In His Despatch Captain
Bremer Remarked That Even Forbes's Features Seemed To Have "Assimilated
Themselves" To Those Of The Islanders.
The kindly chief was afterwards rewarded, as was Captain Watson, by the
Admiralty.
The Orang Kaire of Louron seems to have escaped scot free,
having left the Essington as Forbes was being brought on board. Forbes
afterwards retired to Williamstown, Victoria, where he spent the rest of
his life as a fisherman, and it is said that he never quite recovered
from the effects of his harsh bondage.
The last news of the Lady Nelson was brought to Sydney some time after
her capture by a ship called the Faith, which reported that the hull of
the Lady Nelson was still to be seen with her name painted on the stern
at the island of Baba.
It was an unworthy end to a very gallant ship, but the record of the
useful work that she accomplished survives and will have its place in
every history of Australia.
APPENDIX.
H.M.S. BUFFALO: SHIP'S MUSTER, 1801 TO 1805.
No separate muster of the ship's company of the Lady Nelson can be found
among the Public Records, but during the period that she was attached to
H.M.S. Buffalo in New South Wales the names of her crew and of the
supernumeraries sailing in her were inscribed in the books of that ship,
four pages from which are here reproduced. The first three of these give
the names of the officers and seamen who composed the complement of the
Lady Nelson in 1801, 1803 and 1804. The fourth page is an extract from
the Buffalo's own muster-roll when she conveyed the first Norfolk Island
settlers to Port Dalrymple in 1805, the Government having decided to
break up their settlement. Among the passengers on board the Buffalo were
Mrs. Elizabeth Paterson the wife of the Lieutenant-Governor, Mr.
Williams, Acting Surveyor-General, and Ann Williams, possibly a relative
of his. With the Norfolk Island settlers was William Lee, to whom this
volume is dedicated, then a lad ten years of age, who afterwards became
one of the first pioneers in the Bathurst district.
The story of the Buffalo's arrival at Port Dalrymple is told in a letter
written to Earl Camden by Colonel Paterson from Yorktown as follows: -
"On the 4th April H.M.S. Buffalo arrived from Port Jackson by which
conveyance I received a proportion of such stores and provisions as could
be spared, 120 ewes, 2 rams, 6 cows, 2 bulls, 1 mare, and 1 horse: 50
prisoners were also sent.
"Five settlers arrived at the same time from Norfolk Island with the
Acting Surveyor-General to measure out the allotments necessary for them.
Soon after their arrival I accompanied them to different situations as
far as Supply River, which is about 10 miles from Headquarters. After
examining the ground they chose their allotments on the banks of a run, 2
miles to the south-east of this place. Mr. Riley, Acting
Deputy-Commissary, recommended also to have the advantages of free
settlers, chose his ground also in this situation. They proceeded to
clear the ground and to cultivate. Everyone exerted themselves as much as
possible, but those who cultivated on the sides of the hills were
deceived in their choice and too much disappointed in the first
appearance of their crops, the low ground being also found subject to
temporary floods. AS THEY WERE THE FIRST SETTLERS, I have recommended
them to his Excellency, as a remuneration of their losses, to have grants
of land on the north side of the main river Tamar extending up the river
South Esk. My motive for recommending this situation is that they cannot
fail in success as it is a part of the country the colony must look to
for grain. The first twelve months being now past I have every reason to
believe the greatest of our difficulties have been surmounted...It is not
for me to presume to be acquainted with the particular causes which
rendered it necessary this colony should be established, but if its
desirable situation in the important passage of Bass Streights was one of
the objects, it appears to me necessary that a large establishment should
ever remain here while the interests of Great Britain are to be effected
in this part of the world, and I can assure your Lordship I have seen no
country yet that offers such inducements to be retained.*
I have, etc.,
W. PATERSON."
(* The remaining Norfolk Island Settlers were later on removed to
Tasmania in different ships, the Lady Nelson conveying many of them to
their new home. Historical Records of New South Wales volume 5 page 732.)
INDEX.
Abbott, Captain E.
Abercrombie, Charles.
Albany Otway, Cape.
Albatross Islands.
Albion, the.
Alligator, H.M.S.
Aluta.
Amsterdam, Island of.
Anderson, Ensign.
Anna, Josepha.
Ann's Island.
Ann's Mountain.
Anson, H.M.S.
Apsley Strait.
Arthur's Seat.
Ash Island.
Baba Island.
Baba.
Babel Islands, see Cat Islands.
Baie du Nord.
Baillie, Ensign.
Ballinjoy.
Ball's Pyramid.
Banks, Cape.
Banks, Sir Joseph.
Barbin Reach.
Barlow, Captain Maurice.
Barnes, Farmer.
Barrallier, Ensign.
his valuable charts.
shoots a hawk.
a cockatoo.
suffers from sea-sickness.
surveys harbour and river.
Barren, Cape.
Barren Island.
Barren Jowie.
Barren's Pool.
Barr Reach.
Bass, Dr. George.
discovers Bass Strait.
circumnavigates Tasmania.
Bass Strait.
Bastell.
Bathurst Islands.
Baudin, Commodore.
in Encounter Bay.
his Journals.
writes to Governor King.
Bauer, F.
Bayley, Ensign.
Bay of Islands.
Bay of Seals.
Bay of Shoals.
Bee, The.
Belloe's Reach.
Bennilong's Point.
Betsy, The.
Big Stuck, the.
Bird Island.
Bligh, Governor.
Black, Captain.
Bond, Mr.
Boongaree.
Boswell, Mr.
Botany Bay.
Bowen, Lieutenant John.
his Colony at Risdon.
sent to Hobart.
Bowen, Mr.
finds a canoe.
his adventures among Bush Natives.
captures seals.
Bower.
Bow Reach.
Boxhead.
Boyd.
Brabyn, Mr.
Brace, Cape.
Bradley's Head.
Branch Reach.
Brandt, Dr.
Breaksea Spit.
Bremer, Captain James Gordon.
leaves England in the Tamar.
his log-book.
at Port Essington.
arrives at Sydney.
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