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I now gave up keeping watch, having kept it regularly
for the last six months. Marked a tree F. 104, being 104th camp from
Geraldton.


PART II
GENERAL HISTORY


THE FIRST SETTLEMENT
+Source.+--Historical Records of Australia. Vol. I, pp. 9-32, 373
In 1783 England recognized the Independence of her American
Colonies, and thus lost the settlements to which she usually
transported her criminals. By 1786 her gaols had become woefully
overcrowded, and consequently it was decided to establish a penal
colony at Botany Bay. Captain Phillip was selected as commanding
officer of the expedition.

GOVERNOR PHILLIP'S FIRST COMMISSION
GEORGE R.
George the Third, etc., to our trusty and well-beloved Captain Arthur
Phillip, greeting:
We, reposing especial trust and confidence in your loyalty, courage and
experience in military affairs, do, by these presents, constitute and
appoint you to be Governor of our territory called New South Wales,
extending from the northern cape or extremity of the coast called Cape
York, in the latitude of 10 deg.


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