Nine Years in Van Diemen's LandJ. Syme, 1848 - 384 من الصفحات |
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acres afford arrived attended banditti bank beautiful bushrangers Campbell Town cattle charge colony conduct considerable convicts course crime crop cultivation Derwent diem Diemen's Land discipline district duty emigrant employed England ewes export extensive farms favourable felons flocks Forster frequently gang gaols George Town Government graft ground head hiring depôt Hobart Town hundred island latter Launceston Lieutenant-Governor Macquarie Macquarie harbour ment miles from Hobart months Mount Wellington nature night Norfolk Norfolk Island Norfolk Plains observed obtain offences officers party passholders perhaps persons Pitt Water Plains police Port possessed potatoes pounds prisoners probation station punishment Purslowe received reform river river Derwent season sent sentence settlement settlers sheep ship situation soil South South Wales superintendent supply taken Tamar Ther tickets of leave tion trees Van Diemen's Land vessel visiting magistrate wheat wool yards
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الصفحة 379 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants.
الصفحة 38 - Richmond is bounded on the south and east by the sea, on the north by Oatlands, and on the west by New Norfolk...
الصفحة 109 - Ay, I guessed you were not raised here; you salt-water people are mighty grand to coloured people; you are not so proud, and I guess you have more to be proud of; now I reckon you do not know that my boss would not have a single ugly or clever gentleman come to his store, if he cut coloured men; now my boss, I guess, ordered me to turn out every coloured man from the store right away, and if I did not, he would send me off slick; for the slimmest gentleman in York would not come to his store if coloured...
الصفحة 110 - And you come all the way right away from England. Well! I would not have supposed, I guess, that you come from there from your tongue; you have no hardness like, I guess, in your speaking; you talk almost as well as we do, and that is what I never see, I guess, in a gentleman so lately from England. I guess that your talk is within a grade as good as ours.
الصفحة 253 - Geary that stopped me ; he said he wanted me to see every man sworn to abide by the contents of a letter. I observed a thick man writing, as I suppose, to the Lieutenant-Governor. Geary was the man who administered the oath on a prayer book, calling each man for that purpose regularly ; they did not inform me of the contents of the letter.
الصفحة 46 - ... building, which is quite new, is admirably suited for the purposes of classification and employment — two objects which deservedly occupy the attention of the advocates for confinement of the present day ; although, how far confinement at all answers any good end with the many, who are for months and months shut up within the walls of this house of correction, is altogether another consideration, the discussion of which is foreign to our present subject. The male and female orphan schools are...
الصفحة 62 - England, grows much better in Van Diemen's Land. NATURAL HISTORY. — The natural history of the Colony comprises kangaroo, of three different species, viz., the forest, the brush, and the wallaby; the chief difference however between them is the size. The forest kangaroo is quite a large animal, its hind quarters weighing from eighty to ninety pounds, and it stands the full height of a man. When hotly pursued, it will make a desperate resistance, frequently overmatching and disabling two strong...
الصفحة 108 - The barber enquired if he wanted the proprietor or his boss, as he termed him, who was also a black: the answer was in the negative ; but that he wished to have his hair cut. My man turned upon his heel, and with the greatest contempt, muttered in a tone of proud importance, " We do not
الصفحة 108 - There exists a penal law, deeply written in the mind of the whole white population, which subjects their coloured fellow-citizens to unconditional contumely and never-ceasing insult. No respectability, however unquestionable, — no property, however large, — no character, however unblemished, will gain a man, whose body is (in American estimation) cursed with even a twentieth portion of the blood of his African ancestry, admission into society!!! They are considered as mere Pariahs — as outcasts...