Cattle Chosen: The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia, 1829 to 1841Situated near Busselton; Chapter on the Bussels relations with the natives 1834; Govt. law at Augusta. |
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... commenced a large farm - house chimney with the stone that came from the garden . Using nothing but red clay for mortar , and rubble stones , we built the walls exceedingly thick , as Mr. Herring told us he had often seen in ...
... commenced a large farm - house chimney with the stone that came from the garden . Using nothing but red clay for mortar , and rubble stones , we built the walls exceedingly thick , as Mr. Herring told us he had often seen in ...
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... commence colonizing ? To those whose views are similar to ours , that is , whose chief object is to bring their land under cultivation , and to stock their farm with the requisite animals , I should say it is undoubtedly too little . In ...
... commence colonizing ? To those whose views are similar to ours , that is , whose chief object is to bring their land under cultivation , and to stock their farm with the requisite animals , I should say it is undoubtedly too little . In ...
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... commenced our labours on so fair a field the better , a spot where more was done by the benignant hand of Nature than years , I may say centuries , could effect in these wooded districts . ' - Mary , a well - known croaker ' , as she ...
... commenced our labours on so fair a field the better , a spot where more was done by the benignant hand of Nature than years , I may say centuries , could effect in these wooded districts . ' - Mary , a well - known croaker ' , as she ...
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... commenced disembarking from the " Ellen . " We had landed all our goods by nine o'clock ... We had not landed long before we observed a native coming towards us . We began rolling things clear of high water . The boat's crew and Captain ...
... commenced disembarking from the " Ellen . " We had landed all our goods by nine o'clock ... We had not landed long before we observed a native coming towards us . We began rolling things clear of high water . The boat's crew and Captain ...
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... commenced a similar expedition in quest of the government bull and cow , missing some months . Saturday 22nd . John and Vernon returned with the calf . No Yulika . Tuesday 25th . Intelligence that the bull and heifer have been dis ...
... commenced a similar expedition in quest of the government bull and cow , missing some months . Saturday 22nd . John and Vernon returned with the calf . No Yulika . Tuesday 25th . Intelligence that the bull and heifer have been dis ...
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Page 140 - Their scent, and rustle down their perfumed showers Of bloom on the bent grass where I am laid, And bower me from the August sun with shade*; And the eye travels down to Oxford's towers. And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book — Come, let me read the oft-read tale again ! The story of the Oxford scholar poor, Of pregnant parts...
Page 41 - Yes, this is easy; but to help the young soul, add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not easy, that is the work of divine men.
Page 107 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Page 50 - The sound of rushing waters proclaimed a rapid near. Walking therefore a short distance up the stream we found what we sought, a passage over. ' Here was a spot that the creative fancy of a Greek would have peopled with Dryad and Naiad and all the beautiful phantoms and wild imagery of his sylvan mythology. Wide waving lawns were sloping down to the water's edge. Trees thick and entangled were stooping over the banks. One in the centre of the rapids had taken root...
Page 50 - ... in colour ; grass was plentiful, and the clover I have noted above, with its bright scarlet and yellow flower, the daisy, buttercup, and a purple marygold. The whole effect reminded me of that confusion of rich tints that are produced in the Indian loam, and as I looked upon it, I could not feel but inclined to believe that such a scene as this must have presented to the imagination of the Hindoo, the high colouring of his fabric, and the prototype of the gaudy chintz. Half a mile brought us...
Page 33 - Off I went to tear down the books. Ally and Len pulled out the piano, tables and chairs. Emma got everything out of the kitchen. I ran to look after my dear crockery. Len cut down your cot. I was endowed with some unnatural strength, took your mattress, my own and our bedding, and rushed out of the room.
Page 51 - ... over which the waters tumbled ; its bended trunks and tortuous roots seemed to indicate that it had struggled more than once to gain the perpendicular form, from which it had been thrust by the rude torrents, which at certain periods evidently pour down this obstruction to the free flow of the river. About a hundred or two hundred yards on the other side, we obtained a sight of the sea bearing NW The country here was so clear that a farmer could hardly grudge the fine spreading trees of the red...
Page 31 - Instead of anyone or anything for the Swan, I should say selectness and refinement are more prevalent than in England. Yet no one scruples to assist in the duties of the
Page 122 - Bay a distance of fourteen miles. I did the best for them that I could in the way of meals and shakesdown, but my arrangements gave me more trips up the ladder to our upper storey than I quite liked. When they took their leave of me next morning I certainly thought that their backs were cordial. The Frenchman, I am sure, expected that 1 should have required his attendance before morning... " Just two years after settling at Candyup the Taylors' quiet existence was shattered.
Page 122 - Cheyne, Mr Morley, Mr Drake, and the doctor of a French whaler. They were all dreadfully tired and famished with hunger, having been lost in the bush since daylight, coming from Two People Bay, a distance of 14 miles.