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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... Fremantle and Perth . Stirling advised the Bussells and Captain Molloy to make a fresh start , a sub - colony two hundred miles south , in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin . Thither , in May 1830 , with three families , some labourers and a ...
... Fremantle and Perth . Stirling advised the Bussells and Captain Molloy to make a fresh start , a sub - colony two hundred miles south , in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin . Thither , in May 1830 , with three families , some labourers and a ...
Page 79
... Fremantle in July 1835 , as a parting gift before his departure for England , two kangaroo dogs , Posey and Blythe II , he sent also two rabbits . If you take care of them they afford you a constant supply of fresh meat . ' Evidently ...
... Fremantle in July 1835 , as a parting gift before his departure for England , two kangaroo dogs , Posey and Blythe II , he sent also two rabbits . If you take care of them they afford you a constant supply of fresh meat . ' Evidently ...
Page 134
... Fremantle , John hired a half - decked cargo boat to take his wife , her children , a young man Lawson , seeking colonial experience , and their goods and chattels to the Vasse . The hire of the boat - the Victoria ' -was £ 60. * A gale ...
... Fremantle , John hired a half - decked cargo boat to take his wife , her children , a young man Lawson , seeking colonial experience , and their goods and chattels to the Vasse . The hire of the boat - the Victoria ' -was £ 60. * A gale ...
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