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Port Jackson was no more than £30. ; but this was owing to some 1802. 
of the materials being supplied from the public magazines. May ' 
Whilst these branches of our refitment were going on, a 
thorough examination was made and survey taken of all the ship's 
stores ; as well for the purpose of sending away those unserviceable 
and replacing them with others so far as they could be obtained, as 
with a view to enable the warrant officers to pass their accounts and 
obtain their pay up to this time ; a precaution which the nature of our 
voyage rendered more peculiarly necessary. After the surveys were 
ended, the seamen were employed in stripping and re-rigging the 
masts, and preparing the hold to receive a fresh stock of provisions 
and water ; the naturalist and his assistants, as also the two painters, 
made excursions into the interior of the country ; and my time was 
mostly occupied in constructing the fair charts of our discoveries 
and examinations upon the South Coast, for the purpose of their 
being transmitted to the secretary of the Admiralty. 
On the 4th of June, the ship was dressed with colours, a June, 
royal salute fired, and I went with the principal officers of the Inves- 
tigator to pay my respects to His Excellency the governor and cap- 
tain-general, in honour of His Majesty's birth day. On this occasion, 
a splendid dinner was given to the colony ; and the number of ladies 
and civil, military, and naval officers was not less than forty, who 
met to celebrate the birth of their beloved sovereign in this distant 
part of the earth. 
On the 6th, the Speedy, south-whaler, sailed for England. 
By Mr. Quested, the commander, I transmitted to the Admiralty an 
account of my proceedings upon the south coast of Terra Australis ; 
but the charts being unfinished, were obliged to be deferred to a 
future opportunity. To the Astronomer Royal I sent Arnold's 
time keepers, No. 82 and 176, which had stopped; together with 
a statement of the principal astronomical observations hitherto made, 
and an account of Earnshaw's two time keepers, No. 543 and 520, 
which continued to perform well. 
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