The coal found on the island proved to be of an inferior kind.

On his way back to the ship, Lieutenant Grant met a stranger named John Loft, who had been wrecked out of a boat belonging to Mr.Underwood of Sydney.

She was cast on shore to the northward of Port Stephens, and he had been thirty-two days in travelling to this place from there.

He had had two companions, one of whom, he said, was killed by the natives, the other had eaten a toad fish and died.

The emotions that he felt on meeting his countrymen can be better imagined than described.