our sensations every moment redoubling. At last we
read the word _London_ on her stern. 'Pull away, my lads! she is from
old England! A few strokes more, and we shall be aboard--hurrah for a
belly full, and news from our friends!' Such were our exhortations to
the boat's crew. A few minutes completed our wishes, and we found
ourselves on board the _Lady Juliana_ transport, with 235 of our
countrywomen, whom crime or misfortune had condemned to exile. She had
been about eleven months on her voyage."--_Tench's Narrative._]

[Footnote 81: _Dr. Lang's History of New South Wales._]

[Footnote 82: _Bigge's Reports._]

[Footnote 83: The decision of a magistrate was not necessary, to inflict
punishment. The overseer stalked about with a military cane, and was not
sparing of its use. "He would walk out behind the convict-hoers in a
morning gown and morocco slippers, with a _Penang Lawyer_ hugged close
under his right arm, or borne like a royal sceptre before him, plucking
at every tuft as he paced about, and drumming such a tattoo upon the
shoulders of the unlucky wight, whose ground was not completely chopped,
and grass fairly uprooted, as made the whole brush dance with fire-flies
before him!"--_Cunningham._]

[Footnote 84: "The other inhabitants of the island (Britain) still
maintained themselves by pasture: they were clothed with skins of
beasts; they dwelt in huts, which they reared in forests and marshes,
with which the country was covered."--_Hume's History of England_, chap.
i.]

[Footnote 85: "A little wicked tailor arrives, of no use to the
architectural projects of the Governor: he is turned over to a settler,
who leases this sartorial Borgia his liberty for five shillings a week,
and allows him to steal and snip what, when, and where he can. The
nefarious needleman writes home, that he is as comfortable as a finger
in a thimble: that, though a fraction only of humanity, he has several
wives, and is filled every day with rum and kangaroo. This, of course,
is not lost upon a shop-board, and for the saving of fifteen pence a-day
(to government), the foundation of many criminal tailors is
laid."--_Edinburgh Review_, 1823.]

SECTION VI.

The adventurous habits of a hunting life, favored by the early
necessities of the settlement, trained the prisoners to
bushranging.[86] The lawless pioneers of the settlers repeated in
Tasmania the exploits once common in Great Britain, when the merry green
wood was the retre