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 44
... Bessie , at Augusta in the same year , notes wistfully that cockatoo feathers which she would make into a broom , would serve as tasty drawing- room decorations , in your land of elegance and ingenu- ity . ' Bessie , too , scribbles a ...
... Bessie , at Augusta in the same year , notes wistfully that cockatoo feathers which she would make into a broom , would serve as tasty drawing- room decorations , in your land of elegance and ingenu- ity . ' Bessie , too , scribbles a ...
Page 45
... Bessie B. to Capel Carter , December 1834. Fanny , on the same sad topic : ' All Polly's ( Mary's ) vanities , dresses , bonnets , etc. , etc. , have met with a watery grave . Ours were burnt . So you see , Tippoo , the destinies decree ...
... Bessie B. to Capel Carter , December 1834. Fanny , on the same sad topic : ' All Polly's ( Mary's ) vanities , dresses , bonnets , etc. , etc. , have met with a watery grave . Ours were burnt . So you see , Tippoo , the destinies decree ...
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... Bessie had just before ridden over from Augusta to help the pioneer party at the Vasse . ' She is indeed an admirable girl and equal to anything . We hear from the boys that she is working wonders , reducing our savage brothers into ...
... Bessie had just before ridden over from Augusta to help the pioneer party at the Vasse . ' She is indeed an admirable girl and equal to anything . We hear from the boys that she is working wonders , reducing our savage brothers into ...
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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 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