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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [February, 



ble thofe of civilized life. The lady furrendered to the importunities 

 of a youthful lover; and of him fhe became fo enamoured, that 

 neither the entreaties, the menaces, nor the prefents of her hufband at 

 Jiis return, could induce her to leave him. From that time fhe was 

 confidered by every one, Ben-nii-long excepted, as the wife of Ca- 

 ru-ey. He, finding himfelf neglected by other females whofe fmiies 

 he courted (after the fafhion of his country indeed), fometimes fought 

 to balance the mortification by the forced embraces of his wife ; but, 

 her fcreams generally bringing her lover to her affiftance, he was not 

 often fuccefsful. In one of thefe attempts he came off with a fevere 

 wound in the head, the lady and her lover laughing very heartily at 

 the rage which it occafioned. 



The Governor having been informed, by fome natives who dwelt 

 in the neighbourhood of the Cow-pafture plains, that feveral of the 

 wild cattle had been killed, and imagining this mifchief to have been 

 done by fome of the irifh convicls (who were nearly as wild as the 

 cattle), a party of the military, with Hacking, a man well acquainted 

 with that part of the country, was fent out, having orders to furprife, 

 and if poffible to fecure them. After being abfent fome days, they 

 returned, and reported, that, having fearched the country round, no 

 traces were to be feen of the cattle in any of the places where they 

 had been accuftomed to range, nor did they meet with any white peo- 

 ple ; but the natives perfifted in aflerting their having feen white men 

 in that quarter, and added that fome of the calves had been run 

 down by them. This was not impoffible, and the idea was fome- 

 what ftrengthened, by their finding feveral fhort fpears pointed with 

 the leg bone of the kangooroo, which were fuppofed to be defigned 

 for (tabbing the calves when caught. Although it was the opinion of 

 thefe people, that the cattle had quitted the part of the country in 

 which they had been fo long known to graze, there was yet much 

 reafon to believe that this was not the cafe ; for on vifiting them 

 before, they were not always found in the fame fpot. 



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