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New South Wales
Nov 12. 1812
Sir
Trusting you may not be displeased to hear from this distant Colony I take the liberty of troubling Sir Joseph Banks with a letter, happy if I can therein convay any useful information if not beg you will receive it as the offering of a grateful mind
The Native which your humanity fed and clothed in England returned in health to his native country; the polished manners and comfortable living of Englishmen made but a slight impression on his mind a few days after landing he left my house which I wished him to have made his home, made away with all his clothes & fowling piece which Mr Brown had given him for Some Peach Cyder and returned to his countrymen and Native life - So dificult and almost impossible it is to reconcile those people to a civilized life, but much more any thing like industry. The Natives have been pretty peaceable their depredations in the last two years have been confined to the cornfields