VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
30th. John Freeman was tried for ftealing from another 
convidl feven pounds of flour. He was convid:ed, and 
fentenced to be hanged ; but while under the ladder, with 
the rope about his neck, he was offered his free pardon 
on condition of performing the duty of the common exe- 
cutioner as long as he remained in this country; which, 
after fome little paufe, he reludantly accepted. William 
Sheerman, his accomplice, was fentenced to receive on his 
bare back, with a cat-o'nine- tails, three hundred lafhes, 
which Vere inflidled. 
A New Holland Cajfowary was brought into camp. This 
bird ftands feven feet high, meafuring from the ground to 
the upper part of the head, and, in every refpedl, is 
much larger than the common Cajjowary of all authors, and 
differs fo much therefrom, in its form, as to clearly prove 
it a new fpecies. The colour of the plumage is greatly 
flmilar, conflfting of a mixture of dirty brown and grey; 
on the belly it was fomewhat whiter ; and the remarkable 
ftrufture of the feathers, in having two quills with their 
webs ariflng out of one fhaft, is feen in this as well as the 
common fort. It differs materially in wanting the horny 
appendage on the top of the head. The head and beak 
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