Bound for Botany Bay. Narrative of a Voyage in 1798 aboard the Death Ship "Hillsborough".

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(Sydney 1965). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped dustjacket. (xvi 204pp.). With 16 full-page plates and illust. endpapers. NOTE: The convict ship "Hillsborough" sailed from England on the 20th December 1798 with 300 convicts aboard; 95 died on the voyage and 6 more died soon after reaching Sydney on 26th July 1799.