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 They are so ignorant of agriculture, that it seems most probable they do not  know the use of corn; and therefore,, more from ignorance than malice, set  to that which the Colonists had raised for  own use. To avoid such disagreeable, a new Settlement was begun on, small uninhabited island. named Norfolk, lying in South Latitude at the distance 1200 miles from New Holland. The party out, in a ship called the Supply, to form  Settlement, consisted only of 26 persons,  took possession on the 14th of Feb 1789. Settlement was found so eligible, that, October, 1789, another party was sent : so that the new Colony, at the time the  advices were received consisted of 44 men,  16 women, who being supplied with eighteen months provisions, will probably be able  cultivate the soil in such a manner, as to  them to form a granary; which will  those who are settled on New Holland  out of danger from their barbarous.

In November the Supply sailed for Norfolk with some Convicts, and returned in six. All the people in that island were ; and their crops, after all they had suffered from rats, birds, and a worm, which had them considerable damage, so good, that  had grain sufficient for six months, (and  for every one upon the island,) reserving  for their next year's crop.