A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Watkin Tench
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Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote an account of his experiences with the First Fleet in a book called "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay". Later he published this book, "A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson", where he takes up from where he left off in the previous account; July 1788 up until he left the colony in December 1791. This is one of the earliest published accounts of this pivotal period in Australian history. Tench displays all the assumptions and world-views of an officer of Imperial England, but also reveals his own intelligent personality and occasional flashes of empathy. The account is a classic of its kind and is invaluable to historians. (Summary by chocmuse) (6 hr 34 min)
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Chapter I. A Retrospect of the State of the Colony of Port Jackson, on the Date…
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Chapter II. Transactions of the Colony from the sailing of the First Fleet in J…
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Chapter III. Transactions of the Colony, from the Commencement of the Year 1789…
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Chapter VI. Transactions of the Colony, from the Beginning of the Year 1790 unt…
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Chapter IX. Transactions of the Colony in part of September and October, 1790
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Chapter X. The arrival of the 'Supply' from Batavia; the State of the Colony in…
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Chapter XIII. The Transactions of the Colony continued to the End of May, 1791
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Chapter XVI. Transactions of the colony until 18th of December 1791, when I qui…
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Chapter XVII Part 1. Miscellaneous Remarks on the country. On its vegetable pro…
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Chapter XVII Part 2. Miscellaneous Remarks on the country. On its vegetable pro…
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Chapter XIX. Facts relating to the probability of establishing a whale fishery …
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Patricia Ridley
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Thank you for reading this invaluable journal. I was heartened to her about the humane treatment of the Indians that was led by the governor. It was so different from the accounts I read about the treatment of the Indians by the colonists who settled north America.