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 80
... butter and a half - ton of potatoes . The butter sold at once for half a crown a pound , and brought a firm offer of 2s . a pound for as much as they could send . The potatoes sold at £ 12 a ton . Small matters ? But they set the prices ...
... butter and a half - ton of potatoes . The butter sold at once for half a crown a pound , and brought a firm offer of 2s . a pound for as much as they could send . The potatoes sold at £ 12 a ton . Small matters ? But they set the prices ...
Page 81
... butter , Joe 1⁄2 lb. butter , Dawson 2 lbs . , by Spicer . Mr. Green 1 gallons Beer . Mr. Greengal . Beer . ' Tuesday , the 21st , also figures as ' Edith's birthday ' , rather oddly . ' Vernon and Brown ploughing and harrow- ing . John ...
... butter , Joe 1⁄2 lb. butter , Dawson 2 lbs . , by Spicer . Mr. Green 1 gallons Beer . Mr. Greengal . Beer . ' Tuesday , the 21st , also figures as ' Edith's birthday ' , rather oddly . ' Vernon and Brown ploughing and harrow- ing . John ...
Page 84
... butter and potatoes were regularly sent by schooner to the Swan River . Cheese was soon added . Some 648 pounds of first butter and 62 pounds of inferior , ' for our own use , ' are * Charles , reporting to John ( at Swan River , on his ...
... butter and potatoes were regularly sent by schooner to the Swan River . Cheese was soon added . Some 648 pounds of first butter and 62 pounds of inferior , ' for our own use , ' are * Charles , reporting to John ( at Swan River , on his ...
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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