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 28
... whaler , and another to the island of St. Paul's . Of the former , Frances bids her dearest mother , fancy your girls climbing over the gangway , and descending , somehow or other , into a little cockleshell of a boat , upon the bosom ...
... whaler , and another to the island of St. Paul's . Of the former , Frances bids her dearest mother , fancy your girls climbing over the gangway , and descending , somehow or other , into a little cockleshell of a boat , upon the bosom ...
Page 87
... whalers brought ashore tobacco with which to buy fruit or other dainties . But rum and wine were brought in plenty , too , so that on 17th September 1840 Miss Fanny notes a court of in- quiry held in consequence of the great insobriety ...
... whalers brought ashore tobacco with which to buy fruit or other dainties . But rum and wine were brought in plenty , too , so that on 17th September 1840 Miss Fanny notes a court of in- quiry held in consequence of the great insobriety ...
Page 176
... whaling vessel at the same time lying in the port , on being officially informed that the peace had been broken in a neighbouring district , and finding that the offending tribe had taken refuge in his neighbourhood , refused to accept ...
... whaling vessel at the same time lying in the port , on being officially informed that the peace had been broken in a neighbouring district , and finding that the offending tribe had taken refuge in his neighbourhood , refused to accept ...
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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