OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



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On the 27 th the Marquis Cornwallis arrived from the Gape of Good 

 Hope, with a cargo of cattle on Government's account, confifting of 

 158 cows and 20 bulls. 



Inftead of living peaceably and pleafantly at the Governor's houfe, 

 as he certainly always might have done, Ben-nil-long preferred the 

 rude and dangerous fociety of his own countrymen j vifiting the fet- 

 tlement only when induced by the recollection of the comforts which 

 he could no where elfe obtain. Intelligence now reached the town 

 that he was again dangeroufly wounded. This man had lately re- 

 ceived and recovered of feverai wounds, any of which would have 

 been fufficient to have destroyed a European. But thefe people, in 

 general, owed their exiftence more to their good habit of body (living 

 free from the ufe of fpirituous liquors and the luxuries of the table) 

 than to any other caufe. Unlefs this be admitted, it will be difficult 

 to account for their furviving the defperate wounds which they had 

 been often known to receive. 



We annex a Portrait of Ben-nil-long in his European drefs. 



