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Page 183
of any convict surplus , 98 but their motive for this was the moral improvement of the convicts and not any concern for the material well - being of the other convict settlements . For by then Sydney opinion was beginning to be ...
of any convict surplus , 98 but their motive for this was the moral improvement of the convicts and not any concern for the material well - being of the other convict settlements . For by then Sydney opinion was beginning to be ...
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King took fright , and despatched the Cumberland to King Island in Bass Strait from where it was to sail to Port Phillip and Cape Otway to report on possible places for a settlement . In the meantime , Baudin disclaimed any intention of ...
King took fright , and despatched the Cumberland to King Island in Bass Strait from where it was to sail to Port Phillip and Cape Otway to report on possible places for a settlement . In the meantime , Baudin disclaimed any intention of ...
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All that time food supplies continued to be so short that settlers , officers , soldiers and convicts lived off kangaroo and emu meat till well on into 1806.33 In the meantime , observers were speculating on the settlement's future ...
All that time food supplies continued to be so short that settlers , officers , soldiers and convicts lived off kangaroo and emu meat till well on into 1806.33 In the meantime , observers were speculating on the settlement's future ...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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