d, as we make use
of the hoe), for he will touch at no place where they can be purchased
to advantage. If his sheep and hogs are English also, it will be better.
For wines, spirits, tobacco, sugar, coffee, tea, rice, poultry, and many
other articles, he may venture to rely on at Teneriffe or Madeira, the
Brazils and Cape of Good Hope. It will not be his interest to draw bills
on his voyage out, as the exchange of money will be found invariably
against him, and a large discount also deducted. Drafts on the place he
is to touch at, or cash (dollars if possible) will best answer his end.

To men of desperate fortune and the lowest classes of the people, unless
they can procure a passage as indented servants, similar to the custom
practised of emigrating to America, this part of the world offers no
temptation: for it can hardly be supposed, that Government will be fond
of maintaining them here until they can be settled, and without such
support they must starve.

Of the Governor's instructions and intentions relative to the disposal
of the convicts, when the term of their transportation shall be expired,
I am ignorant. They will then be free men, and at liberty, I apprehend,
either to settle in the country, or to return to Europe. The former
will be attended with some public expense; and the latter, except in
particular cases, will be difficult to accomplish, from the numberless
causes which prevent a frequent communication between England and this
continent.

POSTSCRIPT

Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, New South Wales.

October 1st, 1788. Little material has occurred in this colony since the
departure of the ships for England, on the 14th July last. On the
20th of that month His Majesty's ship Supply, Captain Ball, sailed
for Norfolk Island, and returned on the 26th August. Our accounts from
thence are more favourable than were expected. The soil proves admirably
adapted to produce all kinds of grain, and European vegetables. But the
discovery which constitutes its value is the New Zealand flax, plants
of which are found growing in every part of the island in the utmost
luxuriancy and abundance. This will, beyond doubt, appear strange to the
reader after what has been related in the former part of my work: and
in future, let the credit of the testimony be as high as it may, I
shall never without diffidence and hesitation presume to contradict
the narrations of Mr. Cook. The truth is, that those sent to settle a