Akers, the captain, and his mate
got drunk on rum and water daily. The cook of the 'Industry' was on
board the 'Elizabeth', the man whom Captain Blogg was flogging when
his crew seized him and threw him overboard. The cook also was now
pitched overboard for having given evidence against the four men who
had saved him from further flogging.
At this time also Captain Friend, of the whaling cutter 'Sarah Ann',
took shelter under the lee of New Year's Island, and he pulled ashore
to visit Scott the sealer. There he found the shipwrecked men and
women whom he took on board his cutter, and conveyed to Launceston,
except one woman and two men. It was then too late in the season to
take the whalers to Port Fairy. Captain Friend was appointed chief
District Constable at Launceston; all the constables under him were
prisoners of the Crown, receiving half a dollar a day. He was
afterwards Collector of Customs at the Mersey.
In November, 1835 the schooner 'Elizabeth' returned to Launceston
with 270 tuns of oil. The share of the crew of a whaling vessel was
one-fiftieth of the value of the oil and bone. The boat-steerer
received one-thirtieth, and of the headmen some had one-twenty-fifth,
others one-fifteenth. In this same year, 1835, Batman went to Port
Phillip with a few friends and seven Sydney blackfellows. On June
14th he returned to Van Diemen's Land, and by the 25th of the same
month he had compiled a report of his expedition, which he sent to
Governor Arthur, together with a copy of the grant of land executed
by the black chiefs.
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