VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
ftow. It is, however, much to be lamented that the quantity 
we could £nd room for fell very fhort of what we ought to 
have taken in ; as the only fpare room we had, was what had 
been occafioned by the confumption of provifions, &c. fince 
vVe left Rio de Janeiro, and the removal of twenty female 
convids from the Friendfhip into the Charlotte, the Lady Pen- 
rhyn, and the Prince of Wales. 
After the fupplics had been granted, his excellency Governor 
Graaf invited the commodore, and many of the officers of the 
expedition, to a very handfome dinner at his town refidcnce. 
The houfe at which we were entertained, is delightfully 
fituated, nearly in the centre of an extenfive garden, the 
property of the Dutch Eaft India company, ufefully planted, 
and at the fame time elegantly laid out. The governor's 
family make what ufe they pleafe of the produce of the 
garden, which is various and abundant ; but the original 
intention of the company in appropriating fo extenfive a 
piece of ground to this purpofe was, that their hofpital, 
which is generally pretty full when their fliips arrive after 
long voyages, may be well fupplied with fruits and vegeta- 
bles, and likewife that their fhips may receive a fimilar 
fupply. 
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