Pelsart, Francis, in command of theBatavia,10.Pembroke, Earl of,42.Pepy's Diary,18,22,31,32.Pérouse, La,8,66,139,243.Peru,181.Pesa,9.Petit, Mr.,161.Petril, Mrs. Annie,217.Philip III. of Spain,6.Philippines, The,20.Phillip, Captain Arthur,139,166,270,279;his early career,75;in command of the first fleet to New South Wales,76;number of vessels,77;his good management,79;Governor-in-Chief and Captain-General,80;on the unsuitability of Botany Bay,80;explores the coast,81;founds Sydney,81;administration,84,296;qualifications,87;resignation,89;promotions and death,89.Pickersgill,65;Commander of theLion,65.Pindar, Peter,74.Pitcairn Island,51,233;character of its population,234.Pitcairne, Major,119.Pitt, William,164.Plymouth,125,221.Polyphemus,287.Porpoise,159,186,197,285,287,293;wreck of the,187-192.Port Bowen,187.Port King,286.Port Jackson,59,81,94,142.Port Louis,142,198,201.Port Phillip,157,160,184;discovery of,285;attempt to colonize,271,289.Port Royal,52.Port Stephens,59.Portland, Duke of,107,148,150,172;extract of his letters to Captain Hunter,109-111.Portland,64.Possession Island,58.Preservation Island,170,177.Princess,137.Providence,100,169,229,249.Providential Channel,63.Prudent,137.Purchas, extract from, on Australia,3.Putland, Mrs.,266.Quebec,93;siege of,46.Queen Charlotte,102.Quintall,234,235.Rattlesnake, H.M.S.,288,291.Reliance,168,169,178.Renown,137.Resolution,65,66,221,230,249.Resource,197,293.Restoration Island,227.Rio de Janeiro,132.Riou, Captain,142.Robinson, Commander C.N.,The British Fleet,28,31.Rochefort,93.Rochester,119.Rodney, Sir George,93.Rodriguez, Island of,233Roebuck, H.M.S.,23,240;a sixth-rate vessel,24;guns,26;officers,29;scale of provisions,30;dress of the sailors,31;founders,39.Roebuck Bay,39.Roeburne,39.Rogers, Woodes,43.Rolla,194,196,197.Rosemary Isles,39,213.Ross, Major,96;on the attempt to colonize New South Wales,82;commandant and lieutenant-governor,116;character,117;return to England,117;establishes martial law at Norfolk Island,122;in temporary command,143.Ross Point,97.Royal George,92.Royal Prince,19.Russell, Mr. Clark, his sketch of Dampier,40.Sadeur, James,37.Sailors, dress of,31;life on board ship,32;compared with the modern,32,33;improvement in the class,48;food and accommodation,49.Sandwich Islands,51.Sandwich, Lord,67,68.Sandy Hook,93.Santham, Mr. G.,70.Sardam, the frigate,14.Saunders, Sir Charles,93.Scarborough,80.Schanck, Cape,281;Mount,281.Schanck, Captain,280.Scilly Isles,247.Scipio,169.Scott, Captain,287.Selkirk, Alexander,43.Semple, Major,132.Shark's Bay,8,36,38.Shortland,105.Shortlands,279.Sierra Leone,241.Simon's Bay,223,288.Sirius,77,82,93,137,140,143;wreck of the,96-98.Skirving,165.Sleaford,169.Smith,234;his work at Pitcairn,234.Smollett,Roderick Random,31.Solander, Dr.,53,70.South Sea Islands,179.Southwell, extracts from his letters,95,96-98.Spanish, voyages to Australia,4.Spencer, Lord,211.76,222,232.Spragge, Captain Sir Edward,19.Stephens, Mr. Philip,59.Sterling,291.Stewart,229;imprisoned on thePandora,230;drowned,231.Stingray Bay,57.Stirling Castle,75.Stokes,291.Storm Bay Passage,159.Success,291.Sunda, Strait of,242.Supply,77,96,140,141,143.Sutherland, Forby,57.Swallow,50,51,100,137.Swan, Captain,19.Swan Point,21.Swiftsure,89.Sydney,59;harbour,81,184.Sydney Cove, wreck of the,170,176.Sydney Gazette, the first paper,157.Sydney, Lord,76.Table Bay,101.Tagus,233.Tahiti,50,52,105,169,222,223,229,234.Tamar,50,291.Tasman, Commander Abel Janszoon, his voyages and discoveries,7,15,37;death at Batavia,16;draught of the coast of Australia,36.Tasmania,170;capital of,290.Tench, Captain,137,279;his history of New South Wales,82,118,138.Teneriffe,78,223.Therenot, extract from hisRecueil de Voyages Curieux,11-15.Therry, Judge, his reminiscences of New South Wales,154;on the revolt against Captain Bligh,273,274.Thompson,257.Timor,20,39,198,226,228,249.Tofoa,224,226,228.Tom Thumb,170.Topaz,239.Torbay,113.Torres, Luis Vaez de, his explorations,4.Torres Straits,6,8,16,58,184,227.Trafalgar, battle of,214.Transportation, commission of enquiry,73.Tribulation, Cape,61.True Briton, The, extract from,236.Tubuai,234.Valparaiso,181,241,242.Van Diemen, Antonio, Governor-General of Batavia,7.Van Diemen's Land,7,95,120,177,182,223;settlement at,157.Vancouver,279;expedition under,143.Venerable,113.Venus,178.Vessel, a sixth-rate,26.Victoria,57,171.Victoria, sailors of the,33.Victory,93;launched in 1765,48.Vigo,66.Virginia,137.Vryheid,248.Waaksamheyd,99,101.Wager, loss of the,33;crew,49.Wallis,51,65;in command of theDolphin,50.Warrior,247.Waterhouse, Captain,179.Wattamolla Harbour,171.Wentworth, William Charles,291.West, Dr., extract from, on Governor Bligh,274.Westall,183.Weybehays,12.White, on the colony of New South Wales,83.Wickham,291.Wilkinson,65.William III.,23,29.Williams,234.Wilson's Promontory,282,283.Windmill Hills,283.Wouterlos,14.Wreck Island,194,197.Wright, Edward,35.Xenophon,183.York, Cape,5,8,58.York, Duke of,22.Young, Admiral Sir George,74.Young,234,235.Zeewigk,17.