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" ... strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished buildings — bear witness to these consequences, and speak of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children perishing by hundreds on a desert... "
The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources - Page 713
by Robert Montgomery Martin - 1850
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Cassell's Emigrants' Handbook ..: To which is Added, A Guide to the Gold ...

Australia - 1852 - 102 pages
...and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished dwellings." The writer proceeds to speak of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children perishing by hundreds on a desert waste from want of food and shelter, and even of water, and surrounded by hordes of angry savages....
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The Story of Our Colonies: With Sketches of Their Present Conditions

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1869 - 444 pages
...this state. The ghastly spectacle of the town-site of Clarence — its sole edifices crowded, buried, and neglected tombs — its only inhabitants corpses,...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of...
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The story of our colonies

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 456 pages
...wrecks—the hills and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished buildings—bear witness to these consequences, and speak of brave...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of...
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History of the Continent of Australia and the Island of Tasmania (1787 to ...

Marcus Clarke - Australia - 1877 - 336 pages
...Colonies"]: — "The ghastly spectacle of the town site of Clarence — its sole edifices crowded, buried and neglected tombs — its only inhabitants corpses,...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of...
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The geography of the colonies

Henry Major - Geography - 1878 - 120 pages
...— its only inhabitants corpses, the victims of disease, starvation and despair — the sea beach strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the...water, and surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. Can we wonder, then, that thousands rushed from such a scene, with the relics of their capital, to...
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History of Australia: From 1787 to 1882

James Allen - Australia - 1882 - 352 pages
...tombs ; its only inhabitants, corpses, the victims of disease, starvation, and despair ; the sea beach strewed with wrecks ; the hills and borders of the...studded with deserted and half-finished buildings, bearing witness to the consequences" of this rash attempt at colonisation — to the folly, to the...
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The Exploration of Australia, Volume 1

Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1895 - 312 pages
...— its only inhabitants corpses, the victims of disease, starvation and despair — the sea beach strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the...these consequences, and speak of brave men, delicate women, and helpless children perishing by hundreds, on a desert coast, from want of food, of shelter,...
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The Building of the British Empire: 1689-1895

Alfred Thomas Story - Great Britain - 1898 - 490 pages
...studded with deserted and half-finished buildings — bears witness to these consequences, and speaks of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children...and surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages." ' Nor was this the blackest of the picture, according to independent accounts. Some, who should have...
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Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks, 1622-1850, Volume 1

Graeme Henderson - Coasts - 2007 - 364 pages
...beach strewn with wrecks — the hills and borders of the rivei studded with deserted and half finished buildings — bear witness to these consequences,...food, of shelter, and even of water, and surrounded b> armed hordes of angry savages. lt were wholly impossible to estimate the vast amount oi property...
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