COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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the vessel was preparing for the voyage, which i82i. 
I gladly accepted; but when the day of de- May 26. 
parture drew nigh, he kept aloof ; and the morn- 
ing that we sailed, his place was filled by another 
volunteer, Bundell ; who proved not only to be 
a more active seaman, but was of much greater 
service to us, than his countryman Boongaree 
had been. This addition made our number 
thirty-three. 
Three days after we left the port, a discovery 30. 
was made of another addition to the number 
of the crew. Upon opening the hold, which 
had been locked ever since the day before we 
sailed, a young girl, not more than fourteen 
years of age, was found concealed among the 
casks, where she had secreted herself in order 
to accompany the boatswain to sea: upon being 
brought on deck, she was in a most pitiable 
plight, for her dress and appearance were so 
filthy, from four days’ close confinement in a 
dark hold, and from having been dreadfully sea- 
sick the whole time, that her acquaintances, of 
which she had many on board, could scarcely 
recognise her. Upon being interrogated, she 
declared she had, unknown to all on board, con- 
cealed herself in the hold the day before the 
vessel sailed ; and that her swain knew nothing 
