Two bulls which were on board died on the passage, so that on the young gentleman just mentioned depends the stocking of the colony.
The period of the inhabitants of New South Wales being supplied with animal food of their own raising is too remote for a prudent man to calculate.
The cattle look in good condition, and I was surprised to hear that neither corn nor fodder is given to them.

The enclosures in which they are confined furnish hardly a blade of grass at present.

There are people appointed to tend them who have been used to this way of life, and who seem to execute it very well.
Sunday, December 4th, 1791.

Divine service is now performed here every Sunday, either by the chaplain of the settlement or the chaplain of the regiment.

I went to church today.