A Panorama of the New World, Volumen 1T.C. Newby, 1859 - 300 páginas |
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30th Sept aborigines appeared arrival auctioneer Australia Ballaarat banks Batman beautiful Bendigo boarders boat Bourke Street Bourke Street East bush Captain chums civilisation Collins Street colony commenced companion continued course creek dark Dieman's Land diggers diggings dinner evidently feet fire forest friends Geelong George Town gold fields Government Governor grass ground Gulley head hills horses hundred kangaroo latter Launceston leaving looked Melbourne ment miles months morning Mount never night o'clock passed plain Port Curtis Port Phillip Port Sorell pounds Prince's Bridge Quarter ending Railway rain reached river road sail seen shillings ship shore side sight soon squatter station STEAM steamer stretchers Swanston Street Sydney natives thing tion took trees tribe valley Van Dieman's Land vessel Victoria wharf wife wild wind Yarra Yarra
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Página 409 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 34 - Gul* in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute : Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? 'Tis the clime of the East ; 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ?f Oh ! wild as the accents of lovers'...
Página 34 - Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine; Where the light wings of Zephyr...
Página 34 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in...
Página 399 - Sydney natives came on board this morning for the purpose of assisting in packing up, and otherwise making preparations for our contemplated expedition into the interior. As it continued to rain heavily, and a heavy bank of fog prevented our seeing any distance, I proposed, rather than lose time, to go with the vessel to the river, and from thence take my departure for the bush. We made the river by 3 pm, and observed that the whole of the coast at the head of the bay was clear of timber, and a constant...
Página 408 - I gave them blankets, knives, looking-glasses, tomahawks, beads, scissors, flour, &c., and I also further agreed to pay them a tribute or rent yearly. The parchment or deed was signed this afternoon by the eight chiefs, each of them, at the same time, handing me a portion of the soil : thus giving me full possession of the tracts of land I had purchased.
Página 190 - ... piece of ground, and certainly above the reach of the floods, there were seven or eight huts, very different in shape and substance Irom any he had seen. They were made of strong boughs fixed in a circle in the ground so as to meet in a common centre. On these there was, as in some other huts, a thiek seam of grass and leaves, and over this again a compact coating of clay.
Página 407 - I gave them knives, tomahawks, &c., whereupon they took the lead, and brought us back about a mile, to where we found huts or gunyahs, and a number of women and children. We sat down in the midst of these sooty and sable aboriginal children of Australia: amongst whom, we ascertained, were eight chiefs belonging to the country near Port Phillip, over which we had travelled, and with which we had so much reason to be pleased. The three principal chiefs were brothers. Two of them were fully six feet...
Página 406 - June 6. — During the greater part of last night the wind was very high, accompanied with a few showers of rain. We made an early breakfast, and resumed our journey in order to reach the camp of the blacks, the smoke of whose fires we had seen yesterday. We travelled over land equal to any that we had seen, a deep black diluvium, with grass three or four feet high, and thinly-timbered. After travelling eight miles we struck the trail of the natives, which in a short time led us to a branch of the...
Página 415 - This morning the winds set in foul for Indented Heads, and, having made several attempts to get out of the river, we gave it up as hopeless. We went, in the boat, up the large river coming from the east, and, after examination six miles up, I was pleased to find the water quite fresh and very deep : this will be the place for the future village.