VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
his back. The man, whofe name is Daily, appears infane; yet 
others cannot be perfuaded that he is a lunatic, but are rather 
of opinion that he is a defigning mifcreant, and that time 
will difclofe a deep-laid fcheme, which he had planned for 
fome purpofe hitherto undifcovered. For my own part, I 
freely confefs, that I cannot coincide with their fentiments. 
He was fo artful as to circulate a report that he had fold 
feveral pounds weight of the ore to the mafter of the Golden 
Grove, and fome of his feamen. This rumour was received 
with fuch credulity, that, in confequence of the impreflion 
which it made, none of the failors were fuffered to leave 
the fhip after a certain hour in the evening. In a word, fo 
many ridiculous circumftances attended this affair, that to 
attempt a complete enumeration of them would prove not 
lefs difficult than uninterefting. 
26th. The Supply arrived from Norfolk Ifland, after a 
long and rough paffage. She had landed, but neither in 
apparent fafety nor with facility, the flores which fhe 
carried to that place : and, upon the prefent occafion^ 
I am forry to add, that the hazard of landing and embarking 
from this little ifland is fo very great, that Mr. Cunning- 
ham, a midfhipman of the Sirius (who refided on it with 
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