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donna-like face visited the women under sentence of transportation, opened the
Bible, and read to them in a most sweetly solemn manner. She encouraged them
in their needlework, their knitting and their rug-making, and by the love of Christ ...
donna-like face visited the women under sentence of transportation, opened the
Bible, and read to them in a most sweetly solemn manner. She encouraged them
in their needlework, their knitting and their rug-making, and by the love of Christ ...
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In the towns the aborigines eked out a living as degraded wretches who cadged
alcohol and tobacco, and provided blood sports for the white men, while their
women washed bottles in the white man's kitchen. In the bays and harbours
along ...
In the towns the aborigines eked out a living as degraded wretches who cadged
alcohol and tobacco, and provided blood sports for the white men, while their
women washed bottles in the white man's kitchen. In the bays and harbours
along ...
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comedy for the amusement and entertainment of the men and women in higher
places. When a Mrs Dixon had her wig torn off her during a fight with another
woman the onlookers roared with drunken laughter. The press of Sydney too
found ...
comedy for the amusement and entertainment of the men and women in higher
places. When a Mrs Dixon had her wig torn off her during a fight with another
woman the onlookers roared with drunken laughter. The press of Sydney too
found ...
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Contents
DARKNESS | 1 |
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
Copyright | |
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aborigines April arrived asked August Australian began believed Botany Bay Brisbane British Bryan Catholic Chief Justice Church Colonial Secretary Colonist committee convict servants convict system crime currency lads D'Arcy Wentworth December depravity Diemen's Land drunkenness Dumaresq E. S. Hall emancipists Encl England evil eyes father February Forbes gaol Gellibrand Glenelg God's Goderich Governor heart Hobart Town Hobart Town Courier honour hope human ibid immigrants James Macarthur January John Macarthur July June knew Launceston Legislative Council letter lived London lord Bathurst Macarthur Papers Macquarie magistrates Majesty's March McLeay mind Molesworth moral Mudie Murray native native-born November October Parramatta passion persons petition political Protestant punishment Reverend Samuel Marsden Samuel Marsden September settlers society South Wales Sydney Gazette Sydney Herald Therry Thomas Brisbane told Tory transportation trial by jury W. C. Wentworth W. G. Broughton Wardell Whig William women wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838 Volume 2 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 2 of Dummy reekstitel |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 200 pages |
| Subjects | › Australia History / Australia & New Zealand History / General History / Oceania |
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