Moreton Bay by F.W. Mole — Read

Pearce Lannigan, Commissioned Captain in the 57th Regiment and Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, had been advised by the captain of the brig Amity that a transport had arrived in the bay and was now on its way up the Brisbane River. In less than an hour it would be moored in the Bight, a bend in the river formed by a sharp sweep of the current round Kangaroo Point.

The settlement was a very primitive one, governed by a military despotism. Besides the commandant there were other military officers who had charge of the troops. The staff consisted of a captain, two lieutenants, and two ensigns. There were also the hospital surgeon, a surveyor, a botanist, a superintendent of convicts, a superintendent of agriculture, an overseer of works, a commissariat officer, a chaplain, and several other officers of minor grades. The native name of the settlement was Maginchin, subsequently named Brisbane, after Sir Thomas Brisbane, the Governor of New South Wales, who first visited the Moreton Bay Settlement in 1824.