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Hey good evening. Here we are aboard The Endeavour as she gently rocks anchored at Stingray bay, New Holland, 29th April 1770. We’ve finally reached land, and I can hear the excitement of the crew at successfully navigating to the coastal edge of this great South Pacific continent. I was once a farmer, and now I’m a sailor, and I should be out there working with my crew mates. However it's impossible to even walk to the deck and look upon this strange new land. The pressure and pain in my lungs is terrible, tuberculosis I’ve been told. Another name for tuberculosis is consumption, because it consumes your weight and it has left me thin, n’ weak and I’ve struggled to breathe for weeks. I feel that the end is near. I may be the first British subject buried on the soil of New Holland.

Sutherland passed away the following evening and was buried next to the stream on the shore of Kamay Botany Bay. He was the first British person buried on Australian soil.

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