VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
-carried them ofF ; making figm to him (as he interpreted 
them) to return to the camp. He further related, that after 
they had left him, he faw Burn in the pofTeflion of another 
party of the natives, who were dragging him along, with 
his head bleeding, and feemingly in great diftrefs ; while he 
himfelf was fo exhaufted with lofs of blood, that, inftead 
of being able to aflift his companion, he was happy to 
efcape with his life. 
The Porf jfack/on thrup^ of which a plate is annexed, 
inhabits the neighbourhood of Port Jackfon. The top of 
the head in this fpecies is blueifb-grey ; from thence down 
the hind part of the neck, and the back, the colour is a 
fine chocolate brown ; the wings and tail are lead colour, 
the edges of the feathers pale; the tail itfelf pretty long, and 
even at the end ; all the under parts from chin to vent are 
dulky-white, except the middle of the neck, juft above the 
breaft, which inclines to chocolate. The bill is of a dull 
yellow; legs brown. 
25th. The Supply arrived from Lord Howe*s Ifland 
without a fingle turtle, the objedl for which fhe was fent : 
a dreadful difappointment to thofe who were languifhing 
under the fcurvy ; many of whom are fince dead, and there 
is 
