2o8 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [Apri^ 



fnen eftimable in fociety ; and the names of Malafpina, Buftamante, 

 Tova, Efpinofa, Concha, Cevallos, Murphy, Robredo, Quintano, 

 Viona, Novales, Pineda, Bauza, Heencke, Nee Ravenet, and Bram- 

 bila, were not likely to be foon forgotten by the officers of Sydney. 

 During their flay the greateft harmony fubfifted between the feamen 

 of the two fhips and their people, the latter in but few inftances exer- 

 cifing their nimble-fingered talents among them ; fuch, however, as 

 did choofe to hazard a difplay, and were detected, received fevere 

 punimment. 



A few days before the departure of thefe fhips the Ghefterfield re- 

 turned from Norfolk Ifiand. She had anchored for fome days in 

 Cafcade Bay, where Governor King had conftrudted a wharf, and had 

 hopes of making the landing more convenient than could ever be 

 practicable at Sydney Bay. This was truly a defideratum, as few 

 fhips had gone to this ifland without having, in the courfe of their 

 ftay, either been blown off, or been in fome danger on the fhore. 



The matter of the Shah Hoxmuzear having laid before the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor fome propofals for conveying cattle to that country, 

 they were taken into confideration ; and in a few days a contracT was 

 entered into between Mr. Bampton on his own part, and Major 

 Grofe^on the part of the crown; wherein it was covenanted, that Mr. 

 Bampton mould freight, at fome port in India, a fhip with one hun- 

 dred head of large draught cattle ; one hundred and fifty tons of the 

 beft provifion rice, and one hundred and fifty tons of the bed dholl, 

 both articles to be equal in quality to famples then produced ; and one 

 hundred tons of the beft Irifh-cured beef or pork ; or, in lieu of the 

 fait provifions, fifty tons of rice. For the cattle, Mr. Bampton was 

 to receive at the rate of thirty-five pounds fterling per head for all 

 that fhould land in a merchantable condition in the colony ; for the 

 rice, twenty-fix pounds fterling, and for the dholl, eighteen pounds 

 fterling for every merchantable ton which fhould be landed ; and laftly, 

 four-pence halfpenny per pound for the fait provifions. The mafter 



was 



