So you see, most of these 'longshore chaps like to send their traps on board while the vessel's in the docks, and then to come down here and stop till she comes round." In a few minutes the lugger was alongside, the gangway was lowered, and the passengers began to come on board.

They were, as the sailor had said they would be, some ten in number.

There were six men, four ladies, and three children, the latter not counting as regular passengers, as they were stowed away in their parents' cabins.
The convicts who were on deck looked over the bulwarks, and cracked coarse jokes among themselves, as the passengers ascended the gangway.

Reuben found that only one-third of the number were allowed on deck at once.

Two soldiers paced up and down the deck, on guard of the hatchway leading below, and two sentries were posted at other points.
A number of small boxes, bags, coats and cloaks were handed up, and then the rope was cast off, and the lugger made her way back to Dover, and the Paramatta again got under sail.