There was not one of them that did not testify strong abhorrence of the punishment and equal sympathy with the sufferer.

The women were particularly affected; Daringa shed tears, and Barangaroo, kindling into anger, snatched a stick and menaced the executioner.

The conduct of these women, on this occasion, was exactly descriptive of their characters.

The former was ever meek and feminine, the latter fierce and unsubmissive.
On the first of May, many allotments of ground were parcelled out by the governor to convicts whose periods of transportation were expired, and who voluntarily offered to become settlers in the country.

The terms on which they settled, and their progress in agriculture, will be hereafter set forth..