THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1938.
A HEROINE FROM BOTANY BAY: ODYSSEY OF AN ENGLISHWOMAN
A-romantic tale of an 18th cen-
the
Only two years before, Capt.
Bligh had arrived in Timor after being set adrift in the South Seas by the mutineers of the Bounty. When news of this mutiny reached London Capt. Edward Edwards was despatched in the Pandora to round up the culprits.
Ten weeks later, after hair- tury Englishwoman's adventures in raising adventures, theparty the South Seas is told for the first reached the Dutch island of Timor, time in it's complete form in a 13,000 miles from Botany Bay. book, "The Girl from Botany Bay," published in New York in a limited edition by Prof. Frederick A. Pottle, head of the Department of English of Yale University.
Students of Boswell have long been aware that Dr. Johnson's biographer interested himself in this woman, Mary Broad, who was After capturing some of them at deported to Australia for stealing Tahiti, he suffered shipwreck, and a cloak in the streets of Plymouth: he also made his way in an open Discoveries in Lord Talbot of boat to Timor, taking some of his Malahide's castle near Dublin have prisoners with him. In Timor he yielded many details.
The latest took charge of the Bryant family discovery was made this
their year, and
companions, putting when
American bibliophile, them in irons. Lt. Col. Ralph Isham, found a This odd party set sail for the small packet on which Boswell had Cape of Good Hope in a vessel of written: "Leaves from Botany Bay the Dutch East Indies Company. used as Tea.”
There was much sickness on board. These withered, tea-leaves were Both Emanuel and his father died presumably given to Boswell by at Batavia, and during the voyage Mary Broad as a souvenir of her from Batavia to the Cape two more strange Odyssey.
of the convicts from Botany Bay EIGHT MONTHS' VOYAGE succumbed, while a third jumped Reconstructing the story, Pro-overboard. fessor Pottle tells how Mary At the Cape Mary and her. Broad, a native of Fowey, Corn-daughter and the four other sur- wall, was sent at the age of 22 to vivors from Botany Bay were put Botany Bay with the first fleet of convicts transported to Australia. Amongst the men was William Bryant, a Cornish fisherman, who had received a seven years' sen- tence for resisting Revenue officers When she arrived in England, who tried to arrest him for smug-Mary, who was then 27, was pack- gling.
ed off to Newgate, and it was at It took the fleet eight months to this stage that Boswell interested reach its destination, where the himself in her extraordinary case. prisoners suffered innumerable A year later he secured a pardon hardships. Mary soon married for her, and it was he who supplied Bryant, born.
and two children
on board H.M.S. Gorgon, but dur- ing the voyage to England little Charlotte died and was buried at sea.
SENT HOME TO FOWEY
her with were:
funds and appealed to his friends to do likewise:
Finally, Boswell arranged for her to go by ship to Fowey to visit her family.
In October, 1794, seven months before his death, Boswell wrote to his brother David and asked him to see that Mary Boyd's gratuity of £5 was paid.
What happened to Mary after Cornwall nobody knows.
í On March 28, 1791, Bryant, who had served out his sentence, made a bold attempt to flee from Aus- tralia to England. Accompanied by his wife, their son Emanuel, who was three years old, and their baby, Charlotte, he set sail with seven other convicts in an open boat stolen from the Governor of she went to the colony.
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