A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
by Watkin Tench
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'I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius.'In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet. This curious young captain of the marines was an effortless storyteller. His account of the infant colony, introduced by Tim Flannery, is the first classic of Australian literature.On leaving England, Tench was commissioned by the publisher John Debrett of Piccadilly to write a book about his adventures. In fact he wrote two. A Narrative of the Expedition to Bota...
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- A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
- Watkin Tench
- PREFACE A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I.
- A Retrospect of the State of the Colony of Port Jackson, on the Date of my former Narrative, in July, 1788.
- CHAPTER II.
- Transactions of the Colony from the sailing of the First Fleet in July, 1788, to the Close of that Year.
- CHAPTER III.
- Transactions of the Colony, from the Commencement of the Year 1789, until the End of March.
- CHAPTER IV.
- Transactions of the Colony in April and May, 1789.
- CHAPTER V.
- Transactions of the Colony until the Close of the Year 1789.
- CHAPTER VI.
- Transactions of the Colony, from the Beginning of the Year 1790 until the End of May following.
- CHAPTER VII
- Transactions of the Colony in June, July, and August, 1790.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- Transactions of the Colony in the Beginning of September, 1790.
- CHAPTER IX.
- Transactions of the Colony in part of September and October, 1790.
- CHAPTER X.
- The arrival of the 'Supply' from Batavia; the State of the Colony in November, 1790.
- CHAPTER XI.
- Farther Transactions of the Colony in November, 1790.
- CHAPTER XII.
- Transactions of the Colony in Part of December, 1790.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- The Transactions of the Colony continued to the End of May, 1791.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- Travelling Diaries in New South Wales.
- CHAPTER XV.
- Transactions of the Colony to the end of November, 1791.
- CHAPTER XVI
- Transactions of the colony until 18th of December 1791, when I quitted it, with an Account of its state at that time.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- Miscellaneous Remarks on the country. On its vegetable productions. On its climate. On its animal productions. On its natives, etc.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- Observations on the Convicts.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- Facts relating to the probability of establishing a whale fishery on the coast of New South Wales, with Thoughts on the same.
- THE END
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