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you contended very strongly know I [indecipherable] in England that the cattle should not be [indecipherable] , but found, which is now [indecipherable] the case. Another singular circumstance has also happened lately; [indecipherable] some convicts left the colony in an open boat hope of making their escape, some of these have been found a few days since by Captain [indecipherable] (who commands His Majesty's Ship [indecipherable] of 20 guns I think [indecipherable] out now [indecipherable] ) in port [indecipherable] & brought to Port Jackson; they has not been heard of for the last five years, & [indecipherable] this time [indecipherable] of New Holland. I [indecipherable] not yet learned how [indecipherable] spent their time among the [indecipherable] savages, they were quite naked like the miserable natives when Captain [indecipherable] met with them. [indecipherable] suspect [indecipherable] the Colony [indecipherable] much; cultivatiom