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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

CHAPTER VIII
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Our gentlemen asked them for a spear, which they immediately gave.

The boat's crew said that Baneelon and Colbee had just departed, after a friendly intercourse.
Like the others, they had pretended highly to disapprove the conduct of the man who had thrown the spear, vowing to execute vengeance upon him.
From this time, until the 14th, no communication passed between the natives and us.

On that day, the chaplain and lieutenant Dawes, having Abaroo with them in a boat, learned from two Indians that Wileemarin was the name of the person who had wounded the governor.

These two people inquired kindly how his excellency did, and seemed pleased to hear that he was likely to recover.

They said that they were inhabitants of Rose Hill, and expressed great dissatisfaction at the number of white men who had settled in their former territories.


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