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King's birthday, 1789: Tench, p. 152; Collins, vol. I, pp. 57, 58.

The Recruiting Officer:
Collins, vol. I, as above.

Time-expired convicts: Collins, vol. I, pp. 60, 61.

Especially Cullyhorn: Gillen and Chapman, sometimes under Calleghan or Callighan, alphabetical listings; Collins, 548 n.; Cobley,
1789–1790,
pp. 63–65.

Problems with supplies: Collins, vol. I, pp. 68, 69.

John Harris and the night watch: Collins, vol. I, pp. 63, 64, 70; Hunter, p. 140.

Collins's opinion: Collins, vol. I, p. 70.

Grenville: Flynn, pp. 26, 27; Atkinson, p. 78.

Camden, Calvert and King and their contract: Flynn, pp. 26–41; Bateson, pp. 32, 131, 132; Byrne, Blackheath Connection, cyber book, chap. 38.

The recruitment of the New South Wales Corps: Flynn, pp. 28, 29; Blackheath Connection, chap. 38; Michael Duffy,
Man of Honour: John Macarthur,
early chapters.

Preparations of three transports: Flynn, as previously; Bateson, pp. 126, 127; Blackheath Connection, as previously; Duffy, early chapters.

HMS
Guardian:
Flynn, pp. 19, 24; Bateson, p. 124; Rees, pp. 72, 75.

Ruse's record:
ADB,
vol. II, alphabetical listing; Collins, vol. I, p. xix; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 301, 351, 364; Tench, pp. 197–98; Atkinson, pp. 169–71.

Phillip's plan: Phillip in Hunter, p. 301; the rest as above.

Major Ross's view: 10 July 1788, Ross to Nepean, Cobley,
1788,
that date.

Tench on capturing natives: Tench, pp. 158, 159.

Bradley's expedition and capture of two natives: Bradley journal, and illustration, p. 182 of journal.

Colby and Bennelong in Sydney: Tench, pp. 159, 309; Collins, vol. I, p. 71; Hunter, pp. 116, 139–42: Bradley, journal, online.

Banks's view: quoted, Nicholas Thomas,
Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook,
pp. 80, 81.

Colby's escape: Collins, vol. I, p. 71; Tench, p. 159; Hunter, p. 116.

Bennelong's Sydney career continued: Tench, pp. 159, 160, 167; Collins, vol. I, p. 92; Hunter, p. 132; King in Hunter, p. 269.

Name exchange: Tench, pp. 160, 161.

Regional tribes and clans: Willey, frontispiece map and pp. 14–16; Clendinnen, frontispiece map and pp. 107, 273. Web search also recommended under “Eora people.”

King on native borders: King in Hunter, p. 268.

Aboriginal authority system: Collins, vol. I, pp. 452–55, 460, 461, 488–92.

Bennelong's escape: Collins, vol. I, p. 92.

Chapter Seventeen

Ross to Norfolk Island: Tench, p. 63; King in Hunter, pp. 254, 245; Collins, vol. I, p. 78.

Hunger in Sydney Cove: Tench, p. 166; Collins, vol. I, pp. 97, 103.

Phillip's generosity: Collins, vol. I, p. 88.

Sirius
and
Supply
to Norfolk Island: Hunter, pp. 118–19; Collins, vol. I, pp. 78, 80; Ralph Clark, p. 116.

Wrecking of
Sirius:
Hunter, pp. 120–23; King in Hunter, pp. 254–57; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 382, 383; Clark,
Journal,
pp. 121, 122.

Ross declares martial law: Clark,
Journal,
p. 122; King in Hunter, pp. 254, 255.

Mutton birds: Hunter, pp. 125–26; King in Hunter, p. 214; Clark,
Journal,
pp. 285, 293.

Ross's allocation of land: Atkinson, pp. 228, 229, 231.

Ross as light punisher: Clark,
Journal,
pp. 201, 219, 223.

Chapter Eighteen

Riou and the
Guardian:
Bateson, pp. 124, 125; Rees, pp. 161, 162.

Lady Juliana
's progress to Rio: Bateson, pp. 121, 122; Nicol, pp. 121–27; Rees, pp. 111–60.

HMS
Guardian
's collision with ice: Bateson, pp. 124, 125; Rees, pp. 177, 178; Flynn, pp. 24, 25.

Return of
Guardian
to Cape Town and arrival of
Lady Juliana:
Nicol, p. 128.

Transfer of people and supplies to
Lady Juliana:
Rees, p. 183; Nicol, p. 128.

Emancipation of Bloodworth and
Guardian
men: Collins, vol. I, pp. 115, 160, 161.

Sydney ration reductions: Tench, p. 166; Collins, vol. I, pp. 97, 103.

Surprize, Scarborough, Neptune:
Flynn, pp. 30, 31; Bateson, pp. 126, 127.

Arrival of soldiers: Flynn, p. 35.

Loading of transports: Flynn, pp. 32–34; Bateson, pp. 128–31.

Robert Towers: Flynn, alphabetical listing.

Trail and Shapcote: Bateson, pp. 126, 128, 130; Flynn, pp. 27, 33, 35; Tench, p. 173.

Evan Nepean to naval agent: Flynn, p. 39.

Grenville to Phillip: HRA, pt. II, vol. I, p. 120.

Harriet Hodgetts: Flynn, alphabetical listing.

Chapter Nineteen

John Macarthur: For a study of Macarthur's origins, see Michael Duffy,
Man of Honour: John Macarthur; ADB,
vol. II, alphabetical listing; Flynn, pp. 37–41; John Ritchie,
The Wentworths, Father and Son,
pp. 33, 34.

Nicholas Nepean:
ADB,
vol. II, alphabetical listing; Flynn, pp. 13, 26, 32, 39–42.

Conflict with Gilbert: Flynn, pp. 35–41; Ritchie, pp. 32–35.

D'Arcy Wentworth's career as a highwayman: Ritchie, pp. 1–24.

Captain Trail and the
Neptune:
Ritchie, pp. 29, 32–40.

Primitive sanitation: Elizabeth Macarthur's Journal, HRNSW, vol. II, p. 366.

The Macarthurs' discomfort: as for previous note.

Female convicts on
Neptune:
Ritchie, p. 30; Flynn, p. 33.

D'Arcy and Catherine Crowley: Ritchie, pp. 31, 34; Flynn, alphabetical listing.

Chapter Twenty

The
Justinian:
Flynn, pp. 32, 43.

The journey of the Second Fleet proper: Bateson, pp. 126–29; Flynn, pp. 42–48.

Elizabeth Macarthur: HRNSW, vol. II, p. 489.

The Macarthurs' transfer to
Scarborough:
Flynn, p. 48.

Captain William Hill: 26 June 1789, HRNSW, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 367; MSS 6821, ML.

Hill's attitude to shackles and lack of exercise: as for previous note.

Arrival of
Lady Juliana
in Sydney Cove: Tench, pp. 169, 170; Collins, vol. I, pp. 93, 96; White, pp. 20, 21; Hunter, p. 128; Phillip in Hunter, p. 299.

Arrival of
Justinian:
Tench, p. 172; Hunter, p. 128; Phillip in Hunter, p. 301.

Arrival of
Surprize:
as for previous note.

Erection of portable hospital: Collins, vol. I, pp. 101, 103; White, p. 21.

Arrival of
Neptune
and
Scarborough:
Collins, vol. I, pp. 99, 100, 106, 107; Tench, pp. 172, 173; Phillip in Hunter, p. 301.

The Reverend Johnson and the sick: Bonwick, pp. 91–97.

Captain Hill's estimation of the Sydney Cove area: HRNSW, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 367; MSS 6821, ML.

And of Parramatta: as for previous note.

Convict women making clothes: Tench, p. 166.

Leasing of
Surprize
to go to Norfolk Island: Phillip in Hunter, p. 301; Ritchie, p. 52; Collins, vol. I, p. 106.

Rations on Norfolk: Collins, vol. I, p. 135.

Wentworth's arrival and birth of his son: Ritchie, pp. 52, 53.

John Irving: Tench, pp. 168, 312; Collins, vol. I, pp. 80, 181, 360; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listings.

Dennis Considen:
ADB,
vol. I, alphabetical listing; Gillen, Chapman, alphabetical listing; Ritchie, pp. 54, 55.

Wentworth's Norfolk Island career: Ritchie, pp. 56, 60, 61–63; Collins, vol. I, p. 106; Ralph Clark, pp. 180, 184, 186, 191.

Ralph Clark and flogging: pp. 191, 197.

Near mutiny: Ralph Clark, p. 192.

Renewed floggings: pp. 199, 202.

Wentworth's intervention: Clark, p. 197.

Ruse's farming success: Tench, pp. 197, 198, 256; Collins, vol. I, pp. 130, 135, 136.

Arrival of Elizabeth Perry: Tench, pp. 197, 198; Collins, vol. I, p. 88; Flynn, alphabetical listing.

Chapter Twenty-one

Nicol and
Lady Juliana
prepare to leave: Nicol, p. 130.

Smilax
and fertility: as for previous note.

The coming of the whale: Tench, p. 174; Collins, vol. I, pp. 108–10.

The whale feast: Tench, pp. 176–78; Collins, as for previous note.

Bennelong at Manly: Tench, pp. 176–80; Collins, as for previous note.

His gift for the governor: as for previous note.

The governor visits Bennelong: Tench, p. 178; Collins, vol. I, pp. 109–11.

Lieutenant Waterhouse: Tench, pp. 178–80; Collins, vol. I, p. 111;
ADB,
vol. II, alphabetical listing.

Phillip at Manly: Phillip in Hunter, pp. 306–11; Collins, vol. I, pp. 109–11; Tench, pp. 178–80.

Phillip's wounding: as for previous note.

Withdrawal to Sydney: Tench, p. 180; Collins, vol. I, pp. 111–12.

Collins on Phillip's trusting nature: Collins, vol. I, p. 111.

Bennelong not blamed: Tench, p. 184; Collins, vol. I, p. 112; Phillip in Hunter, pp. 309, 311.

Phillip's men looking for Bennelong: as for previous note.

Bennelong, Barangaroo, and others: Tench, pp. 184–86; Collins, vol. I, pp. 311–12.

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