VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
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colony, although there were numbers, the property of Go- 
vernment or individuals, when firfl landed. 
26th. Two men of the Sirius were brought before the 
criminal court, and tried for aflaulting, and beating, in a 
crael manner, another man belonging to the fame veffel, 
while employed on an iiland appropriated by the governor 
to tlise vtfc of the fhip. They were fentenced to receive 
Eve hundred lafhes each, but could not undergo the whole 
of that punilbmieat, as, like mofl of the perfons in the 
colony,, tbey were much aSlidted with the fcurvy. 
28th. Captain Hunter, his firft lieutenant, and the 
IbfgeoM of tbe Sirius, went to the point of land which 
forms the north head; of Port Jackfon. In going there 
they difcovered an old man, with a little girl about five 
years of age, lying clofe to the ground watching their mo- 
tions, and at the fame time endeavouring to conceal them- 
felves. The furgeon had his gun with him, the eiTeds of ' 
which he let the old man fee, by fhooting a bird, which fell 
at his feet. The explofion at firfl: greatly alarmed him, but 
perceiving that they intended him no ill, he foon got over 
his fears. The bird was then given to him, which (having 
barely plucked, and not more than half broiled it) he de- 
I voured. 
