Should necessity warrant it, an Admiralty
court, of which Lieutenant Governor Ross is judge, can also be summoned,
for the trial of offences committed on the high seas.
From being unwilling to break the thread of my narrative, I omitted to
note in its proper place the sailing of the 'Supply', Lieut. Ball,
on the 15th of the month, for Norfolk Island, which the Governor had
instructions from the ministry to take possession of. Lieut. King of
the Sirius was sent as superintendent and commandant of this place,
and carried with him a surgeon, a midshipman, a sawyer, a weaver, two
marines, and sixteen convicts, of whom six were women. He was also
supplied with a certain number of live animals to stock the island,
besides garden seeds, grain, and other requisites.
CHAPTER XI
A Description of the Natives of New South Wales, and our Transactions
with them.
I doubt not my readers will be as glad as I feel myself, to conclude the
dull detail of the last chapter. If they please, they may turn from the
subtle intricacies of the law, to contemplate the simple, undisguised
workings of nature, in her most artless colouring.
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