Nelson, the botanist, 224, 228. 
  Nepean, Captain, 145. 
  Nepean, Evan, 125. 
  Nepean, Nicholas, 124. 
  Nepean River, 125, 254.
  Neptune, 80, 125. 
  New Britain, 39, 100. 
  New Caledonia, 100. 
  New Guinea, 4, 7, 9, 39, 51, 58, 63. 
  New Hebrides, or Tierra Australis del Espiritu Santo, 4. 
  New Holland, 16, 20, 50, 59, 71, 95. 
  New Ireland, 51, 100. 
  New South Wales, 58;
    scheme for colonizing, 74;
    opinions on the country, 82;
    agricultural returns, 83;
    convict population, 84;
    administration of Captain Phillip, 85;
    Captain Hunter, 102;
    the military, 102;
    state of disorder, 103;
    the corps, 103;
    bushrangers, 105;
    the marines, 114;
    officers, 116, 118;
    formation of the corps, 123;
    manner of raising, 126;
    maximum strength, 127;
    marines granted discharges, 127;
    privileges of re-enlistment, 127;
    emigrants, 128;
    emancipated convicts, 128;
    the first cargo of rum, 131;
    character of the corps, 131;
    breaches of discipline, 132;
    number of companies, 134;
    the veteran, 134;
    abolished, 135, 269;
    revolt of convicts, 152;
    the first newspaper, 157;
    administration of Capt.  King, 136;
    discovery of coalfields, 172;
    Captain Bligh, 218;
    under martial law, 267;
    population, 271;
    condition of the colony, 271;
    Governor Macquarie, 269.
  New South Wales Records, 67. 
  New Zealand, 7, 57, 71, 143. 
  Newcastle, 105;
    town of, founded, 157. 
  Newfoundland, 46. 
  Nicobar Islands, 20. 
  Nobbs, Rev. George H., his history, 240-242.
  Norfolk, 177, 178, 183. 
  Norfolk Island, 96, 99, 128, 235;
    establishment of martial law, 122;
    discovery of, 139;
    colonization, 140;
    population, 140;
    mutiny, 146-148. 
  Norton, Sir Fletcher, 67. 
  Nutting, Mary, letter from, on Captain Bligh, 248-250. 
  Nuyts Archipelago, 10. 
  Nuyts, Peter, 10.

Oakes, Francis, 260. Ocean, 289. Oceani, 242.  Otaheite, 237.  Oxford, Earl of, 29.  Oxley, 292.

  Palliser, Sir Hugh, 46. 
  Palmer, 165. 
  Palmerston, Lord, 86.
  Pandora frigate, 229;
    wrecked, 231. 
  Pandora’s Reef, 231.
  Paramour, 52. 
  Paris, Peace of, 93. 
  Parker, Admiral, 249. 
  Parramatta, 83, 128, 152. 
  Pascoe, Lieutenant, 47. 
  Pasley, 169. 
  Paterson, Lieut.-Colonel, 103, 104, 125, 268, 280;
   his duel with Captain MacArthur, 151. 
  Peckover, William, 224. 
  Pellew, Sir Edward, 213, 214. 
  Pelsart, Francis, in command of the Batavia, 10. 
  Pembroke, Earl of, 42. 
  Pepy’s Diary, 18, 22, 31, 32. 
  Perouse, La, 8, 66, 139, 243.