182 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October, 



each were fubfcribed to purchafe the flock and other articles. Previous 

 to her departure the Royal Admiral Eaft-Indiaman anchored in the 

 cove from England, whence fhe had failed on the 30th of May. Her 

 paffage from the Cape of Good Hope was the moft rapid that had 

 ever been made, being only five weeks and three days from port to 

 port. On board of this fhip came ftores and provifions for the colony, 

 and one ferjeant with twenty privates of the New South Wales corps; 

 a perfon to be employed in the cultivation of the country ; another as 

 a mafter miller ; and a third as a mafter carpenter ; together with two 

 hundred and eighty-nine male, and forty-feven female convicts. She 

 brought in with her a fever, which had been much abated by the ex- 

 treme attention paid by Captain Bond and his officers to cleanlinefs, 

 that great prefervative of health on board {hips, and to providing 

 thofe who were ill with comforts and neceffaries beyond what were 

 allowed for their ufe during the paffage. Of three hundred male con- 

 victs which (he received on board, ten only died, and one made his 

 efcape from the hofpital at Falfe Bay ; in return for whom, how- 

 ever, Captain Bond had brought on with him a male convict, who 

 found means to get on more from the Pitt when at that port in De- 

 cember laft, and who had been confined by the Dutch at the Cape 

 Town from her departure until this opportunity offered offending him 

 to Port Jackfon. 



By the Royal Admiral they had the fatisfa&ion of hearing that the 

 Supply armed tender made good her paffage to England in fomewhat 

 lefs than five months. It was, however, matter of much concern to 

 all who were acquainted with him, to learn, at the fame time, that 

 Captain Hunter, who failed from this port in March, and who had 

 anxioufly defired to make a fpeedy paffage, had been thirteen months 

 performing it. His Majefty's fhip Gorgon had been at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, but had not arrived in England when the Royal Admiral 

 left that country. 



They were alfo informed, that the Kitty tranfport had failed with 

 provifions and a few convi&s from England fome weeks before Cap- 

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