preserving the other.^* The Fncmhliip's storen were removed into the Ahr({tuf*'t and the former ** was bored and tin'ned adrift." When but one yeamaii was fit for work, and even the sails could not be fnrled» the Alexandrr reached Batavia, and begf^^ed assistance from the Diitcli (18th Nov,)* Assisi- ance wan given proinptl}^ and lunnanul3% From other Enghsli vessels, ** with the assistance of a few from the Dutcli Commodore, a fresh crew was at length made up, m which four only of the original seamen remained, the rest being either dead or not enough recovered to return with the Alexandvr when she sailed again on the 7tb Dec/' When Hunter boarded her at Table Bay (IHth Feb.) he was received with hearty cheers by his remaining friends. Such were the struggles of English seamen in the southern hemispliere* Tttfifte molis t;mt (longinqunm) vonthre tjentevi. On the "20th Feb., with such accounts to rejider of the I fortunes of his old comrades, Hunter sailed from Table Bay with twelve months' provisions for the ship's company and eix months' supply of Hour for the settlement at Sydney,
- every officer's apartment and all the store-rooms being
completely iilled," In May, 1781), the SlnuB arrived at Sydney. Her supplies were welcome, but they could not permanently alter the condition of the settlement. No tidings from England had ■ reached the colony* Such disastrous voyages as that of the ^ At e J ■aruUr mh^ii indetinitely strangle the hope of receiving fresh supplies. It might be that the new exijeriment would end in gloom, like that of the French essay at colonizing in [Cayenne in 1763, when (although two years* provisions had been carried with them) thousands of persons were annihilated utterly by fever, famine, and an overwhelming flood. If the French might be thought unskilful hi contending mth the elements, was there not the rumoured fate in 16*J9 of hardy Dutchmen, prone to navigation and successful I abroad *^ Was it lu.it written tliut while Captain Pelsaert ' left comrades on an island on the west const of Australia, and went in a skiff to Batavia, his countrymen were at deadly feud, and that before the captiiin returned with aid from Batavia, 125 persons had been murdered by mutineers? Was it not written of Pelsaert awA ^
