hope of striking terror, to erect gibbets in different places, whereon the bodies of all they might kill were to be hung.  It was reported, that several of these people were killed in consequence of this order; but none of their bodies being found, (perhaps if any were killed they were carried off by their companions,) the number could not be ascertained.  Some prisoners however were taken, and sent to Sydney; one man, (apparently a cripple,) five women, and some children.  One of the women, with a child at her breast, had been shot through the shoulder, and the same shot had wounded the babe.  They were immediately placed in a hut near our hospital, and every care taken of them that humanity suggested.  The man was said, instead of being a cripple, to have been very active about the farms, and instrumental in some of the murders which had been committed.  In a short time he found means to escape, and by swimming reached the north shore in safety; whence, no doubt, he got back to his friends.  Captain Paterson hoped, by detaining the prisoners and treating them well, that some good effect might result; but finding, after some time, that coercion, not attention, was more likely to answer his ends, he sent the women back.  While they were with us, the wounded child died, and one of the women was delivered of a boy, which died immediately.  On our withdrawing the party, the natives attacked a farm nearly opposite Richmond Hill, belonging to one William Rowe, and put him and a very fine child to death, the wife, after receiving several wounds, crawled down the bank, and concealed herself among some reeds half immersed in the river, where she remained a considerable time without assistance:  being at length found, this poor creature, after having seen her husband and her child slaughtered before her eyes, was brought into the hospital at Parramatta, where she recovered, though slowly, of her wounds.  In consequence of this horrid circumstance, another party of the corps was sent out; and while they were there the natives kept at a distance.  This duty now became permanent; and the soldiers were distributed among the settlers for their protection; a protection, however, that many of them did not merit.

Pemulwy, or some of his party, were not idle about Sydney; they even ventured to appear within half a mile of the brickfield huts, and wound a convict who was going to a neighbouring farm on business.  As one of our most frequent walks from the town was in that direction, this circumstance was rather unpleasant; but the natives were not seen there again.

On Sunday the 31st, about one o’clock, the signal was made at the South Head for a sail; and about five there anchored in the cove the Endeavour, a ship of eight hundred tons from Bombay, under the command of Mr. Bampton, having on board one hundred and thirty-two head of cattle, a quantity of rice, and the other articles of the contract engaged by Lieutenant-governor Grose, except the salt provisions.  She had been eleven weeks from Bombay.