Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies: With a Glimpse of the Gold Fields, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1852 |
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Pagina 12
... course kept us pretty generally within sight of land , and sometimes very near it . The character of the coast is scarcely highland , yet neither is it flat . It presents a wavy line of hills and hollows covered with bush , occasionally ...
... course kept us pretty generally within sight of land , and sometimes very near it . The character of the coast is scarcely highland , yet neither is it flat . It presents a wavy line of hills and hollows covered with bush , occasionally ...
Pagina 25
... course not wanting ; but that tiresome shadeless never - green does not here exclusively usurp the Sylva , as in the Blue Mountains . It grows side by side with a singularly handsome tree of a Myrtaceous character , covered with small ...
... course not wanting ; but that tiresome shadeless never - green does not here exclusively usurp the Sylva , as in the Blue Mountains . It grows side by side with a singularly handsome tree of a Myrtaceous character , covered with small ...
Pagina 36
... saving in wages is of course immense . Small flocks , like little wars , don't pay ! The pastor in question was a poet , we were told . I was favoured with the perusal of A SHEPHERD , A POET , AND A PICKPOCKET . 36 OUR ANTIPODES .
... saving in wages is of course immense . Small flocks , like little wars , don't pay ! The pastor in question was a poet , we were told . I was favoured with the perusal of A SHEPHERD , A POET , AND A PICKPOCKET . 36 OUR ANTIPODES .
Pagina 39
... to gentleman squatters , for the supply of their stations , of which inns and stores at least one of course appertains to the ubiqui- tous Major , two or three other slab and bark huts , and a sprouting church . It has the advantage of.
... to gentleman squatters , for the supply of their stations , of which inns and stores at least one of course appertains to the ubiqui- tous Major , two or three other slab and bark huts , and a sprouting church . It has the advantage of.
Pagina 40
... course framed in gum - trees ; and boasts a fine chain of water - holes , which , after heavy rains , puts on the guise of a continuous stream . The Governor received an address signed by " the clergy ( man ) , magistracy and other ...
... course framed in gum - trees ; and boasts a fine chain of water - holes , which , after heavy rains , puts on the guise of a continuous stream . The Governor received an address signed by " the clergy ( man ) , magistracy and other ...
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Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian ..., Volume 2 Godfrey Charles Mundy Volledige weergave - 1852 |
Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian ..., Volume 2 Godfrey Charles Mundy Volledige weergave - 1852 |
Our Antipodes: Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian ..., Volume 2 Godfrey Charles Mundy Volledige weergave - 1852 |
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Aborigines appeared armed attack Auckland barrack Bay of Islands block-house boats British bush cannibal canoe Captain Captain Grey chief chieftain Christian Colonel colony commanding distant enemy England English Englishman European Excellency expedition eyes feet fight fire flag-staff flank flax force gallant Government Governor Governor Grey Grey guns hand harbour Heki Heki's hill Honi honour horses Kauri Kawiti killed Kororarika labour ladies land looking Maori massacre ment miles military missionary Mount Eden mountains natives never officer Pakeha party perhaps Porirua Port Macquarie Port Nicholson present race Rangihaieta Rauperaha rebel Regiment river road rough round savage seamen settlement settlers ship shore shot soldiers South Wales spot station stockade Sydney Taniwha tattooed timber tomahawk town treaty of Waitangi tree tribe troops vessel Wahapu Waikato chief Waimate Wairau Waitemata harbour Waka Wanganui war-dance Wellington Whero-Whero wild wounded young Zealand
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Pagina 136 - Gothic shape, were fetched from Tauranga, on the coast, a distance of seventy-five miles, by fourteen men, who carried them on their backs over mountains and through forests without any pay whatever. The whole tribe, amounting to about six or seven hundred, are now nearly all Christianised.
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