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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... fish in the air , in token of their success in fishing , but he looked so pale , having been seized in the night with a violent attack of sickness after eating cray - fish . I will leave him to the quiet enjoyment of his hammock , and a ...
... fish in the air , in token of their success in fishing , but he looked so pale , having been seized in the night with a violent attack of sickness after eating cray - fish . I will leave him to the quiet enjoyment of his hammock , and a ...
Page 70
... fishing - net , an asset very productive on the shallows of the estuaries that abound along the S.W. and South coasts of Western Australia . It arrived early in 1832 , and relieved the colonists from a tedious , time - swallowing line ...
... fishing - net , an asset very productive on the shallows of the estuaries that abound along the S.W. and South coasts of Western Australia . It arrived early in 1832 , and relieved the colonists from a tedious , time - swallowing line ...
Page 71
... fish I had prepared the week be- fore , to start early for a sixteen miles row , with a heavily- loaded boat consisting of wine in casks , hammocks , a biddy trunk of dried fish , a barrel of salted ditto , a keg of rum , windows for my ...
... fish I had prepared the week be- fore , to start early for a sixteen miles row , with a heavily- loaded boat consisting of wine in casks , hammocks , a biddy trunk of dried fish , a barrel of salted ditto , a keg of rum , windows for my ...
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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