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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... pound , beef 2d . per pound , mutton 24d . per pound , tea is . 6d . , sugar , 3d . , butter 6d . , fowls fit for use ... pounds will go as far as £ 500 in England . I should never think of sending money home , for even bank interest is ...
... pound , beef 2d . per pound , mutton 24d . per pound , tea is . 6d . , sugar , 3d . , butter 6d . , fowls fit for use ... pounds will go as far as £ 500 in England . I should never think of sending money home , for even bank interest is ...
Page 84
... pounds of first butter and 62 pounds of inferior , ' for our own use , ' are * Charles , reporting to John ( at Swan River , on his way to England ) how affairs at the Vasse were going in his absence ( January 1837 ) , mentions a ...
... pounds of first butter and 62 pounds of inferior , ' for our own use , ' are * Charles , reporting to John ( at Swan River , on his way to England ) how affairs at the Vasse were going in his absence ( January 1837 ) , mentions a ...
Page 131
... pounds before her death . Twenty pounds of this came from Queen Adelaide , through the good offices of her godmother , Lady Elizabeth Capel , a Lady - in- waiting at the Court . Under the urgent persuasion of the Bussells she consented ...
... pounds before her death . Twenty pounds of this came from Queen Adelaide , through the good offices of her godmother , Lady Elizabeth Capel , a Lady - in- waiting at the Court . Under the urgent persuasion of the Bussells she consented ...
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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