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^ Dc^ ^' ^ ^'^-^^^'^^ ifiand within the bay, where they were kept on 
' — bread and water. Thefe men had frequently robbed the 
ftores, and the other convi6ls. He who fufFered, and 
two others, had been dete6ted in fteahng from the fiores 
the very day that they had received a week's provifion ; 
at a time when their allowance, as fettled by the Navy 
Eoard, was the fame as that of the foldiers, fpirituous 
liquors excepted. So inveterate were their habits of 
difhonefty, that even the apparent want of a motive 
could not reprefs them. 
March 2, On the 2d of March Governor PhilliD went with a 
long boat and cutter to examine the broken land, men- 
tioned by Captain Cook, about eight miles to the north- 
ward of Port Jackfon, and by him named Broken Bay. 
This bay proved to be very extenlive. The firft night 
they flept in the boats, within a rocky point in the 
north-weft part of the bay, as the natives, though 
friendly, appeared to be numicrous ; and the next day, 
after paffing a bar that had only water for fmall velTels, 
they entered a very extenlive branch, from which the 
ebb tide came oat fo ftrong that the boats could not row 
againft it in the ftream ; and here was deep water. This 
opening appeared to end in feveral fmall branches, and 
in a large lagoon which could not then be examined, as 
there was not time to feek a channel for the boats among 
the banks of fand and mud. Moft of the land in the 
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