Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia: With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales, Volume 1Libraries Board of South Australia, 1839 - Aboriginal Australians |
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aborigines acacia pendula afforded animals appeared arrived Australia banks boat Bogan bullocks bushranger callitris camp carts casuarina cattle chain of ponds channel Cirrus clear colony colour consisted continued course crossed Dawkins day's journey depôt Diprotodon direction distance early encamped eucalyptus exploring extensive feet felspar Finch fire fish flat fossil grass ground Gwydir Hawkesbury hill horses Horsf kangaroo Karaula lagoon land length Liverpool plains Liverpool range Megadesmus miles morning Mount Mount Arapiles Mount Hay mountains musquitoes Nammoy natives night north-west northward numerous Nundawàr range Ogilby open plain party passed Peel proceeded rain reached resembling ridge river road rock route sandstone scrub seemed seen side soil soon South Wales Species spot stream summit Sydney Tangulda tents thermometer tomahawk traced track travelled trees tribe valley water-course weather westward White wind Wingen wood
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Page 237 - In the neighbourhood of our camp the grass had been pulled up to a very great extent and piled in hay-ricks, so that the aspect of the desert was softened into the agreeable semblance of a hay-field. The grass had evidently been thus laid up by the natives, but for what purpose we could not imagine. At first I thought the heaps were only the remains of encampments, as the aborigines sometimes sleep on a little dry grass ; but when we found the ricks, or hay-cocks, extending for miles, we were quite...
Page 246 - And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
Page 154 - Some idea,' says Sir T. Mitchell, in his work on Australia, 'may be formed of the intricate character of the mountain ravines in that neighborhood, from the difficulties experienced by the surveyors in endeavouring to obtain access to Mount Hay. Mr Dixon, in an unsuccessful attempt, penetrated to the valley of the Grose, until then unvisited by...
Page 5 - I gave loose, at length, to my reflections, and considered the nature of the enterprise. But in comparing the feelings I then experienced with those which excited my youthful ambition, it seemed that even war and victory, with all their glory, were far less alluring than the pursuit of researches such as these, for the purpose of spreading the light of civilization over a portion of creation as yet unknown, rich, perhaps, in the luxuriance of uncultivated nature...
Page 173 - They would catch one of the bees, and attach to it, with some resin or gum, the light down of the swan or owl ; thus laden, the bee would make for the branch of some lofty tree, and so betray its home of sweets, to its keen-eyed pursuers, whose bee-chase presented indeed a laughable scene.
Page 318 - ... sprites.' All these ran in gracefully-curved lines, and enclosed the heaving heaps of reddish earth, which constrasted finely with the acacias and dark casnarinas around. Others, gilt with moss, shot far into the recesses of the bush, where slight traces of still more ancient graves proved the antiquity of these simple but touching records of humanity. With all our art we could do no more for the dead than these poor savages had done.
Page 275 - It was then that I regretted most bitterly the inconsiderate conduct of some of the men. I was, indeed, liable to pay dear for geographical discovery, when my honour and character were delivered over to convicts, on whom, although I might confide as to courage, I could not always rely for humanity.
Page 248 - An opinion prevailed both in those days, and in after ages, that some men had a power by the help of their gods to devote not only particular persons, but whole armies, to destruction. This they are said to have done, sometimes by words of imprecation ; of which there was a set form among some people, which ^Eschines calls J/of<|o/xfvijv eepctv, the determinate curse.
Page 118 - The waves of people at his word divide, Slow rolls the chariot through the following tide ; Even to the palace the sad pomp they wait : They weep, and place him on the bed of state. A melancholy choir attend around, With plaintive sighs, and music's solemn sound : Alternately they sing, alternate flow The obedient tears, melodious in their woe.
Page 129 - O YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem : for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.