VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
were, by fignal from the Sirius, put to an allowance of three 
quarts of water per day, including that ufually allowed for 
cooking their provifions. In the courfe of the day a fteady 
breeze fprung up at N. E. About fix in the evening, the 
Fifhburne vidtualler carried away her fore-top-gallant yard, 
which fhe foon got replaced with another. 
7th and 8th. The weather continued dark and cloudy, 
with fome heavy fhowers of rain. On the evening of the 
8th, between the hours of three and four, Mary Broad, a 
convidb, was delivered of a fine girl. 
9th and loth. Fine, clear, dry weather. The commodore 
made a fignal for the convoy to clofe, being fcattered about 
at a confiderable diftance from him. 
iith, 1 2th, and 13th. Frefh breezes, with fudden fqualls 
and heavy rain. The four fucceeding days, light airs, and 
hazy, with fome fhowers, and a damp moift air. On the 
evening of the 17th, our longitude being, by fignal from 
the commodore, 31° 34' W. we caught a fhark fix feet long, 
of which the people made a good mefs. 
1 8th. Heavy rain, with dark and cold weather. Saw 
feveral albatrofles and pintado birds. 
19th. William Brown, a very well behaved convi6t, in 
bringing 
