Western Australia: A History from Its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth |
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acres agricultural amendment appointed April arrived Australind Bill Broome Captain Stirling Champion Bay coast Colonial Office colonists committee consideration Coolgardie Crown lands Debates discovery dispatch district Earl Grey emigration establishment Eucla expedition exploration export favour Federal Fitzgerald Fremantle further gold goldfields Governor grant Home authorities Hutt Ibid immigrants Imperial Inquirer Irwin Island John Forrest July June Kalgoorlie Kimberley King George's Sound labour land regulations leases Lord Goderich Lord Knutsford March matter ment miles miners natives necessary north-west opinion party pastoral Perth Gazette Proc Proceedings Legislative Council proposed question railway responsible government result revenue Secretary secured Select Sept settlement settlers ships Sir Frederick Broome Sir George Murray South Wales Statistical Summary Appendix Swan River tion town Vict Votes and Proceedings voyage W. A. Government Gazette W. A. Parl Western Australia whole
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Page 39 - The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, &c.
Page 18 - Australis Terra' is the most southern of all lands, and is separated from New Guinea by a narrow strait. Its shores are hitherto but little known, since after one voyage and another, that route has been deserted, and seldom is the country visited unless when sailors are driven there by storms.
Page 20 - I have heard it said among the Dutch, that their East India Company have long since forbidden, and under the greatest penalties, any further attempts of discovering that continent, having already more trade in those parts than they can turn to account, and fearing some more populous nation of Europe might make great establishments of trade in some of those unknown regions ; which might ruin or impair what they have already in the Indies.
Page 76 - Superintendent or other officer administering the colonial government, at the rate of forty acres for every sum of £3 so invested, provided they give previous security ; first, that all supplies sent to the colony, whether of provisions, stores or other articles, which may be purchased by the capitalists there, or which shall have been sent out for the use of them or their parties on the requisition of the Secretary of State, if not paid for on delivery in the colony, shall be paid for at home,...
Page 39 - ... tis all one; they must attend the weirs, or else they must fast, for the earth affords them no food at all. There is neither herb, root, pulse nor any sort of grain for them to eat, that we saw; nor any sort of bird or beast that they can catch, having no instruments wherewithal to do so.
Page 39 - They have no houses, but lie in the open air, without any covering, the earth being their bed, and the heaven their canopy.
Page 38 - New Holland is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined whether it is an island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America...
Page 39 - Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes...
Page 18 - Terra' begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world.
Page 39 - The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards.