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fielder."—First Meetings on Shore.—Temperance Meeting.—Works of Creation.—Visit to the Governor, at Parramatta.—Card Playing.—Snake.—Elizabeth Bay.—Fig-tree and Acrosticum grande.—Peaches.—Plants.—School Meeting.—Group of Aborigines.—Parasites.—Meeting in the Court-House.—Luminous Appearances in the Sea.—New Zealand Hostages.—Imposition on Medical Men.—Meeting on Board the Henry Porcher 230
CHAPTER XXI.
Arrangements for Visiting Norfolk Island.—Departure.—Adverse Winds.—Shark and Pilot-fish.—Seamen.—Spiritual Navigation.—Jelly-fish.—"The Elizabeth" Whaler.—Tropic Bird.—Norfolk Island.—Departure of D. and C. Wheeler.—Orange Vale.—Oak.—Geology.—Features of the Island.—Norfolk Island Pine and Tree-fern.—Fruits.—Description of Prisoners.—Assemblies for Worship.—Jail 245
CHAPTER XXII.
Norfolk Island.—Kings Town.—Occupation of Prisoners.—Mitigation of Sentence.—Freycinetia.—New Zealand Flax.—Agriculture.—Pigeons.—Cats.—Fly-catchers.—Parrots.—Dying Prisoner.—Ansons Bay.—Wistaria?—Ipomœa pendula.—"The Sisters" Pines—Jasminum gracile.—Lagunea Patersonii.—Burial of a Prisoner.—Improvement among the Prisoners.—Provisions.—Sweet Potato.—Profanity.—Perjury.—Madrapores.—Sea Anemonies.—Papal Prayers.—Teaching of the Spirit 255
CHAPTER XXIII.
Norfolk Island.—Disinclination to receive Religious Instruction.—Prisoners' Barracks.—Iron.—Flagellation.—Overseers.—Sentence to Penal Settlements. —Sick Prisoners.—Rocks.—Cape Gooseberry.—Palm.—Wood-quest. N. I. Pines.—Roman Catholic Prisoners.—Cleanliness.—Temperature.—Reckless Prisoner.—Felling-gang.—Plants.—The Cascade.—Flora of N. I.—Sugar Cane.—Rum.—Christian Doctrine 262
CHAPTER XXIV.
Norfolk Island.—Cave.—Remarkable Shrubs.—Mount Pitt.—Group of Islands.—Capture of a Parrot.—Marrattia.—Petty Sessions.—Marine Animals.—Tree-ferns.—Animals.—Visit of Officers to Phillip Island.—Guavas.—True Church.—Return of Officers.—Wild-boar.— Runaway Prisoner.—Religious Interviews.—Luminous Fungus.— Prisoner's History.—Tidings.—Relapses.—Parting Opportunities.—Penitent Prisoners.—Departure.—Prisoners' Letters.—Voyage.—Storm.—Lord Howes Island.—Portuguese Man-of-War.—Arrival at Sydney.—Disorderly Soldiers 270
CHAPTER XXV.
Sydney.—Penal Discipline of Norfolk Island Re-modelled.—Epistle to Friends
in Hobart Town.—Meetings.—Unclaimed Property of Deceased Persons.—Drought.—Shrubs.—Thoughtless Young Men.—Conceited Woman.—Prayer in Spirit.—Australian School Society.—Unworthy Descendants of Friends.—Blacks Fishing.—Species of Callitris.—Ministry.—Shrubs.—Friends' Books.—D. and C. Wheeler.—J. Leach.—Consumption.—Meeting at Cooks River.—Travelling in New South Wales.—Mounted Police.—Meeting at the North Shore.—Botany Bay.—Dye-woods, &c.—Grass-tree.—Sweet Tea.— Miasmal Fever 286
