Backbencher

In the book Botany Bay Mirages. It tell a story of what happened when people were sent to Botany Bay. They went though some hard times to get there. They would overload ships with these convicts and send them off the the Botany Bay. It was a way to get them out of the country and out of there minds. They showed the figures also of all of the different numbers of prisoners sent over at a givien time. This book showed a great deal on how and why things were started at Botany Bay. With a great amount of people that were flowing into the bay they had to come up with stratagies to keep them alive. They couldn't ship all of there food in, so they would let the convicts grow there food and maybe grow some extra for some income. In the beginning there were alot of people that had starved because of lack of the food. Then there was the small pox epidemic that killed a bunch of people. In this book it shows alot of good facts in the time that Botany Bay founded and how Austalians really came about. It was kinda werid how they would just send people to a foreign land for prison, but British people are kinda werid anyway. This was a easy reader for anyone who wants to know who the beginning residence of Australia are.