John Cuss- Cape Town 1787

13th October 1787

BANG! Sorry about that theres some backround noise there don't know whats going on. Anyway its been terible the last few days here Sam has had the Flu and its hard to get both our bloomin meals back to us. All of us were expecting to get the usel of fresh fruit but apperently, the captin siad that we woudent get very much because of the Governor is........ ticked of about us coming here! We are beeing let up deck even less than useol . When I was let up deck I found out that the gun fire at the start was a marine trying to scare the convicts on the Alixsander because of an atempt to mutiny on that ship. Thats allso one of the resons why were alowed up deck less. Im realy worried about Sam ,he's realy sick now I can't imagene the journey without him he helps me keep my serve of food beeing taken. Its so cramped in here coz the Bloomin captin has bout some more animals and there dieing coz we coldent get much food for em. Can't wait till we get to New Holland/Australia so we can get out of here. Fingers crossed for a pardon! That would be the life a free pice of land and ill be able to farm chiching chiching $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.