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Page 87
... China were hundreds of villages that fattened on the yellow diet , for numerically the Chinese dominated the Queensland goldfields in the seventies . From Ballarat to the Palmer was halfway to the Equator , and a Chinese dragon stalked ...
... China were hundreds of villages that fattened on the yellow diet , for numerically the Chinese dominated the Queensland goldfields in the seventies . From Ballarat to the Palmer was halfway to the Equator , and a Chinese dragon stalked ...
Page 88
... Chinese barbers and stores and dens in which Chinese with pigtails lengthened by black braid smoked peacefully the pipe that had not yet been outlawed . On most goldfields the Chinese camps were isolated and in a sense this protected ...
... Chinese barbers and stores and dens in which Chinese with pigtails lengthened by black braid smoked peacefully the pipe that had not yet been outlawed . On most goldfields the Chinese camps were isolated and in a sense this protected ...
Page 95
... China and much of the Chinese , and I say we will one day regret any supremacy we give them . ' From Adelaide the Minister for Education , Dr John Cockburn , denounced the Chinese miners as birds of plunder and passage who dug their ...
... China and much of the Chinese , and I say we will one day regret any supremacy we give them . ' From Adelaide the Minister for Education , Dr John Cockburn , denounced the Chinese miners as birds of plunder and passage who dug their ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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