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where they were elegantly entertained, and had reafon to 
be pleafed in all refpe6ls with his behaviour and difpo- 
lition. Yet the minds of his people were not at this 
time in a tranquil ft ate ; the accounts from Holland 
were fuch as occafioned much uneafinefsj and great pre- 
parations were making at the fort, from apprehenfion - 
of a rupture with fome other power. 
hi the courfe of a month, the live ftock and other 
provifions were procured ; and the fliips, having on board r 
not lefs than five hundred animals of different kinds, 
but chiefly poultry, put on an appearance which natu- 
rally enough excited the idea of Noah's ark. This fup- 
ply, conlidering that the country had previoully fuf- 
fered from a dearth, was very confiderable ; but it was 
purchafed of courfe at a higher expence coniiderably / 
than it would have been in a time of greater plenty. 
On the 1 2th of November the fleet fet fail, and was :2th Novem, 
17S7. , 
for many days much delayed by ftrong winds from the 
fouth-eaft. On the 25th, being then only 80 leagues 25th Novem, 
to the eaftward of the Cape, Governor Phillip left the 
Sirius and went on board the Supply tender ; in hopes, 
by leaving the convoy, to gain fufhcient time for ex- 
amining the country round Botany Bay, fo as to fix on 
the iituation moft eligible for the colony, before the 
tranfports flioukl arrive. At the fame time he ordered 
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