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The observatory which was erected on our first landing being found small and inconvenient, as well for the purpose of observing as for the residence of Lieutenant Dawes and the reception of the astronomical instruments, the stone-cutters began preparing stone to construct another, the materials for which were found in abundance upon the spot, the west point of the cove.

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Barracks

Stock

Intelligence from Norfolk Island

Police established at the principal settlement

A successful haul of fish

A soldier tried for a rape

Provisions begin to fail

Natives

A launch completed

Rats

Ration reduced to two-thirds

Sirius returns to the Cove

One of her mates lost in the woods

Supply sails for Norfolk Island

Utility of the night watch

A female convict executed for house-breaking

Two natives taken

Serious charge against the assistant commissary satisfactorily cleared up

Lieutenant Dawes's excursion

The Supply returns

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August.] Of the four barracks which were begun in March 1788, and at that time intended to be finished as such, two had been for some time occupied by the detachment, two companies residing in each; a third was at the beginning of this month converted into a storehouse; and the wood-work of the fourth was taken down and applied to some other purpose; the labour and time required to finish it being deemed greater than the utility that would be derived from it as a barrack, the two that were already occupied conveniently and comfortably accommodating the detachment.