A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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Page 55
... drunken men and drunken women muttered that one day they would take a terrible revenge against those bastards , the ' traps ' , for coming between them and their fun.22 Itinerant musicians , acrobats and strolling players moved from ...
... drunken men and drunken women muttered that one day they would take a terrible revenge against those bastards , the ' traps ' , for coming between them and their fun.22 Itinerant musicians , acrobats and strolling players moved from ...
Page 69
... drunken revellers ransacked the ashes in search of bottles of rum and other ardent spirits , while Westerby lay on his back in drunken oblivion . The great roar of the mob rolled over to the camp as a herald of a future day of reckoning ...
... drunken revellers ransacked the ashes in search of bottles of rum and other ardent spirits , while Westerby lay on his back in drunken oblivion . The great roar of the mob rolled over to the camp as a herald of a future day of reckoning ...
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... drunken blaspheming diggers , rushing from tap - house to tap- house , were flinging money around like dust , and running riot in the streets , sometimes accompanied by bedizened Jezebels who fleeced them of their money and anything ...
... drunken blaspheming diggers , rushing from tap - house to tap- house , were flinging money around like dust , and running riot in the streets , sometimes accompanied by bedizened Jezebels who fleeced them of their money and anything ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED 533 | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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