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"on board his Majesty's Ship Glatton for New South
"Wales, a five months back: and I wish it had been
"my lot to have gone with them, for this place is
"a very bad one. We are double ironed, and work
"hard: and so close shut down betwixt decks when
"from work, and so many and so together, that
"we have a sad stinking place: and what is worse,
"we cannot keep ourselves clean.The men are very
"lousy, and are eat quite raw with lice: and our
"provisions are so bad, that the men break out all
"over sores, and look so bad and so yellow, that you
"would not take them to be Englishmen at all; nay
"you would be surprised to see them; for I was when
"I came first to this place.They rob one another; &
"write to one another's friends to draw money of them
"in their names: and they served me so; and
"have kept me quite without money, and am without
"yet. I had some old Letters by me, which they robbed
"me of when I came here at first: but I hope to
get some [i:e: money?] soon, and I think the rogues
" that have done it are gone to the Bay [Botany Bay]
"Our victuals would do in quality: but
"the quality is so bad, and the cooking so nasty,
"that nothing but clemming [starving] can force a
"man to eat it. We have meat for dinner one day,
& bread and cheese the other: boiled barley for break-
-"fast and burgen for supper: neither, good nor clean: to
things be? Could even the gentleman on the other side of the wainscoat fine fare to say as much?_ to whisper as much even in the well-prepared ear of his Noble in Office?_
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Identifier: | JB/116/647/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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647 |
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correspondence |
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d71 / d72 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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