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A convict diary

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A convict diary

John Ward's transportation to Australia and time spent incarcerated on Norfolk Island - 'the Botany Bay of Botany Bay', is a rare account from a literate convict. Using colourful language, he recounts his own life story, as a groom to an officer and a gentleman in England, to his downfall into crime and life as a convict.

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