...ingratitude and extreme poverty of the foil and country at large ; thuugh great exertions have been made. Much cannot now be done; limited in food, and reduced as the people are, who have not had one ounce of frefli animal food fince tint in the country, a country and place fo forbidden and fo hateful, as only...

...at large, though great exertions have l>een made. Much cannot now be done, limited in food 17 April. and reduced as the people are, who have not had one ounce of fresh animal food since fii'st in the country ; a country and place so forbidding and so hateful as only to merit execration...

...dismal accounts, were published in the London papers. White, the principal surgeon, wrote 1 : — ' Much cannot now be done, limited in food and reduced...so hateful as only to merit execration and curses, for it has been a source of expence to the mother country and of evil and misfortune to us, without...

...equally, with no privileges for rank, alleviated resentment. Even so, the colonial surgeon wrote of 'a country and place so forbidding and so hateful as only to merit execration and curses'. The arrival of the Second Fleet in mid- 1 790, with fresh supplies though fully one-quarter of its...

...to annoy respectable folks. In the words of John White, surgeon with the First Fleet, Australia was "a country and place so forbidding and so hateful as only to merit execration and curses."" At the same time, and paradoxically perhaps, the association of Australia with hell humanizes the former,...

...mude. Much cinuot now I« done ; go Important hteUlgence from Botany Bay and America. fjan. ¿one; limited in food, and reduced as the people are, who have not had one ounce of fiefh animal food fince firft in the country, 3 country and iilace fo forbidden and fo hateful, as...