Glimpses of Life in VictoriaSmallpox epidemic of 1798; physical description; food sources; fighting; corroboree; after death beliefs; Qld Aborigines; cannibalism. |
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Page 103 - Many timid persons flying from the fires of Black Thursday, and terrified with the blackness and darkness around, believed that the end of all things was at hand, and that the Great Day of Wrath was come.
Page 386 - To relieve the aged, infirm, disabled, or destitute, of all creeds and nations, and to administer to them the comforts of religion ; (1.) By receiving and maintaining in a suitable building such as may be most benefited by being inmates of the asylum...
Page 396 - ... the Benevolent Asylum, the lunatics at the Yarra Bend Asylum, and all the many children of the industrial schools. Green boughs are used plentifully to deck the great halls of the several institutions, in lieu of holly, which is still of rare growth in the colonies. It would be a desirable innovation could the hot and heavy plum-pudding of the United Kingdom be replaced by some cooler and more seasonable dainty dish; but long-cherished associations cast a " glamour" over the luscious compound,...
Page 114 - ... so that each may judge for himself. The first mention of the occurrence of gold in New South Wales was made as early as the month of August, 1788 — the alleged discovery by a convict of the name of Dailey, however, proved to be without foundation, as he afterwards confessed that he had filed down a yellow metal buckle, and had mixed with it some gold filed from a guinea, and some earth to give it a natural appearance — Vide Captain Hunter's Journal, p. 84, published 1793. Mr. John White,...
Page 100 - This exploit made a very favourable impression on the minds of the men on the station, for like most men of their class, they had a great admiration for pluck and daring.
Page 171 - XI BEAUTY AND DUTY IN the above lights it may be worth while to say a few words on the subjects of Art and Morality. Beauty and Duty are two of the great formative Ideas of which we have spoken. They operate especially in the more advanced sections of the human race; and wherever they make their appearance they modify Life profoundly. Like all the ideas, they are on one side an incommunicable...
Page 349 - Collins street, lined by the best drapers' and jewellers shops, with here and there a bank or private office intervening, is known as ' the Block,' and is the daily resort of the belles and beaux. . . ." 1875. R. and F. Hill, ' What We Saw in Australia,
Page 115 - The gold country is usually undulating, with ranges of low hills, covered with iron-bark and stringy-bark trees. The soil is usually poor, of a gravelly or light loamy nature, and thinly grassed; while athwart the scanty vegetation white quartz reefs crop up, with here and there a tiny spark of the red gold glittering out from its firm white bed.
Page 112 - It was, diat one Dailey, a convict, had discovered a piece of ground, wherein he had found a considerable quantity of a yellow coloured ore, which, upon its being tried, appeared to have a certain proportion of gold in it; at this time the governor happened to be absent on a short excursion into...
Page 108 - Scarcely an hour later, the creek which flowed by the homestead, and which had been almost dried up by the summer heat, was heard tumbling and roaring along its bed, with the strength and velocity of a torrent. It rose rapidly, till it had attained a height of about twelve feet, spreading over the adjacent flat, and tearing down fences and other obstacles in its way, bearing them onwards on its foaming bosom.