[59] These names have here a special acceptation, and designate by no means natural or legitimate children.
[60] The canaries are recently arrived convicts, the government men established convicts, the emancipists liberated convicts, the bushrangers fugitive convicts.
[61] Loc. cit., p. 108.
[62] MacGillivray, Narration of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, vol, i, p. 151, 1852, cited in Waitz, Anthropologie, p. 203.
[63] Malte-Brun, Abrégé de Géographie Universelle, p. 883, Paris, 1844.
[64] Cunningham, loc. cit., vol, ii, p. 65.
[65] Malte-Brun, Abrégé de Géographie. In reality the disproportion between the free individuals of the two sexes was more considerable than is indicated in the above account, for children are included. But the number of the children of the free population amounted in 1828, to 6,837, according to Wentworth (Rienzi, l’Océanie, p. 543). Supposing that this number only amounted to 7,000 in 1830—say 3,500 boys and 3,500 girls—there would remain for the adult free population about 10,000 men and 4,000 women,—two women for five men.
[66] Henricq, Histoire de l’Oceanie, Paris, 1845.
[67] Lesson, Voyage autour du Monde, t. ii, p. 291. It was in 1824 that the author lived in New South Wales. Under the name of Port Jackson he comprises all the region of which Sydney is the capital.
[68] Cunningham, loc. cit., vol. ii, p. 7.