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Page 67
By the labour of their hands the men tilled the soil , milked cows , chopped wood and carried water . Women and children , too , laboured with their hands for the common good , for there was about the settlement the air of a community ...
By the labour of their hands the men tilled the soil , milked cows , chopped wood and carried water . Women and children , too , laboured with their hands for the common good , for there was about the settlement the air of a community ...
Page 101
Convinced of the general worthlessness of the emancipated convicts he decided to try some immigrant Highlanders , but by the middle of 1839 he was longing for some ' old hands ' to rescue him from the ineptitude of ' new chums ' ...
Convinced of the general worthlessness of the emancipated convicts he decided to try some immigrant Highlanders , but by the middle of 1839 he was longing for some ' old hands ' to rescue him from the ineptitude of ' new chums ' ...
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For nothing he or his successor Henry Dumaresq tried changed the behaviour of the convicts and the old hands who worked on the estates of the company . Nor was Dumaresq's successor , Phillip Parker King , who received his appointment as ...
For nothing he or his successor Henry Dumaresq tried changed the behaviour of the convicts and the old hands who worked on the estates of the company . Nor was Dumaresq's successor , Phillip Parker King , who received his appointment as ...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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