Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38 and 39: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important and Feritle Districts : with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, Volume 2Boone, 1841 - 482 pages |
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Page 39
... river , which I named the Irwin , after my friend Major Irwin , the Commandant at Swan River ; following this for half a mile , we found a native well , dug to a consi- derable depth in the bed , but all our scraping here was vain ...
... river , which I named the Irwin , after my friend Major Irwin , the Commandant at Swan River ; following this for half a mile , we found a native well , dug to a consi- derable depth in the bed , but all our scraping here was vain ...
Page 70
... Swan River , and it had made a great impression on the natives . Whither does that lone ship wander , My young son I shall never see again . Whither does that lone ship wander . The night wore heavily on ; sleepless sufferers were ...
... Swan River , and it had made a great impression on the natives . Whither does that lone ship wander , My young son I shall never see again . Whither does that lone ship wander . The night wore heavily on ; sleepless sufferers were ...
Page 114
... Swan River . Even Warrup , notwithstanding the general apathy of the native character , wept like a child over the untimely fate of this young man , from whom he had formerly received kind- ness . Smoothing over his solitary bed , and ...
... Swan River . Even Warrup , notwithstanding the general apathy of the native character , wept like a child over the untimely fate of this young man , from whom he had formerly received kind- ness . Smoothing over his solitary bed , and ...
Page 116
... Swan River , having for its longitudinal limits the parallel of 24 ° and that of 32 ° s . lat . , and the expedition ... RIVERS DISCOVERED . The larger rivers I have named ,
... Swan River , having for its longitudinal limits the parallel of 24 ° and that of 32 ° s . lat . , and the expedition ... RIVERS DISCOVERED . The larger rivers I have named ,
Page 128
... Swan River language that we were friends , and would give them bread . I flung a piece of biscuit on the beach , and some waded into the water and threw in their fur belts and other ornaments , when we commenced a system of barter ...
... Swan River language that we were friends , and would give them bread . I flung a piece of biscuit on the beach , and some waded into the water and threw in their fur belts and other ornaments , when we commenced a system of barter ...
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