The days are long and unbearable, being stuck in the hold for many days, surviving on what little food they give us. Being stuck with so many people who I don’t know is hard, but some of them are nice most of us tell stories about our lives and the reasons why we’re here. Most of the reasons are the same, people stealing things to survive such as money or livestock. It has many months at sea and many of the convicts have died of sickness and it is spreading rapidly, but the worst of it is the parasites, many rats and bugs fester on the boat torment us, spreading rashes and driving us mad. We stopped and went ashore one day I heard from the gaurds that its August 5, we stayed here for a month while the crewmen restocked ourn suppiles. Just for the women, they gave them new clothes and burned the old ones, suppling them with rice sacks to wear. We reached our destination on January 18, our ship was the first to arrive. The next day the other ships arrived and they began to investagate the area, finding nothing that Captin James Cook had promised. After sevearal days of searching some of the crew went to the other islands to see if the were anything we could use. They reported back that they found the Bay that Captin James Cook had talked about, later that day we moved over there and established a base.