Excursions and Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting and of Life in the Bush : an Account of the Climate, Productions, and Natural History of the Colony, and the Manners and Customs of the Natives, with Advice to Immigrants, Etc, Том 1W. Shoberl, 1851 - Всего страниц: 294 |
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... shilling to one , and sixpence to the other , I was permitted to pass . The ship lay at anchor all night . Next morning , as before , the natives came off with their boats full of fruit , which they sold at a very moderate price ...
... shilling to one , and sixpence to the other , I was permitted to pass . The ship lay at anchor all night . Next morning , as before , the natives came off with their boats full of fruit , which they sold at a very moderate price ...
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... shillings being the modest demand for the stall , and rack full of withered straw which my poor nag enjoyed during the night . Goulburn Plains are of considerable extent , and varying by a few feet in elevation from each other . They ...
... shillings being the modest demand for the stall , and rack full of withered straw which my poor nag enjoyed during the night . Goulburn Plains are of considerable extent , and varying by a few feet in elevation from each other . They ...
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... shillings per acre , i . e . , such was its minimum price ; but , on applying for a section . it is put up to auction , and it may mount up to any sum people are foolish enough to bid for it . The principal advantage proposed by those ...
... shillings per acre , i . e . , such was its minimum price ; but , on applying for a section . it is put up to auction , and it may mount up to any sum people are foolish enough to bid for it . The principal advantage proposed by those ...
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... shillings and sixpence per score . As each sheep is shorn , the shearer takes the fleece to the sorting- table , and either calls out his name or , if he is known , tells the tally - keeper to mark one for him . As there are often many ...
... shillings and sixpence per score . As each sheep is shorn , the shearer takes the fleece to the sorting- table , and either calls out his name or , if he is known , tells the tally - keeper to mark one for him . As there are often many ...
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... flour , tea , salt , tobacco , and sugar , and a pack- bullock to carry them upon . This last cost twelve pounds . For the flour , I paid sixty shillings the hundred pounds ; for tea , five shillings 294 EXCURSIONS AND ADVENTURES.
... flour , tea , salt , tobacco , and sugar , and a pack- bullock to carry them upon . This last cost twelve pounds . For the flour , I paid sixty shillings the hundred pounds ; for tea , five shillings 294 EXCURSIONS AND ADVENTURES.
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Стр. 295 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Стр. 4 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Стр. 145 - Under these circumstances, it is evident that the same law cannot be justly and equally administered to the two races, who are continually thrown into hostile contact on the frontiers of the colony. The gun is the only law the black fears: the only power that deters him from murder and plunder; and the only available administrator of punishment for his offences. Those who denounce the squatter as a murderer and land-robber, it has been well said in "Kennedy's Account of Texas," "take no thought of...
Стр. 56 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Стр. 303 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Стр. 46 - Still must I on.; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Стр. 46 - The ship, half swallow'd in the black profound. With ceaseless hazard and fatigue opprest, Dismay and anguish every heart possest ; For while, with...
Стр. 43 - I could be well mov'd, if I were as you ; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me : But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fix'd, and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Стр. 217 - Hover in the darkened air ; Like a torrent dashing loud, Bringing famine and despair. And often o'er the level waste The stifling hot winds fly ; Down falls the swain with trembling haste, The gasping cattle die.