The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829Describes relations with Aborigines from first contact with the expedition of Phillip through to later contact and relations in Bathurst region from 1824; Based on unacknowledged secondary sources; Includes 19th century European-style representations of Aboriginal art apparently executed on the basis of descriptions contained in dispatches and letters. |
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aborigines afterwards anchored appointed arrived Australia banks Bass Strait Bathurst became Bligh Blue Mountains boat Botany Bay built bush bushrangers called Camden Cape Captain Phillip cattle Church coast Colonel colonists colony command Cook Creek Cumberland Darling December discovered discovery England English Evans expedition explore feet fish Flinders French Géographe Goulburn Government Governor King Governor Macquarie grass ground harbour Hawkesbury Hawkesbury River hills horses House Hunter huts kangaroo Lachlan Lachlan River Lady Nelson land left Sydney Lieutenant ment miles Mount Murray named natives Nepean Norfolk Island officers Oxley Parramatta party Plains Port Jackson Port Phillip RALPH DARLING reached regiment returned to Sydney River Road rocks sailed seen settlement settlers ship shores side Sir Thomas Brisbane South Wales Corps spears stone stream Sydney Cove Tasmania took town trees tribe vessels voyage Western William WILLIAM DAMPIER wood
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Page 305 - Twas merry in the glowing morn, among the gleaming grass, To wander as we've wandered many a mile, And blow the cool tobacco cloud, and watch the white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs ; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! Aye! we had a glorious gallop after "Starlight" and his gang, When they...
Page 14 - We got into Port Jackson early in the afternoon, and had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security.
Page 148 - ... be at an end, for here was a river that promised to reward all our exertions, and which appeared every moment to increase in importance to our imagination. Coming from the NE, and flowing to the SW, it had a capacity of channel that proved that we were as far from its source as from its termination. The paths of the natives on either side of it were like well trodden roads; and the trees that overhung it were of beautiful and gigantic growth.
Page 117 - ... kept rising gradually as far as the Eye could See. In a few places there appeared Swamps; In others no Trees and very Scrubby. By these Appearances it might be imagined easy to travel over that Space, provided the inaccessible Valley close at hand was crossed. Yet there is no doubt but what others of a Similar Nature would present themselves; As I am too well convinced now of their rugged and impassable state, which become at every Step an Ha! Ha.
Page 91 - ... roads and granaries and barracks and storehouses and churches; and trade began to develop. When Peron visited the colony in Bligh's governorship, he remarked with awe : "This assemblage of grand operations, this constant movement of the shipping, impressed on these shores a character of importance and activity which we were far from expecting in a country so lately unknown to Europe.
Page 92 - ... the ships of the squadron. Five vessels lay at anchor there, their spars black against the evening sky, and the long pennants drooping at the masthead ; the ' Nelson ' sitting like a queen in the midst of them, the admiral's white flag hanging over the stern. Steamlaunches were 'gliding at half power over the glassy waters, which were pink with the reflection of the sunset.
Page 54 - ... tion of Providence with unmurmuring patience. The Governor received daily the same ration as the meanest convict in the territory; and on those occasions on which 'the established etiquette rendered it necessary that he should invite the officers of the colony to dine with him at \ Government House, he usually intimated that they must bring their bread along with them, as he had none to spare; r folk Island, &c., by John Hunter, Esq., Post-Captain in his Majesty's Navy.
Page 175 - Minister, without farther inquiry into the tenor of Captain Baudin's instructions, or the particular object of his mission, obtained his Majesty's commands that the French vessels ' should be permitted to put into any of his Majesty's ports, in case of stress of weather, or to procure assistance, if necessary, to enable them to prosecute their voyage.
Page 272 - ... superstition ? Shall we forget, while every sea is traversed by our keels, and every wind brings home wealth into our harbours, that we have a treasure at home of which those from whom we draw our wealth are in...
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