VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
bending our courfe down the river. Some places along 
the fhore, where the tide had flowed fo as to obftrud our 
paflage, we were obliged to ford; and, at times, we were under 
the neceflity of climbing heights nearly inacceflible. At length, 
after undergoing much fatigue, we were agreeably furprifed, 
and cheered, with the flght of two boats, fent by Captain 
Hunter to meet us, and jufl: then coming up with the 
tide. By them we learnt, that Lieutenant Ball, with his 
enfeebled party, had arrived fafe at the fhip the day after 
they had quitted us. We all went on board the boats, 
and fell down the river till we got to a pleafant little cove, 
where we dined, with great fatisfadtion and comfort, upon 
the welcome provifions which were fent in the boats by 
the governor's fteward. After having refreflied ourfelves, 
we again embarked, and about fix o'clock in the evening 
arrived in Sydney Cove. 
We werelikewife able, during this excurfion, to take one of 
the Gold-winged Pigeons, of which a plate is annexed. This 
bird is a curious and Angular fpecies, remarkable for having 
moft of the feathers of the wing marked with a brilliant fpot 
of golden yellow, changing, in various refledions of light, to 
green and copper-bronze; and, when the wing is clofed, 
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