An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
The ships destined for Botany-Bay rendezvous at the Mother-Bank.--Leave that place, and proceed on the voyage.--The convicts on board one of the transports attempt an insurrection.--Are timely discovered, and the ring-leaders punished.--Arrived at Santa Cruz.--Transactions there.--Attempt of a convict to escape.--Description of Laguna, and the adjacent country. Departure from Santa Cruz.--Pass Cape Frio.--Arrive at Rio Janeiro. Transactions there.--City of St. Sebastian described.--Table of Winds, Weather, &c.
Anchor in Table-Bay.--Refreshments procured there.--Depart from the Cape of Good Hope.--Captain Phillip quits the Sirius, and proceeds on the voyage in the Supply.--The Sirius arrives in Botany-Bay.--Finds the Supply at anchor there.--Arrival of the Bussole and Astrolabe.--Leave Botany-Bay, and anchor in Port Jackson.--The Table of Winds, Weather, &c.
Frequent interviews with the natives.--Weapons described.--Ornaments.--Persons, manners, and habitations.--Method of hunting.--Animals described.--Birds, and insects.--Diary of the weather.--Departure of the Bussole and Astrolabe.--A convict pretends to have discovered a gold mine.--The fraud detected.--Observations for the longitude, &c
The Sirius leaves Port Jackson.--Sails for the Cape of Good Hope, by the Eastern Passage.--Falls in with many large islands of ice.--Casts anchor at Robin's Island.--Tables of the winds, weather, &c.
Depart from Robin's Island, and anchor in Table Bay.--The sick sent on shore.--Arrival of the Alexander transport.--Provisions procured for the settlement at Port Jackson.--Departure of the Sirius.--In great danger from a violent tempest.--Arrives safe at Port Jackson.--Tables of the winds, weather, variation of the compass, &c.
The small-pox makes its appearance among the natives.--Its fatal effects.--A criminal court held.--Six marines tried and convicted.--Governor Phillip visits Broken-bay.--Explores its various inlets.--Returns to Port Jackson. Broken-bay surveyed.--Botany-bay surveyed.--Two natives brought to the settlement, and kindly treated.--One of them makes his escape.
John Hunter
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AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL
of the TRANSACTIONS at
PORT JACKSON and NORFOLK ISLAND
with the Discoveries which have been made in
NEW SOUTH WALES and in the SOUTHERN OCEAN,
since the publication of
PHILLIP'S VOYAGE,
compiled from the Official Papers;
Including the JOURNALS of Governor PHILLIP and KING, and of Lieut. BALL;
and the
VOYAGES
from the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that
Ship's Company to England in 1792
POST CAPTAIN IN HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY
LONDON
CONTENTS
A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
LIST OF PLATES.
October 1786 to September 1787
Chapter II
September 1787 to January 1788
Chapter III
January 1788 to August 1788
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
February 1791 to March 1791
Chapter IX
Chapter X
A Voyage From Port Jackson to England
LIEUTENANT KING'S JOURNAL.
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Transactions at Norfolk Island
The End