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It lay rather in their behaviour in the Indonesian archipelago , in all the behaviour
to which they were driven by their greed as well as their vision of themselves as
the intrepid soldiers of Christ and as the vessels for the destruction of a rival ...
It lay rather in their behaviour in the Indonesian archipelago , in all the behaviour
to which they were driven by their greed as well as their vision of themselves as
the intrepid soldiers of Christ and as the vessels for the destruction of a rival ...
Page 22
They were ferocious too in their behaviour to their rivals for the spice trade ; in
1623 , when the Dutch captured the English garrison at Ambon , they applied the
water torture to them till their entrails burst out of their noses , their mouths and ...
They were ferocious too in their behaviour to their rivals for the spice trade ; in
1623 , when the Dutch captured the English garrison at Ambon , they applied the
water torture to them till their entrails burst out of their noses , their mouths and ...
Page 116
Such behaviour quickly changed the white man from a delighted observer of the
picturesque and the quaint into a partisan defending his civilization. After six
months, one of them wrote of the aborigine as a creature deformed by all those ...
Such behaviour quickly changed the white man from a delighted observer of the
picturesque and the quaint into a partisan defending his civilization. After six
months, one of them wrote of the aborigine as a creature deformed by all those ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia: From the earliest times to the age of Macquarie Volume 1 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 8 Apr 2009 |
| ISBN | 052284054X, 9780522840544 |
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