Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.


Reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, don't often read nonfiction but its pretty good to learn about early settlement...Arriving there in late 1800, he found morale had lagged badly in the four years since King had left.The grindstones were worn out, the saws rusted and the master carpenter had been suspended for laziness and impertinence. The settlement swarmed with bastard children, some two hundred of them all illiterate and wild. The school master was in jail for debt and the lone missionary seemed "very unfit for a minister"

Ha! thats the least of it. It was a fucking disaster.