NEW SOUTH WALES. 
2.^ 
Become the property of many, but Maheine's refeiit- 
ment, it feems, was levelled at O'too only. ■ 
July, 17884 
Great numbers of the natives had been carried off by 
the venereal difeafe, which they had caught from their 
connections with the crews of the Refoiution and Dif- 
covery ; nor were the women fo free froiri this com- 
plaint as formerly, efpecially the lowefl clafs, the better 
fort feemingiy not wiiliing to hazard the catching fo 
terrible a diforder* The people having recovered in a 
moft allonidiing manner, and being now able to affill " . .. , 
in the duties of the fhip, Captain Sever thought it . 
advifeable to run down amongft the Society Ifles, as they . 
had got a plentiful fupply of provilions on board ; ac- 
cordingly, they got under way before daylight in the . 
morning of the 23d. The natives foon took the alarm, Wedneraay 23 
and the breeze flackening, they were foon crowded with 
viiitors, none of whom came empty handed. Their 
friends parted from them with great reluClance, and the 
fuddennefs of their departure feemed to difappoint the 
natives greatly ; indeed, they would not have left the 
place fo abruptly, had they not been apprehenfive that . ' 
if their intention was knov/n, the Indians v/ould have . • .' 
flocked on board in too great numbers, and have been ■ " ■ . 
troublefome. They had the fatisfadion of leaving this 
Ifland in perfe6l amity with the natives, and it is but 
doing them juftice to fay, that during the time the Lady 
Penrhyn 
