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By noon grass fires, started in the stubble, dry as tinder after the long hot summer,
sent tongues of flame and red-hot balls of burning grass floating over the town.
Down at Portland, where the thermometer registered 112° by noon, particles of ...
By noon grass fires, started in the stubble, dry as tinder after the long hot summer,
sent tongues of flame and red-hot balls of burning grass floating over the town.
Down at Portland, where the thermometer registered 112° by noon, particles of ...
Page 14
Some even said that diggers should collect fire-arms so that they could resist that
effeminate fop who wore the hat with the ridiculous white feathers. On the night of
26 August a huge fire lit up the faces of the forty or fifty diggers who responded ...
Some even said that diggers should collect fire-arms so that they could resist that
effeminate fop who wore the hat with the ridiculous white feathers. On the night of
26 August a huge fire lit up the faces of the forty or fifty diggers who responded ...
Page 133
... his wife and family with violence from their tent and destroyed the same and
other property with fire. Tom Me, What Young and Que You, natives of Canton,
respectfully showed that they had been knocked down, their gold forcibly taken
from ...
... his wife and family with violence from their tent and destroyed the same and
other property with fire. Tom Me, What Young and Que You, natives of Canton,
respectfully showed that they had been knocked down, their gold forcibly taken
from ...
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Contents
ONESTEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT To BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Henry Parkes and Henry Lawson frontispiece | 64 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888 Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 4 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2011 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › Australia History / Australia & New Zealand |
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