Teamsters stop for 'smoko'. By the late century roads were improving and horse teams were supplanting bullocks (young castrated bulls) as the main mode of heavy haulage. Horses could travelmuch faster than a bullock team's top speed of only (about
Botany Bay convicts at work. On April the Queen sailed from Cobh, its decks crammed with 133 men, 22 womenand four young children taken from prisons throughout Ireland.