ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [March, 



*\vhich the fuperior effect of the fire-arms was fhewn them, and five 

 ■were inftantly killed. Unpleafant as it was to the Governor, that the 

 lives of fo many of thefe people fhould have been taken, no other 

 courfe could poflibly be purfued ; for it was their cuftom, when they 

 found themfelves more numerous and better armed than the white 

 people, to demand with infolence whatever they deemed proper ; and, 

 if refufed, to have recourfe to murder. This check, it was hoped, 

 would have a good effect : and Pe-mul-wy, who had received (even 

 buck-mot in his head and different parts of his body, was taken ex- 

 tremely ill to the hofpital. This favage was firft known in the fettlement 

 by the murder of John M'Intire in the year 1790 ; fince which he had 

 been a moft active enemy to the fettlers, plundering them of their 

 property, and endangering their perfonal fafety. 



During March, upwards of 100 men had been occupied in agricul- 

 ture at Toongabbe. A wind-mill was to be erected at Parramatta, 

 where the ftone-mafons and carpenters were preparing the materials. 

 At Sydney, a gang was employed in making bricks, where were 

 alfo completing a large granary and a ftrong log-prifon. All the 

 public brick buildings were likewife undergoing a repair, being crumb- 

 ling into ruins, as were all the boats belonging to Government : a new 

 flag-ftafF had likewife been ere&ed at South Head. The weather had 

 for the greater part of the month been very wet. 



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