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Englim cuftoms, that he made ufe of his fifts inftcad of the weapons 

 of his country, to the great annoyance of Carney, who would have 

 preferred meeting his rival fairly in the field armed with the fpear and 

 the club. Carney being much the younger man, the lady, every inch 

 a woman, followed her inclination, and Ben-nil-long was compelled to 

 yield her without any further oppofition. He feemed to have been 

 fatisfied with the beating that he had given Caruey, and hinted, that, 

 retting for the prefent without a wife, he mould look about him, and 

 at fdme future period make a better choice. His abfence from the 

 Governor's houfe now became frequent, and little attended to. When 

 he went out he ufually left his clothes behind, carefully renaming them, 

 on his return, before he made his vifit to the Governor. 



During November, one man and a woman, attempting to crofs a 

 creek at the Hawkefbury by a tree which had been thrown over, fell 

 in and were drowned j and one man had died there, of the bite of a 

 fnake. Three male convicts died at Sydney.. 



The harveft was begun early in December ; when the Cape wheat 

 (a bearded kind of grain differing much from the Englifh) was found, 

 univerfally to have failed, and was pronounced not worth the labour of 

 fowing, 



A quantity of ufeful timber having been for fome time paft indis- 

 criminately cut down upon the banks of the river Hawkefbury, and 

 the creeks running from it,, which had been wafied, or applied to pur- 

 pofes for which timber of lefs value would have anfwered equally well,, 

 the Governor, among other colonial regulations, thought it neceffary 

 to direct, that no timber whatever mould be cut down, on any ground 

 which was not marked out on either the banks or creeks of that river : 

 and,, in order to preferve as much as polTiblefuch timber; as might be 

 of ufe either for building or for naval purpofes, he ordered the king's 

 mark to be immediately put on all fuch timber ; after which any per- 

 fons offending againff the order were to be profecuted. This order ex- 

 tended only to grounds not granted to individuals, there being a claufe 

 in all grants from the crown, exprefsly referving, under pain of for- 



feiture ? 



