I am a John warren, at age 24 I was convicted of forging a bill of exchange and was proven guilty and sentenced to a lifetime of penal servitude. I going be sent to Western Australia to live the rest of my live as a convict working on roads and bridges. As the marines load us up onto one of the six boats I realize that there are so many people, convicted of different crimes wondering what they did and what was their motivation. We convicts are stowed at the bottom of the ship forced and crammed together with no room while the marines, captain, and the passengers are to walk around as they please. Living on what little food they gave us and trying to make it through the long days as we travel to are new home.
It sound like there are a lot of people on the ships, and there is a down below? we use two different watercrafts. the first one is the dugout canoe and the other watercraft we use is a raft. we take a tree and sherpened bones and other tools we have made and carve out a canoe. the raft is made from smaller trees tied togeather. they are both great to catch fish off of.
Signed,
Arana
By: australiacolony on June 11, 2007
at 3:13 pm