The Story of Mary Bryant Part I
It was largely unknown territory, though Lieutenant ( later Captain) James Cook had reported favourably on Botany Bay in 1770. It was nine months by ship from England, and almost nothing of the country had been explored by Europeans and little was known of the native inhabitants.
It was completely unknown and uncharted territory with no known settlements of any kind, the nearest European settlements were in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia) over 5,000 kilometres from Botany Bay to which they were heading on the east coast of Australia.
It was to this place that Mary and her fellow convicts were destined to go.
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