The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page 90
... practice of religion was an object of ridicule and part of the punishment.'34 There is no reason to suppose that Kingsley was exaggerating much when he made one of his characters in Geoffry Hamlyn , a well - disposed old hand working on ...
... practice of religion was an object of ridicule and part of the punishment.'34 There is no reason to suppose that Kingsley was exaggerating much when he made one of his characters in Geoffry Hamlyn , a well - disposed old hand working on ...
Page 149
... practice to be followed at execu- tions , but it seems likely that in fact some such unofficial instruc- tions were given . For example , the collective hanging of the seven murderers of Aborigines in the notorious Myall Creek massacre ...
... practice to be followed at execu- tions , but it seems likely that in fact some such unofficial instruc- tions were given . For example , the collective hanging of the seven murderers of Aborigines in the notorious Myall Creek massacre ...
Page 160
... practice arose : At by far the greater proportion of sheep stations in the colony the practice of feloniously killing the owner's sheep goes on to a greater or less extent : and plenty of owners know it and wink at it ; others do not ...
... practice arose : At by far the greater proportion of sheep stations in the colony the practice of feloniously killing the owner's sheep goes on to a greater or less extent : and plenty of owners know it and wink at it ; others do not ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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