•id" ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [Jims* 



of his employers. Mr. Raven afforded another inftance of the great 

 difficulty attending the tranfporting of cattle to that country ; for, 

 notwithftanding the extreme care and attention which had been paid 

 to them, twenty-nine of the cows and three goats unfortunately died. 



From the length of time which the Britannia had been abfent, ob- 

 fervation was forcibly drawn to the diftance whereat this colony 

 was placed from any quarter which could furnifti it with fupplies ; 

 and a calculation of the length of time which had been taken by 

 other fhips to procure them, confirmed the neceflity that exifted 

 of ufing every exertion which might place it in a ftate of inde- 

 pendence. 



The difficulty of introducing cattle into the colony had been ren- 

 dered evident by the mifcarriage of the different attempts made by 

 the feveral (hips. In this particular they had indeed been Angularly 

 unfortunate ; for they had not only loft the greater part of what had 

 been purchafed and embarked for the colony, as will have appeared ; 

 but they had at the beginning, as may be remembered, loft the few 

 that did furvive the paffage. Of thefe, it was not known with any 

 certainty what had been the fate. Some of the natives who refided 

 in the fettlement, on obferving cattle which had been landed, declared 

 that they had feen fuch animals deftroyed by their own people; and 

 even offered to lead any one to the place where fome of their bones 

 might be found ; but, from the diftance of the fuppofed foot, and 

 more important concerns, this had never been fought after. It was 

 very probable that they had been fo deftroyed ; if not, and that they 

 had met with no other accident, their increafe at this time muft have 

 been very confiderable. 



Of the ftock which had been landed in the colony, there remained 

 at this time three bulls, twenty-one cows, feven calves. Sheep, horfes, 

 and hogs, were found to endure, better than any other ftock, the rough 

 weather which was in general met with between the, Cape of Good 

 Hope and that country. 



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