History of Australia, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1883 |
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Page 49 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Page 12 - Zealand : on the llth, we run up the channel; at six in the morning of the 12th we passed Beachy Head ; at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
Page 260 - ... him. It by no means follows that an officer conceiving himself to have been wrongfully put in arrest, or otherwise aggrieved, is without remedy. A complaint is afterwards open to him, if preferred in a proper manner, for which provision is made by a special Article of War.
Page 17 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify2 over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 64 - Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into Australia ; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
Page 146 - I do not scruple to pronounce that in the whole world there is not a worse country than what we have yet seen of this. All that is contiguous to us is so very barren and forbidding...
Page 342 - I shall add nothing further on the subject, but that were I to settle in the upper part of the Harbour, which is full of Natives, I should require four times the force I have now, to guard not only the convicts, but perhaps myself, from their attacks. "I cannot but suppose that all the disadvantages of Port Phillip are as well known to your Excellency as they are to myself at this moment. If they are, you will have anticipated this Report, but it may not have entered into your contemplation, that...