of fifh ; and Bal-loo-der-ry, whofe canoe had been de- 

 ftroyed, although he had been taught to believe that one of the fix 

 convi&s had been hanged for the offence, meeting a few days after- 

 wards with a poor wretch who had ftrayed from Parramatta as far as 

 the Flats, he wounded him in two places with a fpear. This acl: of 



Bal-loo- 



