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 76
... Flour imported from the Cape is many times less expensive than that raised in the colony , besides saving the dreadful fatigue of spade labour . ' How the colonists would have laughed at a prediction that , within a century , the ...
... Flour imported from the Cape is many times less expensive than that raised in the colony , besides saving the dreadful fatigue of spade labour . ' How the colonists would have laughed at a prediction that , within a century , the ...
Page 83
... Flour . ( Monday 19th . The soldiers had 52 lbs . of veal , and struck work on hearing of the raised price of flour , unless they had 3s . a day : they were therefore dis- missed . ' Seemingly the soldiers , being in receipt of military ...
... Flour . ( Monday 19th . The soldiers had 52 lbs . of veal , and struck work on hearing of the raised price of flour , unless they had 3s . a day : they were therefore dis- missed . ' Seemingly the soldiers , being in receipt of military ...
Page 98
... flour returned with it , and put it at a short distance , making signs that he would leave the flour if they would give up the child . They were obliged to consent to this agreement from want of members . John , Lenox and Charles armed ...
... flour returned with it , and put it at a short distance , making signs that he would leave the flour if they would give up the child . They were obliged to consent to this agreement from want of members . John , Lenox and Charles armed ...
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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