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... provisions eventually arrived in the colony . She reached Cape Colony by throwing most of her cargo overboard . The Sirius had returned to Port Jackson from the Cape Colony with provisions in May 1789 , after circumnavigating the world ...
... provisions eventually arrived in the colony . She reached Cape Colony by throwing most of her cargo overboard . The Sirius had returned to Port Jackson from the Cape Colony with provisions in May 1789 , after circumnavigating the world ...
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Francis Keble Crowley. provision store . Two years provisions were landed with us in the colony : we had been within two months of that time disembarked , and the public store had been aided only by a small surplus of the provisions ...
Francis Keble Crowley. provision store . Two years provisions were landed with us in the colony : we had been within two months of that time disembarked , and the public store had been aided only by a small surplus of the provisions ...
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... provisions of the labouring convicts should be issued to them daily . This measure being disapproved of by them , they assembled in rather a tumultuous manner before the governor's house at Parramatta on the last day of the month , to ...
... provisions of the labouring convicts should be issued to them daily . This measure being disapproved of by them , they assembled in rather a tumultuous manner before the governor's house at Parramatta on the last day of the month , to ...
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