Half of his journal was published and the other half was never seen - until it was found in a rural English bookstore.
Twenty pages of New South Wales' first governor Arthur Phillip's journal detailing our earliest colonial history has been found and submitted to the state library.
State Library of NSW senior curator Sally Hone said half of his journal was published and the other half was never seen - until it was found in a rural English bookstore.The commander of the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788 and begun writing down his experience and encounters. "Stealing the corn, stealing the maize at night, lurking in the woods and coming in and stealing," Hone said.
"Everyone was very desirous of making him welcome but what we had to give except the hatchets was received with indifference," Phillip wrote.The State Library now owns and displays the fragments of our colonial past.
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