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  2. Celebrities at Botany Bay.

    PALMER'S letter addressed to Joyce, was evidently written under the influence of good spirits and ...

    Article : 611 words
  3. FOUR YEARS HARD LUCK.

    PHILOSOPHERS tell us there is no such thing as luck. Perhaps there isn't. But anyway, I'd like them ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,673 words
  4. One of Life's Handicaps.

    IT was almost sunset, the iron roofs of the Bunda Cattle Station caught the last rays of the heavy heat. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,553 words
  5. How Archibald Forbes Won the Gross.

    THE Russo-Turkish campaign had been in progress for several months before I had the honor of being From Archibald Forbes's "Memories and Studies of War and Peace." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,593 words
  6. THE PARSON ROUSED.

    There were great rejoicings at Hunter's arrival among the small country settlers and the townspeople, who had found the military and civil gentlemen rather too much, for them in matters of ...

    Article : 295 words
  7. FUNNY DOGS.

    In another eclogue a soldier transported for robbery addresses a tanner who shot the squire's partridges at home for eating his seed—Suppose we leave awhile this stubborn soll ...

    Article : 173 words
  8. HUNTER'S HILL.

    After the white sails of the Doedalus had disappeared from view the martyrs returned to their villas in melancholy mood, feeling that they had lost their best friend in that part of the world; ...

    Article : 326 words
  9. THE OFFICERS' TRADE.

    On the last-mentioned point, Palmer was very much misinformed, for no order of the kind was made. Hunter had no instructions to prevent any officer from selling liquor; all that he was ...

    Article : 465 words
  10. GEORGE DYER.

    To appreciate the change which had come over him when this letter was written, it is necessary to look back a little. When he was on board the Stanislaus hulk in the Thames, one of his ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. BOATING.

    Fishing being an indispensable part of their labors, as the readiest means of obtaining a little fresh food, they employed one of the boatbuilders: in the Cove to make them one, for which they paid ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. CONVICTS AT WORK.

    While in the colony Thompson went up to Parramatta and on to Toongabbe, four miles further, where he saw 500 convicts at work preparing the soil for cultivation. "Their hours for work are ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. A SALT MANUFACTORY.

    Palmer's warmth of temper in this matter led him into some slight inaccuracies with respect to Boston. Salt was never scarce until the salt provisions had run out; and when that was the case ...

    Article : 204 words
  14. FARMING PROSPECTS.

    The small stock of spirits they had brought with them enabled them to stock their little farms with goats, pigs, poultry, and everything else they needed at prices that surprised them. ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. DOMESTIC LIFE.

    "At night they are placed in a hut, perhaps 14, 16, or 18 together, with one woman, whose duty is to keep it clean, and provide victuals for the men whilst at work, without the comforts of either ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. BURGLARS.

    The respect generally entertained for them did not prevent some of the ingenious people about them from making free with their property. In July, 95, all the salt meat in the stores having ...

    Article : 224 words
  17. THE FIRST BREWERY.

    The brewery speculation turned out a success, and Palmer got so good a return for the money Invested in it that, in '96, he assisted Boston in putting up a suitable building for the business. ...

    Article : 319 words
  18. GRIM DEATH.

    "Some time since it was not uncommon for seven or eight to die in one day, and very often, while at work, they being kept in the field till the last moment, and frequently while being ...

    Article : 178 words
  19. A NEW GOVERNOR.

    In the early morning of a fine September day in '95 the huts in the town were almost shaken out of their foundations by the thunder of the big guns, and on looking towards the Cove two armed ...

    Article : 148 words
  20. DYER'S APPEAL.

    The thought of his friend Palmer being condemned to pass seven years of his life in the midst of such horrible surroundings was too much for George Dyer to bear with indifference. "When I ...

    Article : 224 words
  21. A LAST APPEAL.

    But no prospects of success in farming or trading could reconcile them to the life of prisoners, while there was a chance of escaping from it; and in October, 95, they presented a memorial to Hunter— ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. THE BLACKS.

    They were not a little amused by the scene, particularly by the crowd of naked blackfellows, with their gins and piccanninies, who had gathered together to see if their countryman was still a ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. THE FAIR PENITENT.

    At the time when George Dyer was sketching Botany Bay from one point of view, an Oxford student named Robert Southey, was describing it from another, in a collection of "Botany Bay ...

    Article : 336 words
  24. Builder's Superstitions.

    "You would be surprised how superstitious some men employed in the building trade are," said an elderly builder's foreman representative. "For instance, it's considered by some a most ...

    Article : 235 words
  25. A FIRST SPEECH.

    A few days afterwards the Scotch gentlemen assisted at another ceremony—the formal assumption of the Government—when the troops were drawn up in line at the Grand Parade, and ...

    Article : 314 words
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