The Genesis of Queensland: An Account of the First Exploring Journeys to and Over Darling Downs: the Earliest Days of Their Occupation; Social Life; Station Seeking; the Course of Discovery, Northward and Westward; and a Resumé of the Causes which Led to Separation from New South Wales...Turner & Henderson, 1888 - 633 Seiten Contacts with natives noted; p.22; Moreton Bay natives used to locate runaways; p.24; Nasal septum pierced, two joints of little finger left hand removed; manufacture of nets and baskets; fishing; shelters; duels described; p.31; Bathurst Island; tattoos, painted, scarification, physical appearance; clothing; weapons; p.34; Grave in detail; p.253; Sunstroke cure; p.295; Cannibalism; p.313; Gathering of tribes for Bunnia [bunya] season; p.339; Childrens games with bows and arrows. |
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... extreme abundance , while spices , cotton , and almost all tropical valuable articles , I am convinced , may be cultivated with success . The climate is certainly extraordinary ; we have not had one case of actual sickness since we came ...
... extreme abundance , while spices , cotton , and almost all tropical valuable articles , I am convinced , may be cultivated with success . The climate is certainly extraordinary ; we have not had one case of actual sickness since we came ...
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... extreme jealousy . " The desire for British calico goods , for brass wire , iron , and other hardware amongst the islands is astonishing . They have abundance of cattle , fruit , fowls , yams , & c . , and some corn . I established a ...
... extreme jealousy . " The desire for British calico goods , for brass wire , iron , and other hardware amongst the islands is astonishing . They have abundance of cattle , fruit , fowls , yams , & c . , and some corn . I established a ...
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... extreme system of punishment which was exposed by such reiterated " last words " on the gallows . There was a prevalent rumour in the North that the terrible occurrences which had marked Logan's end had been worked out by the blacks ...
... extreme system of punishment which was exposed by such reiterated " last words " on the gallows . There was a prevalent rumour in the North that the terrible occurrences which had marked Logan's end had been worked out by the blacks ...
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... extreme summit of the range about two miles to the westward , at a mean elevation of three thousand and eighty feet above the level of the sea , a sloping grassy ridge enabled us to descend to the head of a valley at the northern foot ...
... extreme summit of the range about two miles to the westward , at a mean elevation of three thousand and eighty feet above the level of the sea , a sloping grassy ridge enabled us to descend to the head of a valley at the northern foot ...
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... extreme of the Melville Hills , through a dry brushy tract of forest ground , and were then enabled to shape a more direct line of route to the N.W. On this line of course , which led us through a level wooded country , scarcely one ...
... extreme of the Melville Hills , through a dry brushy tract of forest ground , and were then enabled to shape a more direct line of route to the N.W. On this line of course , which led us through a level wooded country , scarcely one ...
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afterwards anchor appeared Arthur Hodgson August Australia bank blacks boat bore Bracefell Brisbane called camp Cape Captain Logan Cecil Plains channel Cheers coast colony command Condamine convicts course creek Darling Downs despatch distance Dividing Range east eastward encampment England fathom feet forest four gentlemen Government Governor grass ground head hills honour hope horses hundred Jacky Jimbour journey labour land latitude leagues Legislative Council Leslie longitude look Lord lordship Melville Island miles Moreton Bay morning Mount Mount Warning mountains natives night noon northern districts northward o'clock observed party passage passed Patrick Leslie Port Essington Port Jackson Port Macquarie Port Phillip reached reef ridge river rock sail seen sent separation settlement sheep ship shoals shore side South Wales southward spears squatters station Strait stream Sydney Terra Australis trees westward
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Seite 506 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Seite 248 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Seite 126 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me : and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Seite 268 - This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me ; wouldst give me Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Seite 278 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Seite 442 - O, that estates, degrees and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover that stand bare! How many be commanded that command ! How much low peasantry would then be...
Seite 357 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Seite 412 - Don't look far away," as I thought he would be frightened; I asked him often, "Are you well now?" and he said, "I don't care for the spear wound in my leg, Jackey, but for the other two spear wounds in my side and back," and said, "I am bad inside, Jackey.
Seite 496 - Melbourne, and bounded on the north and northeast by a straight line drawn from Cape How to the nearest source of the river Murray, and thence by the course of that river to the eastern boundary of the colony of South Australia...
Seite 340 - ... to obviate; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated: we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.