Cattle Chosen: The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia, 1829 to 1841First published London, Oxford University Press, 1926, q.v. for annotation. |
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... boys , an endowment policy of £ 500 , with the Pelican Insurance Office , payable at the age of twenty - one . But his stipend ceased with his death , and the family's only property was a field at Kingsford , leased for eight pounds a ...
... boys , an endowment policy of £ 500 , with the Pelican Insurance Office , payable at the age of twenty - one . But his stipend ceased with his death , and the family's only property was a field at Kingsford , leased for eight pounds a ...
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... boys that she is working wonders , reducing our savage brothers into some kind of order . I wish we could all have arrived there together . I should have liked to have borne the heat and burden of the day - selfishly perhaps , for I ...
... boys that she is working wonders , reducing our savage brothers into some kind of order . I wish we could all have arrived there together . I should have liked to have borne the heat and burden of the day - selfishly perhaps , for I ...
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... boys , I have done what you wished . Hang it ! I can't leave you here , it quite slews a fellow round . " Lennox least literate of the family , tells in sailor fashion , the toil of the first days : 66 · At our first landing we had ...
... boys , I have done what you wished . Hang it ! I can't leave you here , it quite slews a fellow round . " Lennox least literate of the family , tells in sailor fashion , the toil of the first days : 66 · At our first landing we had ...
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aboriginal Adelphi arrived Augusta Barsey beautiful Bessie Bessie's Blackwood Blackwood River boat boys breakfast brothers brought Bussell family Bussell's Busselton butter Cape Leeuwin Capel Carter Captain Molloy Captain Toby Cattle Chosen Chapmans Charles Bussell Charlotte colonists colony commenced cows Dawson dear diary dinner dogs Ellen England Fanny Bussell Fanny's farm fear fire fish flour forest Fremantle garden Gaywal Geographe Bay Government Governor Stirling Green hope horse J. G. Bussell John Bussell John Garrett Bussell John's kangaroo King George's Sound labour land Larkham Layman Lenox Leschenault letter living look Mamma Mary McDermott miles Miss morning natives night party Pearce Perth Pinjarra pork pounds savage servant settlement settlers Shann sheep ship soldiers spear Sunday Swan River things timber trees Turner Vasse Vasse River Vernon and Alfred Western Australia William Marchant Yulika