When my collector, Mr. Roy Bell, was there for a year, before the war, he 
stayed with a Mrs. Adams, wife of a descendant of the original Adams, who 
alone of the mutineers lived to see other white people. 
LORD HOWE ISLAND. 
We have seen the “ Supply ” sail away from Port Jackson for Norfolk 
Island on February 14th, 1788. On the 19tli of March, Lieutenant Ball arrived 
back at Sydney in the “ Supply ” from Norfolk Island. He had made that 
island on the 29th of February, hut was five days off the coast before a place 
could be found at which it was possible to land the stores and provisions. 
“ A smaller island, but entirely uninhabited, was discovered by Lieutenant 
Henry Liclgbird Ball in his passage to Norfolk Island on February 17th. On 
his return he examined it, and found that the shore abounded with turtle, but 
there was no good anchorage. He named it Lord Howe Island. It is in 31° 30' 
south latitude and 159° 5' east longitude, 400 miles E.N.E. from Port Jackson, 
and 300 miles E. from Port Macquarie. 
“ The island is 7 statute miles in length by to If miles in width, and 
contains, independent of its mountain slopes, 2,500 acres of land capable of 
culture. 
“ As long as frequent intercourse subsisted between Sydney and Norfolk 
Island, Lord Howe Island, which is situated about midway between the two 
places, was often visited, and it was from a very early period the resort of whaling 
ships and trading vessels. 
“ The first occupants arrived there in 1833 or 1834 and consisted of three 
men accompanied by Maori women and two Maori boys from New Zealand, 
who were taken to the island by the whaling barque ‘ Caroline.’ 
“ The late Mr. Richard Dawson, iron-founder of Sydney, in conjunction 
with a Captain Poole, a military officer, brought out the first settlers for the sum 
of £300. Poole sold half his interest to the late Dr. Foulis. The inhabitants 
then left the island and were replaced by others, who were sent there by the 
firm or left ashore by passing whalers. 
“ Dawson and party abandoned the Lord Howe Island enterprise in 1846 
or 1847 partly because they did not succeed in making it pay and partly because 
Captain Poole had failed to obtain the tenure that he applied for from the 
Government. The inhabitants were thenceforth left to their own resources. 
“In 1851 there was some talk of making this island a penal settlement, 
transportation to Nev r South Wales having ceased in 1841. In 1851 the 
Colonies became self-governing. Tasmania’s self-government, however, was 
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