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cepted the proffered services of Boongaree , 
a Port Jackson native, who had formerly 
accompanied Captain Flinders in the In- 
vestigator, and also on a previous occasion 
in the Norfolk schooner. This man is well 
known in the colony as the chief of the 
Broken Bay tribe; he was about forty- 
five years of age, of a sharp, intelligent, 
and unassuming disposition, and promised 
to be of much service to us in our in- 
tercourse with the natives: this addition 
made our number amount to nineteen, 
for which we carried provisions for nine 
months, and twelve weeks’ water. 
