Cattle Chosen: The Story of the First Group Settlement in Western Australia, 1829 to 1841

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Oxford University Press, 1926 - Australia - 186 pages
Situated near Busselton; Chapter on the Bussels relations with the natives 1834; Govt. law at Augusta.
 

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Page 140 - Their scent, and rustle down their perfumed showers Of bloom on the bent grass where I am laid, And bower me from the August sun with shade*; And the eye travels down to Oxford's towers. And near me on the grass lies Glanvil's book — Come, let me read the oft-read tale again ! The story of the Oxford scholar poor, Of pregnant parts...
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Page 50 - The sound of rushing waters proclaimed a rapid near. Walking therefore a short distance up the stream we found what we sought, a passage over. ' Here was a spot that the creative fancy of a Greek would have peopled with Dryad and Naiad and all the beautiful phantoms and wild imagery of his sylvan mythology. Wide waving lawns were sloping down to the water's edge. Trees thick and entangled were stooping over the banks. One in the centre of the rapids had taken root...
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Page 33 - Off I went to tear down the books. Ally and Len pulled out the piano, tables and chairs. Emma got everything out of the kitchen. I ran to look after my dear crockery. Len cut down your cot. I was endowed with some unnatural strength, took your mattress, my own and our bedding, and rushed out of the room.
Page 51 - ... over which the waters tumbled ; its bended trunks and tortuous roots seemed to indicate that it had struggled more than once to gain the perpendicular form, from which it had been thrust by the rude torrents, which at certain periods evidently pour down this obstruction to the free flow of the river. About a hundred or two hundred yards on the other side, we obtained a sight of the sea bearing NW The country here was so clear that a farmer could hardly grudge the fine spreading trees of the red...
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Page 122 - Bay a distance of fourteen miles. I did the best for them that I could in the way of meals and shakesdown, but my arrangements gave me more trips up the ladder to our upper storey than I quite liked. When they took their leave of me next morning I certainly thought that their backs were cordial. The Frenchman, I am sure, expected that 1 should have required his attendance before morning... " Just two years after settling at Candyup the Taylors' quiet existence was shattered.
Page 122 - Cheyne, Mr Morley, Mr Drake, and the doctor of a French whaler. They were all dreadfully tired and famished with hunger, having been lost in the bush since daylight, coming from Two People Bay, a distance of 14 miles.

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