Early Experiences of Life in South Australia: And an Extended Colonial HistoryE.S. Wigg & Son, 1884 - 416 pages |
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acres afterwards Alford amongst appointed arrived banks blacks boat brig brought bullocks called camp Captain Grey Captain Sturt carried cattle charge Church coast Colonel Gawler Colonel Light colonists colony commenced Coorong course creek crossed despatched distance drays early Encounter Bay erected escaped expedition favourable feet fire Goolwa Government Governor harbour hills Hindmarsh Holdfast Bay horses Inspector Kangaroo Island killed Lake Lake Alexandrina land Longbottom Major O'Halloran ment Messrs miles morning Mount murder Murray Mouth named natives Nepean Bay night Northern Territory obtained ordered party passed passengers police Port Adelaide Port Darwin Port Lincoln prisoners Pullen reach received River Murray scrub seen sent settlers sheep ship soon South Australia South Wales spears started station survey Sydney taken tion Tolmer took Torrens track trees tribe wreck
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Page 218 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 218 - What Constitutes a State? WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...
Page 194 - M'Leay and three of the men would attend to the defence of the boat with bayonets only, while I, Hopkinson, and Harris, would keep up the fire, as being more used to it. I ordered, however, that no shot was to be fired until after I had discharged both my barrels. I then delivered their arms to the men, which had, as yet, been kept in the place appropriated for them, and at the same time, some rounds of loose cartridge. The men assured me they would follow my instructions, and thus prepared, having...
Page 357 - From Newcastle Water to the sea-beach, the main body of the horses have been only one night without water, and then got it within the next day.
Page 193 - ... across the channel. To this sand-bank they ran with tumultuous uproar, and covered it over in a dense mass. Some of the chiefs advanced to the water to be nearer their victims, and turned from time to time to direct their followers. With every pacific disposition, and an extreme reluctance...
Page 194 - He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly short space of time stood in front of the savage against whom my aim had been directed. Seizing him by the throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water upon the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking his clenched hand in the faces of the most forward, and stamping with passion on the...
Page 194 - ... across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly short space of time stood in front of the savage against whom my aim had been directed. Seizing him by the throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water upon the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking his clenched hand in the faces of the most forward, and stamping with passion on the sand, his voice, that...
Page 354 - The range on the opposite side of the river being the highest seen in this new country, it was named the Daly Range, after his Excellency the Governor-in-chief. The marsh is covered with fine grass, in which is growing a new kind of lily, with a large broad heart-shaped leaf, a foot or more across. The blossoms are six inches high, resembling a tulip in shape, and are of a deep brilliant rose colour ; the seeds are contained in a vessel resembling the rose of a watering-pot. The marsh had to be rounded,...
Page 266 - They had unifitentionally approached too near to hope to retire without giving an alarm, and then the. game would be lost. Mr. Alford decided there was nothing for it but to make a rush in order to effect a capture. He therefore whispered to his comrade that he would quietly dismount and creep to the fence, and on his rushing over, his mate was to gallop round to the opposite side. Accordingly he made the rush, calling out, " Men, surround the yard ; shoot down any escaping. Surrender yourselves...
Page 3 - Bay, in about four fathoms water (sand and mud) close in shore : our first object being to procure salt to ballast the ship and to cure skins. To facilitate this object two boats were dispatched, with five men in each, to discover the salt Lagoon, and ascertain where the seals resorted to round the island. While these two boats were thus engaged, our other boat and three men were employed in searching for water, and examining the various bays and anchorage.