Everything human is pathetic.

The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

There is no humor in heaven.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
Captain Cook found Australia in 1770, and eighteen years later the British Government began to transport convicts to it.

Altogether, New South Wales received 83,000 in 53 years.

The convicts wore heavy chains; they were ill-fed and badly treated by the officers set over them; they were heavily punished for even slight infractions of the rules; "the cruelest discipline ever known" is one historian's description of their life .-- [The Story of Australasia.