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Some accounts state that Muir's rescue or flight was not the first of such escapes may be judged from a remark of William Robert Broughton, Royal Navy, who sailed from Port Jackson in, Oct. 13, 1795, " We abstained from following the example of other ships that have touched at this colony, by not taking away any of the convicts, a practice very general in merchant ships ".