A Voyage to Australia and New Zealand, Including a Visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland: With a Summary of the Progress and Discoveries Made in Each Colony from Its Founding to the Present TimeSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1857 - 471 sidor Physical description of Aborigines in Adelaide area; death of white man by inserting emu bone into heart; natives near Newcastle; Jackey Jackey, who went with Kennedy. |
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Sida 233 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Sida 460 - I then tied up the papers; he then said, "Jackey, give me paper and I will write"; I gave him paper and pencil, and he tried to write, and he then fell back and died, and I caught him as he fell back and held him, and I then turned round myself and cried : I was crying a good while until I got well; that was about an hour, and then I buried him; I...
Sida 429 - But the symptoms are more doubtful with regard to the higher mental indications. Apt in many departments of knowledge, minutely observant of transactions, often amazingly shrewd and intelligent, the untutored savage shines with a...
Sida 391 - To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Sida 459 - ... also there. New birds and new plants marked this out as an essentially different region from any I had previously explored : and although I could not follow the river throughout its long course at that advanced season, I was convinced that its estuary was in the Gulf of Carpentaria ; at all events, the country is open and well watered for a direct route thereto.
Sida 463 - ... assured that but for the support I derived from prayer and frequent perusal and meditation of the Scriptures, I should never have been able to have borne myself in such a manner as to have maintained discipline and confidence amongst the rest of the party : nor in all my sufferings did I ever lose the consolation derived from a firm reliance upon the goodness of Providence.
Sida 152 - Such was the amazing amount of wealth which had fallen into the hands of the working classes, that society was turned upside down, and once for all in the history of the world (in point of wealth at least) "Jack was as good as his master", and in some cases far better.
Sida 429 - The Bushman ; or, Life in a New Country,' p. 212 : "Fish and other things are frequently baked in the bark of the papertree." 1857. J. Askew, ' Voyage to Australia and New Zealand,' p. 433 : "The dead bodies are burnt or buried, though some in North Australia place the corpse in the paper bark of the tea-tree, and deposit it in a hollow tree.
Sida 194 - In Hunter-street there is a museum of natural history. This place has a shop front, and the window contains beautiful specimens of preserved animals. A fine gazelle is seen standing in a listening attitude, and several specimens of that curious little animal, the duck-billed mole, kangaroos, opossums, bandecoots, and dingoes, and many of the feathered tribe of Australasia and the islands of the Pacific. There is another museum close to the college on the Wooloomooloo road in Darlinghurst. It is a...
Sida 194 - ... of a native chief, shells and other marine curiosities ad infinitum. On the east side of the room there are models of the most celebrated groups and statues of ancient and modern sculpture Venus de Medicis, the Dying Gladiator, Appollo Belvidere, Cupid and Psyche, the Laocoons, and several others. Descriptive cards with handles to them, are placed on the top of each. In Wooloomooloo there was an exhibition of statues, &c., formed of Portland cement. Guarding its entrance, were colossal lions,...