 Convicts of but recent migration are facetiously known by the name of canaries, by reason of the yellow plumage in which they are fledged at the period of landing; but when fairly domiciliated, they are more respectfully spoken of under the loyal designation...  Two Years in New South Wales - Page 109by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - History - 2000 - 380 pages
...official characters employed under the government, in street-mending, brick-making, and suchlike — the titular letters not portending that they belong to...ticklish to be pronounced in these sensitive latitudes... The grand division, however, of the free classes here, without reference to colonial technicalities,... | |
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