What I Think It Would Be Like To Have Come To Australia On The First Fleet

I think a lot of people would be disappointed because they made a lot of news about Australia and that it was a great place to live and they even made a song about going to Botany Bay, so when they arrived, the land was NO good, opposite of what Captain Cook had said about the land.

On the boats there were diseases like small pox and scurvy which made a lot of people sick. There would've been a lot of movement on the boat. There were also a lot of rules on the boat and if you were bad you got flogged and other punishments. There was no privacy. I wouldn't like to be on the boat unless I was a rich settler. 

Interesting Facts

1. Their was a lot of singing on the boats 
2. When they were trying to Colonise Australia, the Trees were so hard they tried to use gunpowder to blow up the trees
3. On the ships, their was school for anyone who wanted to join, their were 4 grades. The school books were bibles
4. The women ships arrived during a terrible thunder storm
5. The males had a WILD party during the storm
6. When they were at Rio, Everybody had to eat 10 oranges a day to prevent scurvy 
7. In the Canary Islands, the only thing they had available was onions
8. On the HMS Sirius, they had a piano onboard
9. The broad arrows that were on the convicts clothes meant that the convict was owned by the British government. 
10. Between 1788 and 1850, 162 000 Convicts arrived in Australia in 806 ships

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By Caleb Gomez