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Page 186
... bush as though inviting M. Marion to light it . M. Marion , thinking that if he lit it he would show his peaceful intentions , set alight to the bush , only to find such an act was for the aborigine a declaration of war . When the ...
... bush as though inviting M. Marion to light it . M. Marion , thinking that if he lit it he would show his peaceful intentions , set alight to the bush , only to find such an act was for the aborigine a declaration of war . When the ...
Page 297
... bush lore , but lacked refinement and book learning had a long history . He also accepted the offer of Allan Cunningham , a botanist who had arrived in the Surry on 20 December 1816 , to join other persons of inferior ranks in various ...
... bush lore , but lacked refinement and book learning had a long history . He also accepted the offer of Allan Cunningham , a botanist who had arrived in the Surry on 20 December 1816 , to join other persons of inferior ranks in various ...
Page 346
... bush where he remained , despite all the tender attempts of his protector , Mr Squire , to rescue him from such wretchedness . As the Sydney Gazette commented rather wistfully , ancestral habits were too indelibly engendered ever to be ...
... bush where he remained , despite all the tender attempts of his protector , Mr Squire , to rescue him from such wretchedness . As the Sydney Gazette commented rather wistfully , ancestral habits were too indelibly engendered ever to be ...
Contents
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 41 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY | 61 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 73 |
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