Photograph from Lieut. W. K. Harris 



CABBAGE TREES OX THE SOUTH COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES 



The British first occupied Australian soil when, in 1/88, Arthur Phillip, a captain in the 

 Royal Navy, arrived in Botany Bay with eleven ships, bringing 750 convicts. These convicts 

 had been sentenced to transportation from England, and were brought to Australia because 

 the American Colonies, having just become independent, could no longer be utilized as a 

 dumping ground. Finding the shores of Botany Bay unsuited to the requirements. Captain 

 Phillip went further up the coast and established his settlement where Sydney now stands. 

 This system of transportation continued until 1868, when the last Australian State refused 

 longer to allow it. The convicts, men and women, were used as laborers by the freeholders. 



