During the night preceding the 14th, some dogs having gotten in among them, forced them out of the pen, killed four, and dispersed the rest.

Six of them were recovered the next day; but the two rams and two of the finest ewes in the whole flock, were amongst those which were missing.

Baron Plettenberg being at this time in the country, our commander applied to Mr.Hemmy, the lieutenant-governor, and to the fiscal, for redress; and both these gentlemen promised to use their endeavours for the recovery of the lost sheep.

It is the boast of the Dutch, that the police at the Cape is so carefully executed, that it is scarcely possible for a slave, with all his cunning and knowledge of the country, to effectuate his escape.

Nevertheless, Captain Cook's sheep evaded all the vigilance of the fiscal's officers and people.