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 19
... garden was getting on under the superin- tendence of Mr. Herring , an old man Charles and I fell in with on the voyage from London to Portsmouth , we turned our thoughts towards building a house . The first thing we did was to get the ...
... garden was getting on under the superin- tendence of Mr. Herring , an old man Charles and I fell in with on the voyage from London to Portsmouth , we turned our thoughts towards building a house . The first thing we did was to get the ...
Page 22
... garden smiled or had ever smiled upon the scene . An almost impenetrable undergrowth supplied the place of esculent herbage , and trees , which had been blown over by the storm or pros- trated by the slower , though not less sure , work ...
... garden smiled or had ever smiled upon the scene . An almost impenetrable undergrowth supplied the place of esculent herbage , and trees , which had been blown over by the storm or pros- trated by the slower , though not less sure , work ...
Page 65
... garden , very comfortably fitted up as a bedroom for him- self and Vernon , and ornamented with shelves containing his books , would almost make you in love with his little hermitage . By following the garden fence you approach the ...
... garden , very comfortably fitted up as a bedroom for him- self and Vernon , and ornamented with shelves containing his books , would almost make you in love with his little hermitage . By following the garden fence you approach the ...
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