
The pioneer, in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip R.N. proceeded from Botany Bay to Port Jackson, Henry Macbeth-Raeburn, 1936, hand coloured mezzotint. National Library of Australia
Ambition and adventure: the early life of Arthur Phillip
Notes
- 1. Letter from the Macquis do Lavradio to Senhor Martinho de Mello e Castro, Rio de Janeiro, 10 May 1778. National Archives, Lisbon, reprinted in Louise Becke and Walter Jeffrey, The naval pioneers of Australia, John Murray, London, 1899, p319.
- 2. Horatio Nelson describing Phillip in a letter to his wife, 7 April 1798, private collection, quoted in Alan Frost, Arthur Phillip 1738–1814: his voyaging, Oxford University Press, 1987, p260.
- 3. Colonel George Landmann, Adventures and recollections of Colonel Landmann, Colburn & Co, London, 1852.

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