Journal of a Rambler: The Journal of John BoultbeeOxford University Press, 1986 - 225 էջ Story of John Boultbee's travels in the early nineteenth century. Includes observations of Aboriginal people during experiences at Hobart Town, Port Jackson and Swan River. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 49–ի 1-ից 3-ը:
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... passage to Dublin in a dirty miserable Brig taking with me my clothes only , not a sixpence in money . After a half - starved passage , we arrived in Dublin , where I went on shore , and bespoke a passage in the Earl of Moira Packet ...
... passage to Dublin in a dirty miserable Brig taking with me my clothes only , not a sixpence in money . After a half - starved passage , we arrived in Dublin , where I went on shore , and bespoke a passage in the Earl of Moira Packet ...
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... passage in the vessel . We sailed from hence to the Julian island , where the Captain found a boats ' crew starving , who eagerly offered him 200 seal skins to take them and their boat to Preservation Island , a distance of 200 miles ...
... passage in the vessel . We sailed from hence to the Julian island , where the Captain found a boats ' crew starving , who eagerly offered him 200 seal skins to take them and their boat to Preservation Island , a distance of 200 miles ...
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... passage nothing but a succession of heavy gales and squalls , so violent that we often could not carry more than close reefed topsails , and more than once hove - to : We put into Acheen on the North West coast of Sumatra , and came to ...
... passage nothing but a succession of heavy gales and squalls , so violent that we often could not carry more than close reefed topsails , and more than once hove - to : We put into Acheen on the North West coast of Sumatra , and came to ...
Common terms and phrases
aboriginal amongst anchored arrived Barbados Bass Strait beach Beattie birds boat boatsteerer Boultbee's brig brother canoes Captain Ceylon chief coast Colombo colony Cove crew Diemen's Land Dusky Bay Dutch English European feet fellow fire fish flax Foveaux Strait Fremantle friends ground Harbour hauled head Hobart Town JB's John Boultbee Journal Kent killed living Lond Malay Manila Maori miles Monado months Murihiku muskets muttonbird Narrative natives night Open Bay Otago Pahee party passage Phillip Island Port Jackson Port Macquarie potatoes Preservation Island proas Rambler records returned rocks Ruabuka Ruapuke Ruapuke Island sailed schooner sealers sealing settlement settlers ship shore Shortland Singapore skins Skipper South Wales Southern Stewart Island Swan River Sydney Tarbuka Ternate Thomas Timor told took trees Tuhawaiki Van Diemen's Land vessel voyage walked Western Australia Whakataupuka whale wind women Zealand