The Menace Of Pointing A Musquet To Them Was Frequently Used;
And In One Or Two Instances It Was Fired Off, Though Without Being Attended
With Fatal Consequences.
Indeed the French commandant, both from a regard
to the orders of his Court as well as to our quiet and security, shewed
a moderation and forbearance on this head highly becoming.
On the 20th of March, the 'Supply' arrived from Norfolk Island, after having
safely landed Lieutenant King and his little garrison. The pine-trees
growing there are described to be of a growth and height superior, perhaps,
to any in the world. But the difficulty of bringing them away will not be
easily surmounted, from the badness and danger of the landing place.
After the most exact search not a single plant of the New Zealand flax
could be found, though we had been taught to believe it abounded there.
Lieutenant Ball, in returning to Port Jackson, touched at a small island
in latitude 31 deg 36 min south, longitude 159 deg 4 min east of Greenwich,
which he had been fortunate enough to discover on his passage to Norfolk,
and to which he gave the name of Lord Howe's Island. It is entirely
without inhabitants, or any traces of any having ever been there.
But it happily abounds in what will be infinitely more important to
the settlers on New South Wales: green turtle of the finest kind frequent it
in the summer season. Of this Mr. Ball gave us some very handsome
and acceptable specimens on his return.
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