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... diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a store , huts and a makeshift jetty , and was visited by ...
... diggers left their bush camps , shouldered their swags and rushed to Strahan , the new port that lay on a treeless plain by the shores of Macquarie Harbour . The settlement had a store , huts and a makeshift jetty , and was visited by ...
Page 27
... diggers would have earned more money driving a waggon or mining for wages at Beaconsfield or Waratah : but they were optimists , sure that they would " strike it rich " at last . But even optimists cannot live on storekeeper's credit ...
... diggers would have earned more money driving a waggon or mining for wages at Beaconsfield or Waratah : but they were optimists , sure that they would " strike it rich " at last . But even optimists cannot live on storekeeper's credit ...
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... diggers in the mountains . Diggers often re- warded his trust with a small share in their mine , and Henry must have been laden with interests in leases such as the Iron Blow . Through the bitter winter of 1884 the prospectors worked on ...
... diggers in the mountains . Diggers often re- warded his trust with a small share in their mine , and Henry must have been laden with interests in leases such as the Iron Blow . Through the bitter winter of 1884 the prospectors worked on ...
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