Two Sheep, chromolithograph after a painting by Frederick Taylor, published in 1884. Ref F3720. Image courtesy of ancestryimages.com
Animal: Sheep
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- Week 01 – Setting sail
- Week 02 – Storm in the Channel
- Week 03 – Waiting on the wind
- Week 04 – A fair wind
- Week 05 – the Cygnet sets sail
- Week 06 – a ‘perfect Hurricane’
- Week 07 – aftermath of the storm
- Week 08 – adieu to old England
- Week 09 – to sea at last
- Week 10 – fine weather and sea shanties
- Week 11 – ‘dangers stand thick all around’
- Week 12 – Crossing the line
- Week 13 – tensions reach breaking point
- Week 14 – steady progress
- Week 15 – high drama on the John Pirie
- Week 16 – towards Australia
- Week 17 – wet weather and wild tempers
- Week 18 – the port of Rio
- Week 19 – farewells and new beginnings
- Week 20 – infectious disease
- Week 21 – a sumptuous feast
- Week 22 – all ships underway
- Week 23 – Landfall
- Week 24 – Trouble on land and at sea
- Week 25 – The demon drink
- Week 26 – the expanding settlement
- Week 27 – a scandal averted
- Week 28 – A wedding on the beach
- Week 29 – Impressions of the mainland
- Week 30 – First encounters
- Week 31 – Farewell to the Duke of York
- Week 32 – Visions of the future
- Week 33 – seeking a site for settlement
- Week 34 – a tempest
- Week 35 – feasting on fish
- Week 36 – the Africaine approaches
- Week 37 – taxing ‘ardent spirits’
- Week 38 – lost in the bush
- Week 39 – settling in at Holdfast Bay
- Week 40 – Finally! The harbour is found
- Week 41 – Fire!
- Week 42 – the scourge of scurvy
- Week 43 – settling on Holdfast Bay
- Week 44 – ‘excellent eating’: kelp, parrots and a new oven
- Week 45 – Journey’s end and new beginnings
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