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life together. Cole-be, after receiving feveral blows on the head, was 

 fuppofed to have been difpatched ; but Mo-roo-bra, feeing him revive 

 and attempting to rife, returned to finifli his favage bufinefsj which 

 fo exafperated another native, that in a rage he threw a fpear with all 

 his force at Mo-roo-bra, which entered his right fide, juft over the 

 hip-bone, and went inclining downwards quite through the body, 

 penetrating the bladder in its pafTage. Of this wound he died in about 

 an hour. On the fame evening this generous fellow was attacked by 

 the friends of the deceafed in the ufual way ; and, as might be 

 expected, defended himfelf with great gallantry, but received two 

 wounds. 



Toward the latter end of the month an Irifh convicT, who had 

 been fome time miffing, was brought in. He had wandered about for 

 feveral days in fearch of a road to China, or the colony where no 

 labour was required ; but his ftrength failing with his provifions, he 

 grew faint, as w T ell as faint-hearted ; and, defpairing of meeting with 

 any relief, he had juft fenfe fufficient to reverie the written inftru&ions 

 which had been calculated folely to carry him out, directing him t© 

 keep the fun on a particular part of his body, varying according to 

 the time of the day. By this means he reached nearly to the head of 

 George's River, where, to his great joy, he was met by a fettler, w r ho, 

 after detaining him at his houfe till his exhaufted ftrength was reco«r 

 vered, accompanied him to Sydney. On being queftioned how he 

 found his way back, he faid, " that a paper compais which had been 

 given him was of no ufe at all at all ; he therefore kept his face toward 

 the place where the fun came from ; but if the Lord had not been on. 

 his fide, he fhould have been loft ; for he had been two whole days 

 without any food, except a little flour and water." 



On the firft of February the Francis was again difpatched to the 

 wreck of the Sydney-Cove. 



When Ben-nil-long accompanied Governor Phillip to England in 

 {he year 1792, he left a young wife to deplore his abfence. The 

 manners of favages, in this inftance, were iound iomewhat to refem- 



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