VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 2,7 
1 0th. The Golden Grove returned from Norfolk Ifland 1788. 
with a few fpars^ and fome timber for the governor. ^-"-^"^ 
While fhe lay there, fhe was obliged to cut her cable and 
fland to fea, there being (as before obferved) no harbour 
in the whole ifland, where a fhip can ride in fafety. The 
mafter of the (hip was fwamped in the furf and nearly loft, 
with his boat and crew. 
nth. Thomas Bulmore, a private marine, died in 
confequence of the blows which he received during a battle 
with one of his companions ; who is to be tried for his 
life, on the 17 th inftant, by a criminal court. So fmall 
is our number, and fo neceffary is every individual who 
compofes it, for one purpofe or another, that the lofs of 
even a fingle man may truly be confiidered as an irreparable 
difadvantage ! 
The preceding is all the account I am able at prefent to 
fend you of the territories of New South Wales, and its pro- 
dudlions. ^ The unfettled ftate in which you mud naturally 
fuppofe every thing, as yet, to remain, will not permit me 
to be as copious as I could wifhj but, by the next difpatch, 
F f I hope 
