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Page 62
... wrote : When we look back , and recollect what a thorough barbarian the average ' Govern- ment man ' was , and how the free immigrant , yielding to the contemptuous assump- tion of the ' old hand ' , too often sank in the scale by ...
... wrote : When we look back , and recollect what a thorough barbarian the average ' Govern- ment man ' was , and how the free immigrant , yielding to the contemptuous assump- tion of the ' old hand ' , too often sank in the scale by ...
Page 80
... wrote : They are generally tall in person , and slender in their limbs , of fair complexion , and small features . They are capable of undergoing more fatigue , and are less exhausted by labour , than native Europeans.17 Only three or ...
... wrote : They are generally tall in person , and slender in their limbs , of fair complexion , and small features . They are capable of undergoing more fatigue , and are less exhausted by labour , than native Europeans.17 Only three or ...
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... wrote that the origin of the feeling ' that the colony was theirs by right , and that the emigrant settlers were interlopers upon the soil ' , could be traced to Macquarie's pro - emancipist policy . No doubt Macquarie's long reign ...
... wrote that the origin of the feeling ' that the colony was theirs by right , and that the emigrant settlers were interlopers upon the soil ' , could be traced to Macquarie's pro - emancipist policy . No doubt Macquarie's long reign ...
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