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them that humanity fuggefted. The cripple in a inort time found 

 means to efcape, and by fwimming reached the north more in fafety, 

 whence no doubt he got back to his friends. Captain Paterfon hoped 

 that by detaining the prifoners, and treating them well, fome good 

 effect might refuit ; but rinding, after fome time, that coercion, not 

 attention, was more likely to anfwer his ends, he fent the woman 

 back. While fhe had been at the fettlement the wounded child died ; 

 and one of the women was delivered of a boy, which died imme- 

 diately. On the foldiers withdrawing, the natives attacked a farm 

 nearly oppofite Richmond Hill, and put a fettler and his fon to death: 

 the wife, after receiving feveral wounds, crawled down the bank, and 

 concealed herfelf among fome reeds half immerfed in the river, where 

 fhe remained a confiderable time without afTiftance : being at length 

 found, this poor, creature, after having feen her hufband and her 

 child flaughtered before her eyes, was taken into the hofpital at Parra- 

 matta, where fhe recovered, though flowly, of her wounds. In con- 

 fequence of this horrid circumftance, another party of the corps was 

 fent out ; and while they were there the natives kept at a diftance* 

 This duty now became permanent ; and the foldiers were diftributed 

 among the fettlers for their protection: a protection, however, that 

 many of them ciid not merit. 



Pe-mul-wy, or fome of his party, were not idle about Sydney; they 

 even ventured to appear within half a mile of the. Brickfield huts 5 and 

 wounded a convict who w T as going to a neighbouring farm. As one 

 of the moll frequented walks from the town lay in that direction, this 

 circumftance was at firft very unpleafant ; but the natives were not 

 feen there any more. 



On the i ith; the pleafant intelligence of Mr. Bampton's arrival from 

 Bombay was difperfed through the fettlement* He commanded the 

 Endeavour, a Chip of eight hundred tons, and had on board one hun- 

 dred and thirty-two bead of cattle, a quantity of rice, and the other 

 articles of the contract engaged in by Lieutenant-Governor Groie, 

 except the fait provifions. She had been eleven weeks from Bombay, 



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