AND THE NATIVES. 127 afterwards and then died. Phillip was at Eose Hill when 1790 the affair occurred, but on the day after he returned to Sydney, and immediately issued the following order : — Several tribes of the natives still continue to throw spears at phiuip'a any man they meet unarmed, by which several have been killed, ^ ®'* or dangerously wounded : — The Governor, in order to deter tho natives from such practices in future, has ordered out a party to search for the man who wounded the convict McEntire in so a search dangerous a manner on Friday last, though no oflfence was offered Sfdlere. * on his part, in order to make a signal example of that tribe. At the same time, the Governor strictly forbids, under penalty of the severest punishment, any soldier or other person not expressly ordered out for that purpose, ever to fire on any native, except in his own defence ; or to molest him in any shape, or to bring away any spears, or other articles, which they may find belonging to these people. The natives will be made severe example of when- ever any man is wounded by them : but this will be done in a manner which may satisfy them, that it is a punishment inflicted on them for their own bad conduct, and of which they cannot be made sensible, if they are not treated with kindness while they continue peaceable and quiet A party, consisting of two captains, two subalterns, and forty privates, with a proper number of non-commissioned officera from the garrison, with three days' provisions, &c., are to be ready to march to-morrow morning at daylight, in order to bring in six of six natives those natives who reside near the head of Botany Bay ; or, if that captured should be found impracticable, to put that number to death. °' ^ Captain Tench proceeds to relate that, having been ap- pointed to command the party, he received further instruc- tions from Phillip personally to the following effect : — That we wei-e, if practicable, to bring away two natives and to Personal put to death ten ; that no hut was to be burned ; that all women *"»*»^'^«™»- and children were to remain uninjured, not being comprehended within the scope of the order; that our operations were to be directed either by surprise or open force ; that after we had made any prisoners all communication, even with those natives with whom we were in habits of intercourse, was to be avoided, and none of them suffered to approach us ; that we were to cut off cut off their and bring in the heads of the slain, for which purpose hatchets ^^^^' Digitized by Google
