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Reverend Johnson: Bonwick, pp. 62–63; Porter, pp. 63, 192–94.

Service of February 10, christening, and marriages: Collins, vol. I, p. 14; Clark, p. 97.

Smuggling: Cal Winslow, “Sussex Smugglers,” in Hay, p. 119 onwards; also Hay, pp. 260, 267; Porter, pp. 114–15.

Women's camp and expulsion of sailors: Bowes, p. 70.

Fisher and Hart: Gillen, alphabetical listings; Bowes, p. 79.

First criminal cases, judge-advocate's court: Collins, vol. I, p. 7; Tench, pp. 44, 100–101.

Flogging: Nagle, p. 178.

Flogging of women: Easty, p. 98.

Chapter Ten

La Pérouse and natives: Tench, p. 170; Collins, vol. I, p. 16.

Visit by elders: Bowes, pp. 69–70.

Aboriginal culture and burial: Collins, pp. 454–55, 499–505; Mulvaney and Kamminga, pp. 95–96, 359–61.

Ancient burials: Mulvaney and Kamminga, pp. 154–55, 161–68.

Native tools: an excellent summation in Smith,
Bennelong;
Collins, vol. I, pp. 486–88.

Garden Island raid: Collins, vol. I, p. 13; Tench, pp. 215–16.

Collins laments end of good relations: as above.

Nagle and natives: p. 99.

Chapter Eleven

King and Norfolk Island: King,
Journal,
p. 40 onwards.

Jamison and Colley: alphabetical listing
ADB,
vol. I; for Jamison, alphabetical listings, Gillen and Chapman; King, pp. 43, 44.

Oaths of abjuration and assurance: C. M. H. Clark, vol. I, pp. 78–81.

Tom Barrett et al.: Collins, p. 8; Tench, pp. 44, 101; White, p. 129.

Awesome nature of executioner: Hay, p. 66.

Bloodworth: see alphabetical listing, Gillen, Chapman; alphabetical listing,
ADB,
vol. I; Collins, p. 115.

Unloaded ships: John Cobley,
Sydney Cove, 1788,
pp. 110–11; Collins, vol. I, p. 18.

New rations: Tench, p. 83.

Phillip and officers: Collins, vol. I, pp. 104, 105.

Conflict over Hunt sentence: Easty, p. 99; Cobley,
1788,
pp. 104–5.

Anti-scorbutics and venereal disease: White, pp. 113, 120, 133, 135, and notes, p. 243; Collins, vol. I, pp. 20, 373, 495–96.

Chapter Twelve

Exploring Broken Bay: Nagle, pp. 100–102; Hunter, pp. 95–108; Phillip to Sydney: HRA, vol. I, p. 18; Collins, p. 15.

Cooee:
Hunter, p. 103.

Phillip's health on return: see Phillip's health in Frost,
Phillip: His Voyaging;
White, pp. 127, 131; but see also Bowes Smyth, p. 77.

Looking for land along Parramatta River: White, pp. 127–31.

Discovery of Rose Hill, Parramatta: White as above; Phillip to Sydney, HRA, vol. I, p. 18.

Departure of ships: Collins, vol. I, p. 18.

Attack on Ayres and Burn: Collins, vol. I, p. 24; Tench, pp. 50, 104–5; Hunter, pp. 53–54.

Oakey and Davis: as above.

Reactions of Hunter and others: Hunter, p. 54.

Phillip's expedition and parley: Collins, pp. 24–25.

Phillip to the Marquess of Lansdowne: see Arthur Phillip,
Copies and Extracts of Letters from Governor Phillip: Giving an Account,
etc.

McEntire: Phillip in Hunter, p. 326; Tench, pp. 49, 105.

Henry Kable and the law:
ADB,
alphabetical listing; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listing; White, pp. 148, 149.

The Bryants: as for Kable, also alphabetical listing (Braund for Broad), Cobley,
Crimes;
White, p. 88; Collins, pp. 44, 45.

Corbett: as for above; then Tench, p. 61; Collins, vol. I, pp. 26, 27, 541n.

King's birthday: Collins, vol. I, p. 25; Tench, p. 60; White, p. 140.

Phillip in pain: as above.

County of Cumberland: Collins, p. 25; White, p. 140; Tench, pp. 60, 112.

Sam Payton: White, p. 43; Tench, p. 61.

Earthquake: White, pp. 141–42; Collins, vol. I, p. 27.

Sam Payton's letter: Tench, pp. 62–63.

Execution of Corbett and Payton: Tench, pp. 61–63.

Chapter Thirteen

Ross to Evan Nepean: 10 July 1788, Cobley, pp. 187, 188.

Campbell to Lord Ducie: 12 July 1788, Cobley, pp. 191–93.

Phillip to Lord Sydney: July, September, HRA, Series I, vol. 1, pp. 46–48, 73, 77–78, 86–87.

Phillip to Nepean: HRA, as above, pp. 46, 55 (private letter).

The last transports vanish: Collins, vol. I, p. 38; Tench, p. 137; Bateson, p. 118.

The journey of the transports: Bateson, pp. 118, 119.

Failure of germination: Collins, pp. 31, 33.

Phillip orders
Sirius
to Cape Town: Hunter, p. 61; Tench, pp. 79, 120; Collins, vol. I, pp. 33, 34, 55.

Settlement of Rose Hill/Parramatta: Hunter, pp. 94, 95; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 300–303; Collins, pp. 37, 40, 42, 103; Tench, pp. 79, 136.

Augustus Alt:
ADB,
vol. I, alphabetical listing; Collins, pp. 10, 123; White, pp. 7, 125.

Aboriginal goat raid: Collins, p. 32.

Phillip asks Nepean for clothes for natives: HRA, as above, p. 46.

Capture of Arabanoo: Hunter, pp. 132, 133; Collins, vol. I, p. 49; Tench, p. 139.

Arabanoo in Sydney: Hunter, pp. 92, 93; Tench, pp. 142–45; Collins, vol. I, pp. 40, 43.

Convict raid on Botany Bay: Tench, pp. 144, 145.

Ration reduction: Collins, vol. I, p. 35.

Emergence of smallpox: Collins, pp. 496, 497; Hunter, pp. 92–94; Tench, pp. 146–49.

Surgeon White's “variolous material”: Alan Frost,
Botany Bay Mirages,
“The Mark of Cain,” pp. 190–210.

Finding and treatment of sufferers: Tench, pp. 146–48; Hunter, pp. 115, 116; White, pp. 19, 23; Collins, vol. I, pp. 53, 483.

Arabanoo and smallpox: Tench, pp. 147, 148.

Onset of syphilis and gonorrhoea: Collins, vol. I, pp. 20, 295–96.

Death of Arabanoo: Tench, p. 149; Collins, p. 54; Hunter, pp. 115, 116.

Chapter Fourteen

Building of storehouses: Hunter, pp. 93–94.

Discovery of crime: Hunter, p. 94; Tench, p. 145; Collins, vol. I, p. 49.

Frazier: Tench, pp. 295, 296; also alphabetical listings, Chapman, Gillen.

Trial and execution of marines: Tench, p. 145; as for discovery of crime.

Sirius
's journey: Hunter, pp. 61–76; Nagle, pp. 105–9.

Bread roll for government house dining: Tench, p. 166.

Chapter Fifteen

New crowding in Britain's prisons: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, chap. 34; Michael Flynn,
The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790,
p. 17; Siân Rees,
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary Story of the Lady Julian and Its Cargo of Female Convicts Bound for Botany Bay,
pp. 1–23.

William Richards: Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, especially chaps. 34 and 38; Flynn, pp. 13, 14, 127, 131; Bateson, p. 20.

Taking up and fitting of
Lady Juliana:
Bateson, pp. 120–22; John Nicol,
Life and Adventures, 1776–1801,
pp. 113–26.

Captain Aitken: Bateson, pp. 120, 121; Rees, p. 60; Nicol, p. 114.

Lieutenant Edgar: Bateson, ibid.; Nicol, pp. 116, 123; Rees, pp. 60, 62.

Catherine Heyland: Flynn,
Second Fleet,
alphabetical listing; Rees, pp. 78–80.

Margaret Sullivan: Rees, pp. 80–82.

Women offered King's mercy: Rees, pp. 84, 85.

Sarah Cowden: Flynn, non-alphabetical, p. 658; Rees, pp. 85, 86, 91, 92.

Nellie Kerwin (spelled Kirvein in Second Fleet records; also Karavan): Flynn, alphabetical listing under Kirvein; Rees, pp. 51, 63, 83–89; Nicol, pp. 120, 121.

Acceptance of King's mercy: Rees as above; Flynn, alphabetical listings.

Mrs. Barnsley: Flynn, alphabetical listing; Rees, pp. 70, 71; Nicol, pp. 115, 116.

Nicol in love: Nicol, pp. 121, 122.

Departure: Bateson, p. 120; Rees, pp. 96–99; Nicol, p. 121.

Nepean to Phillip: 20 June 1789, HRA, Series I, vol. I, p. 120.

Chapter Sixteen

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