Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville

Author:Kate Grenville [Kate Grenville]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847676900
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2007-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

I read this again and again, trying to make sense of it. It was so sad and puzzling. Why was the old man so welcoming, why did he dance with joy? If he’d wanted to steal the spade, wouldn’t he have been able to do it well enough to avoid being caught? Why didn’t he spear Phillip?

I could hear Phillip’s voice, but I couldn’t hear the old man’s. I had a feeling he might have told the story differently.

Only a short time later, back in the settlement, the governor’s gamekeeper was speared. No one knew why (or if they did, they weren’t telling). This time Phillip sent a party of soldiers out. The captain in charge, Watkin Tench, left this account of his orders:

His Excellency informed me…that we were to proceed to the peninsula at the head of Botany Bay…and thence… to bring away two natives as prisoners; and to put to death ten; that we were to…cut off and bring in the heads of the slain; for which purpose hatchets and bags would be furnished.

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