NEW SOUTH W ALES. 
of their aflaiiants had been entirely unwarranted, and 
was very highly difapproved. He judged the attempt 
to be at lead worth making, as it feenied the only way 
to reftore that confidence which muil have been inter- 
rupted by this affair. The next day, therefore, he Vt^ent 
out with a fmall party, confifcing altogether of twelve 
perfons, and landed at the place where the men were 
killed. After traverfing the country for more than 
twenty miles, they arrived at the north fliore of Botany 
Bay, without having met with one of the natives. 
In this place, at length, they faw about tw^enty canoes 
employed in fifiiing : and when the fires were made, 
and the party encamped to pafs the night upon the 
beach, it v/as fully expedled that fome of thofe in the 
canoes would have joined them, but not one appeared. 
The next morning, though fifty canoes were drawn up 
on the beach, not a fingle perfon could be found be- 
longing to them. Governor Phillip had now determined 
to return to Port Jackfon ; but as he went, keeping for 
fome time near the fea coafi, he difcovered a great num- 
ber of the natives, apparently more than could be- 
long to that diftri6l, affembled at the mouth of a 
cave. The party was within ten yards of them before 
they were perceived, and the Governor had hardly time 
to make his people halt before numbers appeared in 
arms. The man who feemed to take the lead, as he 
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