DETAILS, FICTION AND HOW TO LIVE ON LORD HOWE ISLAND

Smyth was in Sydney when the provision returned from the first voyage to Norfolk Island. His journal entry for 19 March 1788 noted that "the provision, in her return, landed at the island she [learned] in heading out, and all had been pretty agreeably amazed to discover great numbers of a fine turtle over the Seaside and, to the land amongst the tr