YOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
a contrary line of conduA would fubjedt them to ignominy, 
feverities, and punifliment. When the ceremony was con- 
cluded, his excellency, attended by all the officers of the 
colony, withdrew to a tent pitched for the occafion, where 
a cold dinner was laid out ; and after the cloth was 
removed, many loyal and public toafts were drank. 
8th. A party of the gentlemen of the garrifon fet out 
by land to pay a vifit to the French at Botany Bay ; from 
whom they met with the moft hofpitable, polite, and 
friendly reception and treatment. Many of the convids 
who had been miffing had been at Botany Bay. They had 
offered themfelves to the French navigators on any terms, 
but not one of them had been received. This refufal 
obliged them to return ; and when they came back they 
were real objeds of pity. Confcious of the punifhment that 
awaited fo imprudent and improper an experiment, they 
had flayed out as long as the cravings of nature would per- 
mit, and were nearly half ftarved. A woman named Ann 
Smith, and a man, have never fince been heard of. They 
are fuppofed to have miffed their way as they returned, and 
to have periffied for want. As the French commodore had 
given his honour that he would not admit any of them on 
I board. 
