40". Long. 161 deg. 12' East Greenwich."--_Hunter's Historical Journal._]

[Footnote 52: _Backhouse's Journal._]

[Footnote 53: Collins.]

[Footnote 54: Holt gives the following curious anecdote:--"The Rev.
Henry Fulton was reading the commandments, when Tony Chandler sung
out--'turn out, you d----d villians, and launch the boat!' As I was
going out, I said to Mr. Fulton, 'I perceive Tony Chandler's word has
more power here than the word of God.' Fulton smiled, and shook his
head."--_Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 232.]

[Footnote 55: "At a distance, I saw about fifty men at work, as I
thought dressed in nankeen jackets, but on nearer approach I found them
naked, except trousers: they had each a kind of large hoe, about nine
inches deep and eight wide, and the handle as thick as a shovel, with
which they turned up the ground."-_Holt's Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 79.]

[Footnote 56: The work is written with considerable strength of
delineation; although his accounts are not quite safe authority for the
character of his enemies. His words he spelled after a provincial
pronunciation: thus, describing the crew of the _Sydney_, he writes,
instead of Sepoys and Lascars, "Saypies and Glascars."]

[Footnote 57: Of the women at Rio, he says--"Their skin is equal in
clearness to the skin of a new laid egg: their eyes black as sloes;
their hair like polished jet; their teeth as even as rows of printing,
and as white as pearls; their eye-brows like those of a doll: their feet
and legs, as if they were modelled in wax-work. They are the most
complete patterns of the neatest form of a woman!"]

[Footnote 58: Wentworth.]

[Footnote 59: _Derwent Star, January_, 1810.]

[Footnote 60: _Cunningham's Two Years in New South Wales_, p. 201.]

[Footnote 61: _Derwent Star, February_, 1810.]

[Footnote 62: _Peron's Voyage._]

[Footnote 63: "It was, we must confess, very provoking to see the
officers draw goods from the public store, to traffic in them for their
own private gain, which goods were sent out for the advantage of the
settlers, who were compelled to deal with those huckster officers for
such articles as they might require; giving them from 50 to 500 per
cent. profit, and paying them in grain."--_Memoirs of Holt_, vol. ii. p.
296.]

[Footnote 64: The instance given by Mr. Wentworth (p. 202), of a man who
was sent by Bligh with a note to the constable, who was directed to flog
him, without informing him of its purport, however it mig