The document summarizes the difficult life of a laborer in Botany Bay, Australia. It describes how the laborer and their family worked long hours without pay or rights and were not treated fairly. It then tells the story of how the laborer's parents died from overwork and they were separated from their siblings and forced into mining gold at only 10 years old. The laborer looks back sadly on the days working as a slave until finally dying, believing they would now be free.