...though three in number, could not undertake the household. Free men find so many means of making mooey here, that they will not take service, and so the...demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every IMMUC were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage our cook ha» committed murder,...

...colonies, may be estimated by the following extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemen's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money...every house were made public, you would shudder; even incur small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!"...

...colonies, may be estimated by the following extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemeu's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money...this nature ; and if the histories of every house wefe made public, you would shudder; even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman...

...picture of the moral contagion to which the family of a rightminded emigrant might be subjected there. " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that...called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nation ; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder ; even in our small...

...picture of the moral contagion to which the family of a rightminded emigrant might be subjected there. " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that...called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nation ; and if the histories of every house were CHAPTEE IV. THE PIONEER SETTLERS. Arrival of Pioneer...

...in getting freemen to work at the rates of pay then current in that island. These are his words : " Freemen find so many ways of making money here that they will not take service, and so the convicts—or, as they are delicately called, the prisoners—supply all demands of this nature, and...