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ON an evening early in May of that first year of Australia, Mr. Patrick Cartwright stepped ashore near the head of the Cove from a boat belonging to the Lady Penrhyn, lying out in the stream, almost ready to commence the voyage to China for which she had been chartered by the East India Company, after she should have discharged her prisoners and stores.
He had been to dine with his friend the surgeon, and had found Dr.