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 * Date ||||  What I Learnt || To Do Tomorrow ||
 *  23.5.12 ||||  Food - The people who had a lot of money ate a lot of meat, seafood and chicken at banquets and dinners. The poor peole ate mainly pork, sausages, stews and pies. Middle class people also ate these foods and could afford to buy beef. Dinner waq s the main meal of the day. Late at night people would have supper. Water was not considered safe to drink. Mild was mainly for children or invalid s. ||  I am going to learn about transportation. ||
 *  23.5.12 |||| Transportation - In the 18th century, transportation was basic compared to today's standards. Most people had to walk everywhere or rode on horses. Most people could not afford carriages or wagons. When people travelled to another country they went by small wooden ships or stagecoach that gets pulled by a horse. || So excited to learn about Crimes and Punishments. ||
 *  24.5.12 |||| Crime and Punishment - During the 18th century the death penalty was used a lot at public executions where people would bring the entire family to watch. Some examples of crime and punishments are transportation and penal servitude (jail), hanging (for crime like murder, pick pocketing, stealing), imprisonment, hard labour, physical punishment (whiping), sending the person to the armed forces (army) or fines (the least common one used). || Looking forward to learning about clothes people wore. ||
 *  24.5.12 ||||  Nearly all men wore the same basic clothes for business, recreation and home. They wore tight knee length britches and long stockings with heavy buckled shoes. They also wore vests and a hat. Women had more variety. They wore gowns, corsets, petticoats and wire hoops for their big skirts. Children - both boys and girls wore shifts, stays, petticoats and laced up dresses. Boys started wearing suits when they were about 5. || I am glad to find imformation about England's healths . ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 26.5.12 |||| <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Society in the 18th century- During 17 the population of British was about 61/2 million people. At the end ofmthe 18th century the population grow fast and was over nine million people. land owners were rich and powerful in society. The richest of all were the noble people. The middle class people were merchants and professional men in the towns. Below them was the largest group of all the populations such as crafts men and labours. || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> I am so excited to find the explorers that found Australia. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2.6.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The exporers I found were Willem Jansz in 1603, Luiz Vaez De Torres in 1607, Captain Cook in 1770, Abel Tasmen in 1645 and Francois Pelsaert in 1629 and William Dampier in 1688. ||  || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I cannot wait until I find some information on Willem Jansz. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 2.6.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Willem Janzoon was born in 1570 and died in 1630. He was also known as Willem Jansz. He was a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. Willem was born in Holland. In 1606 Willem sailed on a small boat called the Dufken (means little dove) to Indonesia to see what he could find around the coast and islands of New Guinea where there was supposed to be lots of gold. He traveled alongside the western coast of Cape York and landed at Weipa. He kept going along another 320km as he accidentally thought that the Torres Strait was part of New Guinea. His crew fought Aboriginal people and some died. Willem returned to New Guinea because people were not friendly. He was the first European to make contact with Aboriginal people of Australia. ||  || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I am excited to find information about explorer Luiz Vaez de Torres. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2.6.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Torres Strait was named after Luis Vaez de Torres, a navigator from the Spanish navy. Luis Vaez de Torres sailed through the cape york area only a few weeks after willlem Janszoon. There is not much imformation about the voyage. On 21 st of Desember Torres left Peru on an expedition h was the second person in charge of the crew. There was a mutiny and theyt changed directions on the baot. So, Torres sailed with a crew to the southern coast of New Guinea He travelled for 2 months through the dangerous area of the top of Australia. He saw the hills of Cape York and met some Aboriginal people. ||  || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Can't wait intil I can find imformation about Francisco Pelsaert. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">9.6.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Francisco was born in Antwerp in Belgium in 1591. He died in 1630. In 1628 he was in charge of the Dutch East India Company ship that went from Amsterdam to Batavia. There was precious jewels and silver coins on the boat. During the voyage the watch man on the ship made a mistake and the ship crashed into the Morning Reef in Western Australia. 40 people drowned and people were stuck on two islands. When some went to rescue them one of the men on the ship stole the treasure. He and some other men were very greedy. ||  || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Look forward to researching Abel Tasman. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">17.6.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Abel Tasman was born in the Netherlands in 1603. His full name was Abel Janzoon Tasman. He liked writing and became a navigator. Abel Tasman died in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1659. In 1642 the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Anthony Van Dieman asked Abel Tasman to find and map New Holland as there had been so many Dutch shipwrecks. Tasman sailed and discovered Van Diemans land, Tasmania. He sailed further east and discovered the islands of New Zealand. In 1644 he was sent back again to map the area properly. ||  || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Awsome that I get to learn about the ships in the first fleet. ||
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1.4.8.12 || <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> In the first fleet there were 11 ships. The eleven ships were "The Alexander" it was the largest transport shi, The "Borrowdale", it was for bringing the supplies onto the ship, "The Charlotte" was the ship that brings 88 male and 20 females convicts, "The Fishborn" which was for bringing supplies, "The Friendship" was for bringing 76 males and 20 female convicts, "The Golden Grove" was for bringing supplies, "The Lady Penrhyn" was for transporting ships, it sailed with lots of female, "The Prince of Wales"was for transporting ships, "The Scarborough" was for sailing the first and second fleets, "H.M.S Sirius" was the flagship, "H.M.S. Supply" was the smallest vessel to arrive in the first fleet. It was shipwrecked at Norfolk Island. ||  ||   ||