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Page 3 - What is done, your honour, to make us better ? Once a week we are drawn up in the square, opposite the Military Barracks, and the soldiers are drawn up in front of us, with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets ; and a young officer then comes to the fence, and reads part of the service, and that takes, may be, about a quarter of an hour, and that is all the religion we see.
Page 20 - The name of Macquarie Harbour is associated exclusively with remembrance of inexpressible depravity, degradation and woe. Sacred to the genius of torture, Nature concurred with the objects of its separation from the rest of the world to exhibit some notion of a perfect misery. There, man lost the aspect and the heart of man.
Page 55 - Howe, that there was every probability of accomplishing our wishes, and 'scotch the snake' - as they say - if not kill it. Pugh and I accordingly proceeded to the appointed hut: we arrived there before day-break, and having made a hearty breakfast, Warburton set out to seek Howe. He took no arms with him, in order to still more effectually carry his point; but Pugh and I were provided with muskets and pistols. The sun had been just an hour up, when we saw Warburton and Howe upon 242 the top of a...
Page 54 - ... floor was neatly laid with bark, a huge honeysuckle sheltered it in the rear, and a sweet stream trickled below the grassy slope in front. A visitor in 1823 compared the place to the Valley of Rasselas, and was charmed with its scenery. He was awe-struck when standing at the brink of a neighbouring basaltic precipice, 600 feet deep to the dark abyss, through which a silvery line indicated the path of the Ouse, or Big River. He found the hut tenanted by the wife of one of Mr Lord's stockmen. Interrogating...
Page 55 - Governor, by whom he was permitted to act, and allowed to join us; so he and I went directly to Warburton, who heartily entered into the scheme, and all things were arranged for putting it into execution. The plan was...
Page 56 - ... wood, when I presented my pistol at him and desired him to stand: he drew forth another, but did not level it at me. We were about fifteen yards from each other - the bank he fell from between us. He stared at me with astonishment...
Page 23 - ... even among the most hackneyed and most hardened of malefactors there is still about them a softer part which will give way to the demonstrations of tenderness : that this one ingredient of a better character is still found to survive the dissipation of all the others, — that, fallen as a brother...
Page 55 - Shannon, standing so completely by itself, and so out of the track of anybody who might be feared by Howe, that there was every probability of accomplishing our wishes, and' scotch the snake,
Page 57 - Black beard against grey beard for a million!' and fired; I slapped at him, and I believe hit him, for he staggered, but rallied again, and was clearing the bank between him and me when Pugh ran up and with the butt end of his firelock knocked him down, jumped after him, and battered his brains out, just as he was opening a clasp knife to defend himself.
Page 56 - Warburton was a considerable distance away. I ran very fast ; so did Howe ; and if he had not fallen down an unexpected bank, I should not have been fleet enough for him. This fall, however, brought me up with him ; he was on his legs and preparing to climb a broken bank, which would have given him a free run into the wood, when I presented my pistol at him and desired him to stand ; he drew forth another, but did not level it at me. We were then about fifteen yards from each other, the bank he fell...