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... Supply on 5 April 1790 , famine threatened the colony . Phillip then sent the Supply to Batavia and the whole settlement was dependent on its return . It returned in October , having been the first vessel to circumnavigate New Holland ...
... Supply on 5 April 1790 , famine threatened the colony . Phillip then sent the Supply to Batavia and the whole settlement was dependent on its return . It returned in October , having been the first vessel to circumnavigate New Holland ...
Page 110
... supply of salted provisions sent from London . In the middle of 1802 the meat ration from the government store was reduced drastically , and only the fortuitous arrival of an American merchant ship , the General Boyd , with a cargo of ...
... supply of salted provisions sent from London . In the middle of 1802 the meat ration from the government store was reduced drastically , and only the fortuitous arrival of an American merchant ship , the General Boyd , with a cargo of ...
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... supply , to satisfy the present scale of demand in the British market , that may be contemplated ; but it is fairly to be asumed , that the nature of the market for this commodity , extensive as it now is , affords the prospect of great ...
... supply , to satisfy the present scale of demand in the British market , that may be contemplated ; but it is fairly to be asumed , that the nature of the market for this commodity , extensive as it now is , affords the prospect of great ...
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