The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the Earliest Date to the Present Day, Band 1Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abounded Adventure Bay Allan Cunningham amongst arrived banks Batavia Batman Beagle birds boat Botany Bay called camp Cape Captain Cook Captain Flinders Captain Grey Captain Sturt cattle coast of Australia colony continued course crew crossed Dampier Darling Diemen's Land discovered discovery Dutch east eastward endeavour expedition exploration Eyre feet fire Gellibrand Glenelg Governor grass Guinea Gulf Gulf of Carpentaria hills horses Island Isles journey kangaroos Lachlan lake latitude Lieutenant Grey longitude Macquarie Major Mitchell miles mountains Murray Murrumbidgee natives navigators north-west northward observed Oxley party passed plains Port Essington Port Jackson Port Phillip Prince Regent's River proceeded Range reached reefs rocks sailed savages says seen sent ship shore soon South Wales southward Stokes stream Swan River Sydney Tasman thence Torres Straits traced trees Van Diemen's Land vessel Victoria voyage western westward woods wrecked Zealand
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Seite 66 - The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, &c.
Seite 276 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning -women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Seite 66 - Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close.
Seite 66 - Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes...
Seite 21 - Terra' begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent, that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world.
Seite 244 - ... followers. With every pacific disposition, and an extreme reluctance to take away life, I foresaw that it would be impossible any longer to avoid an engagement, yet with such fearful numbers against us I was doubtful of the result. The spectacle we had witnessed had been one of the most...
Seite 157 - Projects of this nature, when originating in the minds of young men, are usually termed romantic; and so far from any good being anticipated, even prudence and friendship join in discouraging, if not in opposing them.
Seite 175 - ... fathoms; and it being then dark, we came to an anchor. The extensive harbour we had thus unexpectedly found I supposed must be Western Port, although the narrowness of the entrance did by no means correspond with the width given to it by Mr. Bass. It was the information of captain Baudin, who had coasted along from thence with fine weather, and had found no inlet of any kind, which induced this supposition; and the very great extent of the place, agreeing with that of Western Port, was in confirmation...
Seite 100 - S. in right of his Majesty King George the Third, by the name of New South Wales, with all the bays, harbours, rivers, and islands situated upon it : We then fired three vollies of small arms, which were answered by the same number from the ship.
Seite 154 - Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies and the storm repels, High on a rock, amid the troubled air, Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair...