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1 72 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [June, 



which mufl fhortly, unlefs fuccour arrived, take place in the ration*, 

 would inevitably be followed by a diminution of the daily labour. 



On the 20th, however, to the inexpreffible joy of all ranks of 

 people in the fettlement, the Atlantic ftorefhip anchored in the cove, 

 with a cargo of rice, foujee, and dholl, from Calcutta, She had been 

 much longer performing her voyage than was expected, owing to fome 

 delay in procuring the articles required, and to her having befides met 

 with much bad weather, and fome heavy gales of wind. She brought 

 two bulls and a cow of the Bengal breed, together with twenty fheep 

 and twenty goats ; but thefe were of fo diminutive a fpecies, that, 

 unlefs the breed could be confiderably improved by that already in 

 the country, very little benefit was for a length of time to be expected 

 from their importation. Various feeds and plants alfo were received 

 from the company's botanical garden. 



Information was received from Calcutta of the lofs of his Majefty's 

 ihip Pandora, Captain Edwards, who had been among the Friendly 

 Iflands in fearch of Chriftian and his piratical crew, fourteen of whom 

 he had fecured, and was returning with the purpofe of furveying 

 Endeavour Straits, when he unfortunately ftruck upon a reef in lati- 

 tude 23I 0 , eleven degrees only to the northward of Port Jackforr. 

 By his boats he providentially reached Timor with ninety-nine of 

 his officers and people, being all of the fhip's company that were 

 faved. At Timor, on his arrival, he found Bryant and his compa- 

 nions, who had made their efcape from Sydney in the fifhing cutter 

 in March 1791. Thefe people had framed and told a plaufible tale 

 of diftrefs, of their having been caft away at fea ; and this for a time 

 was believed ; but they foon, by their language to each other, and 

 by practicing the tricks of their former profeffion, gave room for 

 fufpicion ; and being taken up, their true characters and the circum- 

 ftances of their efcape were divulged. The Dutch Governor of 

 Timor delivered them to Captain Edwards, who took them on 

 with him to Batavia, whence he was to proceed to England. The 



circumftance 



