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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Page 69
... COLONISTS of a ' new ' country must of necessity recapitulate , in so far as they provide for themselves , the stages by which social men ' have reached their latter- day skill in getting a living . At first they hunt and fish like the ...
... COLONISTS of a ' new ' country must of necessity recapitulate , in so far as they provide for themselves , the stages by which social men ' have reached their latter- day skill in getting a living . At first they hunt and fish like the ...
Page 70
... colonists from a tedious , time - swallowing line - fishing which had paralysed progress on many a ' location ' during the previous months . In the following autumn the supply - ship having failed them , it was the means of saving the ...
... colonists from a tedious , time - swallowing line - fishing which had paralysed progress on many a ' location ' during the previous months . In the following autumn the supply - ship having failed them , it was the means of saving the ...
Page 109
... colonist , was the only motive that would inhibit the age - long habits of the hunter . There could be no compromise . Hunter or farmer must hold the land . If the hunter , the colonist must go . If the farmer , he could provide , out ...
... colonist , was the only motive that would inhibit the age - long habits of the hunter . There could be no compromise . Hunter or farmer must hold the land . If the hunter , the colonist must go . If the farmer , he could provide , out ...
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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