Besides Turtle, The Island
Is Well Stocked With Birds, Many Of Them So Tame As To Be Knocked Down
By The Seamen With Sticks.
At the distance of four leagues from
Lord Howe Island, and in latitude 31 deg 30 min south, longitude 159 deg 8 min
east, stands a remarkable rock, of considerable height, to which Mr. Ball gave
the name of Ball's Pyramid, from the shape it bears.
While the 'Supply' was absent, Governor Phillip made an excursion to Broken
Bay, a few leagues to the northward of Port Jackson, in order to explore it.
As a harbour it almost equals the latter, but the adjacent country was found
so rocky and bare, as to preclude all possibility of turning it to account.
Some rivulets of fresh water fall into the head of the Bay, forming
a very picturesque scene. The Indians who live on its banks are numerous,
and behaved attentively in a variety of instances while our people
remained among them.
CHAPTER XIII.
Transactions at Port Jackson in the Months of April and May.
As winter was fast approaching, it became necessary to secure ourselves
in quarters, which might shield us from the cold we were taught to expect
in this hemisphere, though in so low a latitude. The erection of barracks
for the soldiers was projected, and the private men of each company undertook
to build for themselves two wooden houses, of sixty-eight feet in length,
and twenty-three in breadth. To forward the design, several saw-pits
were immediately set to work, and four ship carpenters attached to
the battalion, for the purpose of directing and completing this necessary
undertaking.
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