VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
people fettled upon it, when theycan venture out, get great 
plenty of fifli ; and, at certain feafons, turtle. In the ifland 
alfo are pigeons, as tame as domeftic fowls ; and the foil 
feems well adapted for the growth of all kinds of grain and 
vegetables. It produces a wild banana, or plantain tree, 
which, by cukivation, may afTift the fettlers, as a fucce- 
daneum for bread : and I am not without hopes that we 
fhall be able to make fome additions from thence to fuch 
neceffaries of life as may in time be produced here. 
A few days fince the natives landed near the hofpital, 
where fome goats belonging to the Supply were browfing ; 
when they killed, with their fpear, a kid, and carried it 
away. Within this fortnight, they have alfo killed a he- 
goat of the governor's. Whenever an opportunity offered, 
they have feldom failed to deftroy whatever flock they could 
feize upon unobferved. They have been equally ready to 
attack the convidls, on every occafion which prefented 
itfelf ; and fome of them have become victims to thefe 
favages. I have already obferved that they fiand much in 
fear of a mufquet, and therefore they very feldom approach 
any perfon by whom it is carried ; and their apprehenfions 
are almofl equally great when they perceive a red garment. 
September 
