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CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER V | |
| Phillip's Choice of a Site—La Perouse — Selection of Port Jackson—Outbreak of Scurvy—The Character of the Convicts—The First Execution—The Official Proclamation of the Colony—Phillip's Address to the Convicts—Expedition to Norfolk Island—The Condition of the Settlement, | 45 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Phillip and the Blacks—His Description of their Appearance, Manners, Customs and Mode of Life generally—Arabanoo—Bennilong—Phillip Wounded—Bennilong's Visit to England—A Savage Order of Reprisal, | 60 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| The Antagonism of Major Ross—The Marines—The Quarrel between Ross and His Officers—Phillip's Action—Ross's Opinion of the Colony's Prospects—His Complaints—The 'Watch' Dispute—Phillip's Forbearance—The Court-Martial on Meredith—Phillip's Detractors—Southwell and His Letters, | 82 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| King sent to Norfolk Island—The Explorations of Phillip and His Officers—Tench's Description of the Country seen—His Poor Opinion of it—The Blue Mountains—King and His Island Colony—Plot and Disaster—The Harvest—Phillip's Farm at Rose Hill—A Hopeful Letter Home, | 105 |
