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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... nearly two years to the observation of them in their native wilds , and has succeeded in gaining a rich harvest of knowledge , the fruit of personal experience , together with a great num- ber of new and highly interesting species ...
... nearly two years to the observation of them in their native wilds , and has succeeded in gaining a rich harvest of knowledge , the fruit of personal experience , together with a great num- ber of new and highly interesting species ...
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... nearly worn away ere I closed my eyes.- The rich flats we were on to - day have apparently at no distant period formed part of the head of the estuary . April 5 .-- Such a heavy dew had fallen during the night , that when I got up in ...
... nearly worn away ere I closed my eyes.- The rich flats we were on to - day have apparently at no distant period formed part of the head of the estuary . April 5 .-- Such a heavy dew had fallen during the night , that when I got up in ...
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... - he had hitherto been nearly always in the rear of the party without lagging , but I thought two of the men in a much weaker state than he was . CHAPTER II . FROM THE HUTT RIVER TO WATER PEAK 22 INDISPOSITION OF MR . SMITH .
... - he had hitherto been nearly always in the rear of the party without lagging , but I thought two of the men in a much weaker state than he was . CHAPTER II . FROM THE HUTT RIVER TO WATER PEAK 22 INDISPOSITION OF MR . SMITH .
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... nearly every five minutes . After walking one mile , we fortunately came to a very deep valley , having such steep limestone cliffs on each side , that it assumed quite the charac- ter of a ravine : it was about a mile wide , and in it ...
... nearly every five minutes . After walking one mile , we fortunately came to a very deep valley , having such steep limestone cliffs on each side , that it assumed quite the charac- ter of a ravine : it was about a mile wide , and in it ...
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... nearly a mile in width , running almost east and west as far as the eye could see in each direction . I therefore gave a bold plunge into the bushes , followed by the native , and slowly by the other men , who kept alternately groaning ...
... nearly a mile in width , running almost east and west as far as the eye could see in each direction . I therefore gave a bold plunge into the bushes , followed by the native , and slowly by the other men , who kept alternately groaning ...
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