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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... brown colour , and had such a sour fer- mented taste , that nothing but absolute necessity could induce any one to eat it . The party , however , were in high spirits ; they talked of a walk of three VOL . II . C hundred miles in a ...
... brown colour , and had such a sour fer- mented taste , that nothing but absolute necessity could induce any one to eat it . The party , however , were in high spirits ; they talked of a walk of three VOL . II . C hundred miles in a ...
Page 113
... brown felt hat , and haversack , containing his journal , shoes , tinder , steel , gun - screw , a few small canvass bags , which he had used for carrying shell - fish , and a small bag , with thread , needles , and buttons . Life ...
... brown felt hat , and haversack , containing his journal , shoes , tinder , steel , gun - screw , a few small canvass bags , which he had used for carrying shell - fish , and a small bag , with thread , needles , and buttons . Life ...
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... brown colour , with a jet black spot in the centre . ( See vol . i . page 51 , Fig . 1. ) We also caught an animal of a precisely similar form and colour with this , but which was not provided with a shell . The other specimens were * 1 ...
... brown colour , with a jet black spot in the centre . ( See vol . i . page 51 , Fig . 1. ) We also caught an animal of a precisely similar form and colour with this , but which was not provided with a shell . The other specimens were * 1 ...
Page 148
... brown spots on it , unrolled itself like a wood - louse , and then swam nimbly about . They all turned as white as eggs soon after they were put into spirits . We caught also several species of an animal with two tentaculæ , which had ...
... brown spots on it , unrolled itself like a wood - louse , and then swam nimbly about . They all turned as white as eggs soon after they were put into spirits . We caught also several species of an animal with two tentaculæ , which had ...
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... brown colour ; these are apparently depo- sited from the interior white tentaculæ , and cannot be estimated , they are so numerous . We also caught a minute fish , 0.6 in . in length ; - a minute species of nautilus , blue , marked with ...
... brown colour ; these are apparently depo- sited from the interior white tentaculæ , and cannot be estimated , they are so numerous . We also caught a minute fish , 0.6 in . in length ; - a minute species of nautilus , blue , marked with ...
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