While this examination was carried on, the whole fleet had arrived.

The Supply had not so much outsailed the other ships as to give Governor Phillip the advantage he had expected in point of time.

On the 19th of January, the Alexander, Scarborough, and Friendship, cast anchor in Botany Bay; and on the 20th, the Sirius, with the remainder of the convoy*.

These ships had all continued very healthy; they had not, however, yet arrived at their final station.
[* The annexed view of Botany Bay, represents the Supply, etc.

at anchor, and the Sirius with her convoy coming into the bay.] The openness of this bay, and the dampness of the soil, by which the people would probably be rendered unhealthy, had already determined the Governor to seek another situation.