An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship's company to England in 1792 / By John Hunter ... ; Illustrated with seventeen maps, charts, views, & other embellishments, drawn on the spot by Captains Hunter, and Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, and Governor King.

  • Hunter, John, 1737-1821.
Date:
January 1. 1793
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Credit: An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the publication of Phillip's voyage, compiled from the official papers; including the journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the voyages from the first sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the return of that ship's company to England in 1792 / By John Hunter ... ; Illustrated with seventeen maps, charts, views, & other embellishments, drawn on the spot by Captains Hunter, and Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, and Governor King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Some ffiort time after the before-mentioned accident happened, two chap. convidts who had been employed at a little didance up the harbour, in * cutting rufhes for thatching, were found murdered by the natives. It 17s8* has been drongly fufpedted that thefe people had engaged in fome dif- pute or quarrel with them, and as they had hatchets and bill-hooks with them, it is believed they might have been raffi enough to ufe violence with fome of the natives, who had, no doubt, been numerous there ; be that as it might, the officer who went to look after thofe un- fortunate men, and to fee what work they had done, after hailing fome time for them without any reply, fet his boat’s crew upon the fearch, who, having found a confiderable quantity of blood near their tent, fufpedW what they foon found to be the cafe : for they difcovered the two men immediately after, lying in different places, both dead; the one had his brains beat out with a club or done, befides feveral other wounds ; the other had many wounds, and part of a fpear, which had been broke, flicking quite through his body. Their tent, providons, and cloaths remained, but mod: of the tools were taken awav. j The 4th of June being the birth-day of our much beloved fovereign, June 4, and the firft we had feen in this mod: didant part of his dominions, it was celebrated by all ranks with every poffible demondration of loyalty, and concluded with the utmod chearfulnefs and good order. Having at this time of the year much bad weather, and very heavy gales of wind, I mud obferve, that I had, as well as many others, believed till now, that the gales had never blown upon the coad in fuch a direction, but that a fhip, on being clofe in with the land when fuch. a gale commenced, might gain an offing on one tack or the other j but we now found, that thofe gales are as variable in their direction upon this’