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... Bligh spent that day neither reflecting on how overweening pride and arrogance could bring even the giants of this world . to destruction , nor , as did other eye witnesses , in moralizing on the treachery of natives to representatives ...
... Bligh spent that day neither reflecting on how overweening pride and arrogance could bring even the giants of this world . to destruction , nor , as did other eye witnesses , in moralizing on the treachery of natives to representatives ...
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... Bligh's mind was still consumed with his feud with Short , a dispute which he pursued with such tedious and petty ardour that he attempted to prevent Short landing from the Porpoise.15 On 14 August , Richard Atkins administered to him ...
... Bligh's mind was still consumed with his feud with Short , a dispute which he pursued with such tedious and petty ardour that he attempted to prevent Short landing from the Porpoise.15 On 14 August , Richard Atkins administered to him ...
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... Bligh as Captain - General and Governor - in - Chief of the colony of New South Wales . The triumph was short lived . What Bligh craved was display , grandeur and recognition . When he moved into Government House on 8 April , he found ...
... Bligh as Captain - General and Governor - in - Chief of the colony of New South Wales . The triumph was short lived . What Bligh craved was display , grandeur and recognition . When he moved into Government House on 8 April , he found ...
Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 23 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY | 61 |
THE BEGINNING OF SYDNEY COVE | 73 |
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