A History of Australia, Volume 2Cambridge University Press, 1968 - Australia |
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Page 115
... bushrangers occupied the hut , and began to smash open the drawers , till Mrs Reid , believing it was better to be a living dog than a dead lion threw them the keys . Then the bushrangers filled sheets with the Reid's possessions , and ...
... bushrangers occupied the hut , and began to smash open the drawers , till Mrs Reid , believing it was better to be a living dog than a dead lion threw them the keys . Then the bushrangers filled sheets with the Reid's possessions , and ...
Page 116
... bushrangers should return . They used the labour of their convict servants to make their wealth , and put up a mansion , in front of which Georgian pillars supporting a wide verandah witnessed to their ideas of comfort and grandeur ...
... bushrangers should return . They used the labour of their convict servants to make their wealth , and put up a mansion , in front of which Georgian pillars supporting a wide verandah witnessed to their ideas of comfort and grandeur ...
Page 291
... bushrangers the settlers had made their own in- dividual arrangements for the defence of their property and their lives . They had turned up to meetings in 1832 and 1833 in their own districts to growl about quitrent . But for the rest ...
... bushrangers the settlers had made their own in- dividual arrangements for the defence of their property and their lives . They had turned up to meetings in 1832 and 1833 in their own districts to growl about quitrent . But for the rest ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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