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Bal-loo der ry, the profcribed native, having ventured into the town 

 with fome of his friends, one or two armed parties were fent to feize 

 him ; and a fpear having been thrown (it was faid by him) two muf- 

 quets were fired, by which one of his companions was wounded in 

 the leg; but Bal-loo der-ry was not taken. On the following day it 

 was given out in orders, that he was to be taken whenever an oppor- 

 tunity offered ; and that any native attempting to throw a fpear in his 

 defence (as it was well known among them why vengeance was de- 

 nounced againft him) was, if poflible, to be prevented from efcaping 

 with impunity. 



Thofe who knew this favage regretted that it had been neceffary to 

 treat him with this harfhnefs, as among his countrymen they had no 

 where feen a finer young man. The perfon who had been wounded 

 by him in June was not yet recovered. 



Difcharging the tranfports formed the principal labour during Au- 

 guft. The fhingles on the old hofpital being much decayed, they 

 were removed, and the building covered with tiles. 



The convicts at Parramatta were employed in opening fome ground ; 

 and it was expected, from the exertions they were making, that be- 

 tween forty and fifty acres would be foon ready for fowing with Indian 

 corn for that feafon. 



It became neceffary to land the cargo brought out in the Sala- 

 mander, for the purpofe of re-flowing it in a manner convenient for 

 getting it out at Norfolk Iiland while the (hip was under fail. The 

 great inconvenience attending landing a cargo in fuch a fituation had 

 been pointed out in letters which could not yet have been attended to. 

 It was at the fame time fuggefted, that fhips mould be freighted pur- 

 pofely for Norfolk Ifland, with cafks and bales adapted to the fize of 

 the ifland boats, which would in a great meafure leffen the inconve- 

 nience above-mentioned. 



On the 3d of September, near two hundred male convicls, with a 

 ferjeant's party of the New South Wales corps, fome ftores and provi- 

 fions, having been put on board the Salamander, flic failed for Nor- 



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