Journal of Captain Arthur Phillip
17 may 1787
- Left Portsmouth one week ago
- Mutiny planed by convicts on Scarbrough
- Rough sea, hard to write jurnal
- near Cape Town
- have over 500 animals or different animals
- enough to start a new enterprise in New South Wales
3rd May 1787
5th August
- stop to get fresh food and water
- lost 21 convicts of poor health
- 3 children ill
- Anchored in the bay of Rio
- meat, vegetables, rice and wine are cheap here
- purchased seeds of cotton, coffee, indigo and cassava
25 November
5th July 1787
- great heat and rain
- Rat, fleas and lice are introduced
- People praying that this is not the end
- 82 degrees