somewhere around the corner jackie french

The story of the Goat is really the story of that historic voyage, too, and their adventures, mapping the transit of Venus, hunting for the Great South land, exploring the New Zealand coastline and eastern Australia, facing ship wreck, attack, and disease… And Captain James Cook was so fond of her that he took her home with him. The British Royal Society made her a member - the only animal ever to join that respected club of scientists! They gave her a silver collar too. The British government gave her a pension. And by the end of the voyage she was the most famous goat in history! Now she was going to face an even bigger adventure - three years finding new lands, facing wild storms and shipwrecks, and plagues that would kill a third of the crew.īut she survived it all. She had already sailed around the world with Captain Wallis, providing milk for the captain and his officers. The Goat was famous even before she stepped onto the Endeavour. Which was why ships needed to call in to harbour often- not just for fresh water, but to find good grass that could be cut and dried for hay to feed their livestock. Ships in those days were like floating arks, small farms of animals to provide meat, milk and eggs to add to the usually stale rations. Her milk was badly needed, because food on ships in those days was pretty awful.Īctually the tiny ship also carried seventy-one crew, twelve marines, eleven scientists and their servants, seventeen sheep, a small mob of cattle for meat, four ducks and five chickens for eggs, a boar, a sow and her piglets for meat too, and three cats to catch the rats that swarmed on every ship. She gave Cook milk for the whole three years the ship had been away! This was pretty incredible for a goat - they usually don't give milk for nearly as long. The Goat That Sailed the World is the true story of the very stroppy animal who sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour, on the voyage that first mapped Australia's east coast and led to the British colony there 20 years later.

Somewhere around the corner jackie french