How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000
gallons of rum By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was
When, in 1796, Calcutta-based Scottish merchants Campbell &
Clark dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove
to the colony of New South Wales, they were hoping to make their
fortune. The ship's speculative cargo was comprised of all kinds of
goods to entice the new colony's inhabitants, including 7000
gallons of rum. The merchants were planning to sell the liquor to
the Rum Corp, which ruled the fledgling colony with an iron grip,
despite the recent arrival of Governor John Hunter. But when the
Sydney Cove went down north of Van Diemen's Land, cargo master
William Clark and sixteen other crew members were compelled to walk
600 miles to Sydney Town to get help to save the rest of the crew
and the precious goods. Assisted by at least six Indigenous clans
on his journey, Clark saw far more of the country than Joseph Banks
ever did, and his eventual report to Governor Hunter led to
far-reaching consequences for the fledgling colony. And the rum?
Some of it was saved. By the bestselling author of The Ship That
Never Was and The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter, Three Sheets to the
Wind is a rollicking account of a little-known event that changed
the course of Australian history.
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