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Student Name: Yating Chang
Student ID: GEC000007P
Task1
1.Tahiti
2.
a) The sea was dangerous.
b) The winds did not always blow in the right direction for the sea travel.
c) It was such a long way it was difficult to bring enough food and water.
3.
a) Many people in Europe thought that in the Southern Hemisphere.
b) It must be a great big country but no one really knew much about it.
c) People loved the idea of sea adventures and new discoveries.
d) England was very interested in setting up a naval base and supply post in the Southern Hemisphere.
4.Captain James Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean.
5.
1) A Seaman
2) An astronomer
3) A mathematician
4) A cartographer
5) A …show more content…

3.Led irons were shackles placed around a prisoner’s ankles joined by a chain to restrict movement. Prisoners who attempted to escape were flogged and locked in solitary confinement on a diet of bread and water. A prisoner being flogged was secured to the flogging triangle, their legs were tied to the base of the flogging post and their hands to the top. Their back was stripped bare and a protective leather kidney belt buckled around their waist to protect their vital organs.
4.Convicts and prison guards both are from Britain to Australia. Although their identity is not the same, but they are all go out of Britain people. If the convicts did not listen to prison guards, they have had punished, prison guards used this way to control prisoners. Prison guards had watch the prisoners of punctual work, lazy or sick. Have crimes of people one day, prison guards will be appearance.
5.Food: The daily ration for a convict in Fremantle equated to roughly:
 Half a litre of tea and a third of a kilogram of bread for breakfast.
 Half a kilogram of meat and half a kilogram of potatoes plus a bowl of gruel or oatmeal soup for dinner.
 Half a litre of tea and a quarter of a kilogram of bread for supper.
Clothes: In 1862 the convict uniform consisted of:
 A leather belt
 Two pairs of boots
 Four pairs of socks
 Four handkerchiefs
 Four cotton shirts and two flannel shirts.
In winter, they received one fustian jacket and one duck jacket, a woollen vest and a

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