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Page 130
... Chinese , rabbiting in hundreds , with pick and bucket ratted every acre , fossicking by the light of sun and moon . They picked up thousands of ounces from under the white men's noses , and kept the white men out by force of numbers ...
... Chinese , rabbiting in hundreds , with pick and bucket ratted every acre , fossicking by the light of sun and moon . They picked up thousands of ounces from under the white men's noses , and kept the white men out by force of numbers ...
Page 159
... Chinese , and with dead Chinese travelling to China . The diggers were still swimming the creeks with pickle - bottles full of yellow treasure . On the fields there was nothing to eat but bad flour and brahminee kites . One man sat in ...
... Chinese , and with dead Chinese travelling to China . The diggers were still swimming the creeks with pickle - bottles full of yellow treasure . On the fields there was nothing to eat but bad flour and brahminee kites . One man sat in ...
Page 209
... Chinese . The Front Gate of Australia looked more like a back street in Pekin . Population in pigtails was five times that of the élite in pyjamas - scarlet banners , god - shrines , the analects of Confucius and reek of opium all down ...
... Chinese . The Front Gate of Australia looked more like a back street in Pekin . Population in pigtails was five times that of the élite in pyjamas - scarlet banners , god - shrines , the analects of Confucius and reek of opium all down ...
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