A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

e sailing of the First Fleet in Ju

ure of the ships. On their speedy arrival in England p

; bringing no material news, except that the soil was found to suit grain, and other seeds, which had

tants, which it might contain: sixty-seven canoes, and 147 people were counted. No estimate, however, of even to

ny former period of equal duration. And yet it deserves to be remarked, in honour of the climate,

mpatience towards the sea, cheered by the hope of seeing supplies from England approach. But none arriving, on the 2d of Oct

mber, the soil here being judged better than that around Sydney. A small redoubt was thrown up, and a

with earth, which he pretended to have brought from it, he produced. After a number of attendant circumstances, too ludicrous and contemptible to relate, which befell a party, who were sent under his guidance to explore this second Peru, he at last confessed, that he had broken up an old pair of buckles, and mixed the pieces with sand and stone; and on assaying the composition, the brass was detected. The fate of this fellow I should not deem worth recording, did it not lead to the following observation, that the

hey more than once attempted to set fire to combustible matter, in order to annoy us. Early on the morning of the 18th of December, word was brought that they were assembled in force, near the brick-kilns, which stand but a mile from the town of Sydney. The terror of those who brought the first intelligence magnified the number to two thousand; a second messenger dim

h case we should know the worst, and provide accordingly: or else it would induce an intercourse, by the report which our prisoners would make of the mildness and indulgence with which we used them. And farther, it promised to unveil the cause of their myst

standing its being just within the period of time which this chapter profe

t of the foregoing chapters had been related before, either by others or myself. I was however, unavoidably compelled to insert it, in order t