Author note: Written at sea en route to Norfolk Island 4 June 1805.
[Grant was shipped from Port Jackson to Norfolk Island aboard the Lady Nelson as a result of being sentenced to 5 years' hard labour for "quoting the English Law, in a Letter to Governor King".
(Source: This Beauteous, Wicked Place : Letters and Journals of John Grant, Gentleman Convict. John Grant, edited by Yvonne Cramer.)]