1788 by David Hill

Author:David Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2008-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Phillip added that the Sirius would soon sail north to purchase more livestock. Within months, however, the food shortage would be so great that the more immediate need of grain caused plans to change. The flagship would instead be sent on an urgent run to collect food from the Cape of Good Hope.

The challenges and problems of the new settlement in Sydney did not absorb Arthur Phillip to the extent that he forgot his orders, which included an instruction to colonise Norfolk Island, some fifteen hundred kilometres north-east of Sydney. Phillip’s instructions, signed by King George III, had explicitly called for the early settlement of Norfolk Island:

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