An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait: On the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the Years 1802-3-4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and J.C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805 - Aboriginal Australians - 239 pages |
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... half a crown each sheep are scarce , and bad ; and hogs neither cheap nor good * . The only fish we saw , were large mackarel , vast shoals of which come into the bay at this season ; they are caught with hook and line , and at- tracted ...
... half a crown each sheep are scarce , and bad ; and hogs neither cheap nor good * . The only fish we saw , were large mackarel , vast shoals of which come into the bay at this season ; they are caught with hook and line , and at- tracted ...
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... half - starved and naked prisoners , with iron chains extending from their necks to the prison door , sufficiently long to admit their coming to the foot - path of the strect , for the purpose of begging . 2 differently , differently ...
... half - starved and naked prisoners , with iron chains extending from their necks to the prison door , sufficiently long to admit their coming to the foot - path of the strect , for the purpose of begging . 2 differently , differently ...
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... though ava ricious ; and the superabundance of all the mere necessaries of life alone , pre- vents the latter from being indigent beggars . Those who can acquire half E 4 a do- a dozen slaves , live in idleness upon the wages ( 55 )
... though ava ricious ; and the superabundance of all the mere necessaries of life alone , pre- vents the latter from being indigent beggars . Those who can acquire half E 4 a do- a dozen slaves , live in idleness upon the wages ( 55 )
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... half boots , have ceased to be considered a foreign costume . The women wear their waists very short , their bosoms much exposed , and their head - dresses and naked arms covered with a profusion of sparkling stones * which are of ...
... half boots , have ceased to be considered a foreign costume . The women wear their waists very short , their bosoms much exposed , and their head - dresses and naked arms covered with a profusion of sparkling stones * which are of ...
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... half cured , or jerked beef , both brought from Rio Grande ; and their beverage is a deleterious and ardent spirit , which from its cheapness comes within the reach of their scanty finances . The causes of the hydrocele , which often ...
... half cured , or jerked beef , both brought from Rio Grande ; and their beverage is a deleterious and ardent spirit , which from its cheapness comes within the reach of their scanty finances . The causes of the hydrocele , which often ...
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Page 50 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
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Page 120 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Page 78 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 190 - I beheld a second Rome, rising from a coalition of banditti. I beheld it giving laws to the world, and superlative in arms and in. arts, looking down with proud superiority upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere ; thus running over the airy visions of empire, wealth, and glory, I wandered amidst the delusions of imagination.
Page 79 - Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge The glowworm lights his gem ; and through the dark A moving radiance twinkles.
Page 40 - The Thunder holds his black tremendous throne ; From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolved, the whole precipitated mass Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.
Page 119 - Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.
Page 119 - Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles. On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on...
Page 186 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.