Sarah Bellamy - Botany Bay - 1787

18th Januray,1787

Ello it's me Sarah again and we are in Botany Bay finaly!We had a pretty hard time getting here there was the rough waves,the Dutch Govener not wanting us and us convicts were not allowed of the ship  at Rio de Janiero.All us covicts were expeting to get free but nooooo we have to work it sucks.We have to build houses while everyone else sits and relaxes.

John Ward - Botnay Bay - 1788

18Th January  1788

Hello I'm dead and I have been hauting people getting my revange. The reason I'm dead is because of the mutiny. I remember the fo rough was tires at Van Dieme 's Land (Tasmania)  but we didn't stop because it was to rough at sea. When we got there they put arrows  on our pants but no one Knows why because they didn't put them on the rich people. We got one day rest and then  we started working. We had to cut the grass, catch fish and start cutting down some trees. But we did that for  nothing because the captain said " This place is terrable I heard there was Port Jackson nere". So we then moved to Port Jackson and started to build the colony for real this time. The next day the captain rasaid the Union Jack.


REMEMBER  I did none of this, I was dead.

Ann Beardsley - Cape town - 1787

13 November


Ello! it's me again Ann Beardsley. Today was great, we finaly left Rio de Janeiro and are at Cape Town.we are finaly here and even better we're finaly getting stocks of grain, but we have to have animals on the nanny goat (boat), they'll way us down! and they'll probably die and stink it up because we dont have anough hay. Well please wish me luck on the way to botany see ya slater.

John Carney - Botany Bay - 1788

18 Janury 1788

Me dead body has been floating around the ship for a while now.

James Brown-Cape-Town1787

Cape Town 13th October 1787





Hello there today me and me mate are stinking hot and me mate were in the muinty and I graped the gun and me shot the merines and me got sent down to the hulk. Now me am going to smash the champer pot on the merines and me said it was the person next to me,he got in troulble he got cat of  nine tale.

Jame's Heading Cape-Town 13th October 1787

13th October 1787

Hey me name is James Heading! Here we arrivin at Cape-Town.Some convicts are Mutinying this ship and im hoping they get control so we can be free! At the moment its very foggy and the captain is having alot of trouble steering this ship.  I was being whipped by my convict partner a few days ago and I still have the cat of nine tails marks all over my back and it hurts whenever I lye down. Where nearly at our final destination Botany Bay! I heard a convict died in one of the ships. I dont know how long where staying here,im hoping its not to long because I want this voyage to end so I can have a good rest of my life. Im pretty hungry and im getting headakes from eating these gross biscuits.

John Owen Cape Town 1787

13th October, 1787

I just arrived in Cape Town which is in South Africa. The Dutch Govenor is not happy that us british people have arrived. Today me herd there were some convicts on the Alexander,armed with pistols,knives and iron bars tried to munity. The Dutch has only allowed us three days bread. Captain Phillip has the Governor for more. Today we left Cape town after finally receiving stocks of grain. However,we haven't got enough hay to feed the new animals on board.