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ourselves and a boy constituting both officers [missing]
were fortunate enough to get into Botany Bay [missing]
on the ninth day, after completely fulfilling the ob{ject of our ex-}
-cursion, by having traced the river some miles beyond [missing]
even Tom Thumb could go.
      The proximity of the river to the established settlements,
and the goodneƒs of the soil in its neighbourhood, were sufficient
inducements to the formation of a settlement upon its banks
about two years afterwards, under the name of Banks Town.
      On the arrival of the ship from Norfolk Island in March
following, M ^r Baƒs and myself planned an expedition to ano-
-ther river, which Henry Hacking the pilot had met with to the
southward of Botany Bay, in his kanguroo-hunting excursi-
-ons: the entrance of this river was thought to be very little
beyond Point Solander. As Tom Thumb had performed so well
before, the same boats crew had little hesitation in embarking in
another boat of nearly the same size, which had been since built
at Port Jackson; and who ^ ^also behaved exceedingly ^ ^well on some trying occas-
-ions.
      Some unlooked for circumstances occurred in this little voy-
-age of discovery, which render it somewhat interesting. Although the
addition of knowledge gained in the ^ ^{expedition does not} seem to deserve a particular
narrative, yet as one is subjoined.
      We left the ship in the evening, with the days provisions, and two
musquets with ammunition: and slept upon a rock in Sharks Bay
two miles from the entrance of the port. At three in the morning
of the