Their fate is a riddle, so difficult of solution that I shall not attempt it.

Surely had they strayed inland, in some of our numerous excursions, marks of them must have been found.

It is equally impossible to believe that either the convicts or natives killed and ate them, without some sign of detection ensuing.] The spontaneous productions of the soil will be soon recounted.

Every part of the country is a forest: of the quality of the wood take the following instance.

The 'Supply' wanted wood for a mast, and more than forty of the choicest young trees were cut down before as much wood as would make it could be procured, the trees being either rotten at the heart or riven by the gum which abounds in them.