 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...at anchor together there, and that the communication was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Land by vessels from Launceston. Messrs Henty were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could bring them over, and the numerous whalers touching or fishing there were found to be good customers... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...at anchor together there, and that the communication was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Laud by vessels from Launceston . Messrs Henty were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could bring them over, and the numerous whalers touching or fishing there were found to be good customers... | |
 | Thomas McCombie - Australia - 1858 - 350 pages
...lay at anchor together in that Bay, and that a communication was .regularly kept up with Van Dicmen's Land by means of vessels from Launceston. Messrs....whatever else could be spared from the establishment. Having witnessed the excitement of a ' whale hunt ' from the verandah of Messrs. Henty's house, and... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 782 pages
...kept up with Van Diemen's Land by means of vessels from Launceston. 'Messrs. Henty were importingsheep and cattle as fast as vessels could be found to bring...whatever else could be spared from the establishment Having witnessed tire excitement of a "whale hunt" from the verandah of Messrs. Henty's house, and... | |
 | Richmond Henty - Aboriginal Australians - 1886 - 276 pages
...was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) by means of vessels from Launceston. "The Messrs. Henty were importing sheep and cattle as fast...for farm produce, and whatever else could be spared by the establishment. . . . Major Mitchell informed the Messrs. Henty of the splendid country he had... | |
 | Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan, Thomas T. Ewing - Australasia - 1903 - 502 pages
...engaged in the whaling industry, and that upwards of 700 tons of oil had been shipped there that season. Messrs. Henty were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could bring them over." On the return journey Mitchell made a detour to the east, discovering more valuable... | |
 | Stephen Henry Roberts - Agricultural colonies - 1924 - 528 pages
...Land supported this proposition,4 the Hentys proceeded with their occupation and, by August, 1835, "were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could be found to bring them over."6 Mitchell's report of the interior (1835) spurred them to still further efforts and the Wannon... | |
 | Karl Reginald Cramp - Australia - 1927 - 276 pages
...vessels lay at anchor together there, and that the communication was kept up with Van Diemen's Land by vessels from Launceston. Messrs. Henty were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could bring them over, and the numerous whalers touching at, or fishing there, were found to be good customers... | |
 | Manning Clark - History - 1993 - 620 pages
...he found to his surprise that there were Englishmen living there. The Henty brothers told him they were importing sheep and cattle as fast as vessels could be found to bring them over from Launceston. He told them of the beauty of the country at the junction of the Wannon and the Glenelg.... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...potatoes and turnips produced there surpassed in magnitude and quality any I had ever seen elsewhere. I learnt that the bay was much resorted to by vessels...whatever else could be spared from the establishment... August 30 — I was accommodated with a small supply of flour by Messrs Henty, who having been themselves... | |
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... tons of oil had been shipped that season. I was likewise informed that only a few days before my arrival five vessels lay at anchor together in that bay, and that a communication was regularly kept up with Van Diemen's Land by means of vessels from... 