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... East . Ever since the loss of Java to the Dutch in the treaty that ended the Napoleonic Wars the Eastern trade lobby in London had been pressing gov- ernment to explore how to recapture the rich trade of the Spice Islands . In 1817 the ...
... East . Ever since the loss of Java to the Dutch in the treaty that ended the Napoleonic Wars the Eastern trade lobby in London had been pressing gov- ernment to explore how to recapture the rich trade of the Spice Islands . In 1817 the ...
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... east of Mount Abrupt ( east of the present city of Hamilton ) he travelled over a country quite open , slightly undulating and well covered with grass . Here at long last in New Holland he had found a land favourable for colonization ...
... east of Mount Abrupt ( east of the present city of Hamilton ) he travelled over a country quite open , slightly undulating and well covered with grass . Here at long last in New Holland he had found a land favourable for colonization ...
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... east of Western Port was well under way.2 parts 20 By then yet another white man's activity was bedevilling the relations with the aborigines . For the aborigines , killing a kangaroo was one way of obtain- ing food ; for the white man ...
... east of Western Port was well under way.2 parts 20 By then yet another white man's activity was bedevilling the relations with the aborigines . For the aborigines , killing a kangaroo was one way of obtain- ing food ; for the white man ...
Contents
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 73 |
OVERSTRAITERS OVERLANDERS AND OTHERS DESCEND | 84 |
ENGLANDS ECHO IN THE ANTIPODES | 113 |
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