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- Prisoner Steward.-- Spaniel and Blackfish.--Aborigines.-Kelp.- Lichen. ---
Birds..
CHAPTER V.
47
Report to the Lieutenant Governor.- Thanksgiving.-Death of a Pensioner.----
War.-Clarence Plains.-Hospitality.--Government Schools.--Chain-gang. -
Scorpion. Centipedes.--Muddy Plains.---Settlers.-South Arm.-Liberty.--
Kangaroo. Box and Cow Fishes.--Illicit Spirit Dealer.-Princess Royal
Stranded.--Snow Storm. Richmond. --Trees.- Imported Fruit-trees.-New
Houses. Bush-rangers.-Security.--Meeting.--Coal River.-Settlers.--Oven
Hills. Orielton.-Wages paid at Public Houses.-Sorell Town.-Windmill.
---Rich Land.-Temperance Meeting.--Lower Settlement.-Sober Anglo-
Tasmanians.View.-Spring.-Birds, &c.-Anniversary of Departure from
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England.
CHAPTER VI.
Attendance of Meetings.--Religious Communications.-Embarkation for Flinders
Island.-Cape Roaul.-Port Arthur.--Perilous Situation.-Cape Pillar.—
Birds.-Maria Island. Spring Bay.-Prisoner Scaman.--Octopodia.- Frey-
cinets Peninsula.-Trees, &c.-Black Swans.-Schouten Passage.- Mutton
Birds.--Swan Island.---Banks's Strait.--Superstition of Sailors.--Wreck.—
Preservation Island.--Scalers and Native Women.-Black Snakes.---Green
Island...
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CHAPTER VII,
Discovery of Van Diemens Land. Its Position and Character.-Aborigines.-
Erroneous Ideas of.-Attack upon.-Provocations.-Hostilities of.--Attempt
to Capture.-G. A. Robinson's Mission.-Settlement in Bass's Straits.--Flin-
ders Island.-Productions.-Manners of the Natives.-Dances.-Civilization.
-Sealer and Child.-Break winds.-Song.-Clothing.-Capacity.--Ornaments.
-Sickness. Birds, &c.-Excursion.-Cookery.-Dogs.-Mangroves.-- Kan-
garoo Rat. Bandicoot.--Rain.-Commandant's Hut.-" Boatswain," a Na-
tive Woman.-Scalers.--Tasmanian Porcupine.--Wallowing in Ashes.-Gra-
titude.--Weapons.--Green Island.--Mutton Birds.-Music.-Tide-ripple.--
Arrival at George Town.....
CHAPTER VIII.
78
Mecting.-Aborigines.-
George Town.-The Tamar River.- Launceston.
Plants. Leeches.-Kangaroos.--Middle Arm.-Tide Ripple.-North Coast.
-Blacks charged with Murder.-Mode of Transferring Fire.-Black Women
Rescued.--Circular Head.-Van Diemens Land Company's Establishment.-
Islands. Woolnorth.-Rocks.-Capc Grim.-Bird Islands.-Kelp.-Mutton
Fish. Native Doctor.-Secking a Needle.-Decoration.-Remembrance of
Absent Friends.-Habitations.-Tribes.-Burning the Dead.. 95
CHAPTER IX.
Circular Head.-Anchorage.-Highfield Plain.-Work People.-Indentured Ser-
vants-Flagellation.-Eagles.--Sponges.-Shells-Crabs.-Weather.-Ants.
-Journey.-Rivers.-Grass-trees.-Blandfordia.-Banksia serratifolia.-Hu-
man Bones.-Scrub and Fern.-Fossil Shells.-Table Capc.-Trees, &c.-Emu
Bay. Magnificent Forest.-Gigantic Trees.-Tree Ferns.-Plains.--Abori-
gines. Road.--Arrival at the Hampshire Hills..
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CHAPTER X.
Hampshire Hills. Plants.-Burning the Grass, &c. Surrey Hills. St. Marys
Plain.- Shrubs. Excursion to Emu Bay. Rocks. Gigantic Trees.---Man
Lost. Dense Forest.-Aborigines. St. Valentines Peak.-- Animals.-Hos-
tile Natives.-Edible Fungi.-Native Potato.- Measurement of Trees.-Ex
ploratory Ramble.-Skill of Aborigines.--Myrtle Forest.--Animals.-Com-
pass.-Attack upon the Aborigines.- Leeches. Dense Forest.-Cataract.-
Free Servants. Reckless Drunkenness.-Quantity of Rain.-Snow. -Bur-
leigh. Black Bluff.--Vale of Belvoir.-Epping Forest.-Snakes.—“Great
Western Road."-- Forth and Mersey Rivers -Circular Pond Marshes.---
Burning Forest.-Caverns.--Dairy Plains.-Westbury.-Depravity.—Arrival
at Launceston..
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CHAPTER XI.
Religious
Launceston. Foolish Washerwoman.- Lizard and Grasshopper.
Meetings.--Perth.-- Norfolk Plains.---Wheat Crops ---Rioter.-Lake and Mac-
quarie Rivers.-Summer Snow.-- Hummocky Hills. --Profanity. --Campbell
Town and Ross.-Salt Pan Plains.-Oatlands. Jericho. The Jordan.-
Cross Marsh.-Green Ponds.--Constitution Hill.-Bagdad.-Blistered Feet.
- Rate of Walking.-Hobart Town...
CHAPTER XII.
131
Hobart Town.-Lieutenant Governor.-Penal Discipline.-- Reformed Prisoners.
-Intemperance and Indiscretion.--Sheriff's Writs.-Timber-fellers.-- Meeting
Room Engaged. -Meeting.-Journey. -Anxiety for Liberty.-Infidel Prison-
ers.-Brushy Plains.--Prisoner's View of Transportation.-Prossers River.-
Spring Bay. Kangaroo Grass. - Swan Port.-Cultivated Land.- Oyster Bay
Pine. Road. Kelvedon.- Waterloo Point --Gunnia australis.--Ministry of
F. C.-Character of the Land. - Shrubs.-Black Swans.--Boomer Kangaroo.
-St. Patricks Head.-Dwelling.-Timber. Whales.- Mountains.-Tea.—-
Break o'day Plains.- "Dead Mens Graves."- Buffalo Plains.--Kindness of
Aborigines. Launceston.- Flinders Blacks.-Road Party.-Flagellation.-
Weather. Discases.-Death of a Prisoner.-Intemperance.-Music.-Spring.
- Ben Lomond.-Gums.-Fossil Tree. --Salt Springs.-Eagles.--Trees.. 137
CHAPTER XIII.
Meeting for Discipline Established.--Meetings for Worship.-Temperance Lec-
ture.--Flagellation.--Causes of Crime.-Judicial Oaths. Peculiaritics of
Friends. Chain Gang.-Unsteady Emigrant.--Ascent of Mount Wellington.
-Notice of a Pious Prisoner.
CHAPTER XIV.
154
Second Visit to Flinders Island.-West Coast Aborigines.-Dislike to Fat.-
Emigrants.-Bruny Island.-Port Arthur.-Guard of Dogs, &c.- Discipline.—
Diving of Native Women.-Shainrock Stranded.-Flinders Island --Planting
Potatoes. Difference.-Civilization.- Grass-tree Plains.-Prime Seal Island.
- Spears.--Climbing Trees.--Comparative Skill.-Mustering.-Cleanliness.-
Catechist.-Light-house.-Bush-rangers.--Launceston.
CHAPTER XV.
165
Launceston. Meetings.-Pious Prisoner.-Improvements.- Aborigines' Mer-
chandise. Mecting at George Town. Rambles. York Town.-- Trout.
Voyage. Flinders Island. Kangaroo Apple.-Greeting.-Distribution of
Clothing.-Native Chicf.-Fire.--Notions of Supernatural Influence, and a
Future Existence.-Departure from Flinders Island.-Intemperance.-Cutter
driven upon the Rocks. Recklessness.-Dangerous Situation.-Arrival at
Kelvedon.. 176
CHAPTER XVI.
Kelvedon. -Meetings.—Soldier Injured.-- Papal Penance.—Animals Poisoned.—
Instinct. Use of Spirits in Whaling, &c.- Toad-fish.-The Saddle.-Eastern
Marshes. Dead Trees.-Farm.- Settler and his Flock.- Sheep Lands.—
Opossums. Meetings at Oatlands and Jericho.-Sheep and Wool.-Native
Cat.-Dairy Farm-Vale of the Jordan.-Platypus.--Black Brush.-The
Carlton. Visiters Inns.-Temperance Reformation.- Richmond.-Jerusa-
lem.-Drought.-Parrots.-Green Ponds.-Settlers.-Invalid Road Party.-
Mill.-New Norfolk.-Meetings.-Forlorn Prisoner.-Pious Settler.-Prison-
ers at Bridgewater.-Return to Hobart Town.-Indisposition.....
CHAPTER XVII.
185
Hobart Town.- Mecting Places.--Discontinuance of Reading Meetings.-Week-
day Meetings. Ministers.-Meetings to which the Public were Invited.—
Prayer. Principles of Friends.-Base-line.-Perjury.-Prisoner Boy.--Grass-
tree Hill.-Esculent Vegetables.-Silent Meetings.-Flagellation.--Monthly
Meetings. Reflections.-Report on Chain Gangs and Road Partics.--Traffic
of the Blacks." Guide to True Peace."-Colonial Hospital.-J. Johnson.—
Orphan School.-Penitentiary... 195
CHAPTER XVIII.
Browns River. Potatoes. -Cordage-trees.-Hobart Town Jail.-Meetings.--
Baptism.-Condemned Criminals.-- Ministry.- Comparison of the Stock-
keepers with the Sons of Jacob.- Musk Rat.- Convincement by Reading
"Barclay's Apology."-Ministry.-Kangaroo Hunter.-Naming of Places in
Van Diemens Land.-Penguins.-Albatross.-Morepork.-Delay.-Ministry
of G. W. W.-Penitent Prisoner.-Trying Occurrences.-Seven-mile Beach.
-Holothuridæ.-Drunken Prisoners, &c. -Awkward Travelling.—Arrival at
Kelvedon.-Fruit Trees.-Black Swans.-Arrival of D. and C. Wheeler.-
Coralines, &c.-Cranes.-Track Lost.- Return to Hobart Town........ 205
CHAPTER XIX.
Old Johnson.-Prayer.—Spiritual Poverty.-Yearly Meeting.-Meeting at New
Norfolk. Influenza.-- Cold of Mount Wellington.-Mantis.-Sale of Spirits.
- Calumny. Visit to Port Arthur.--Doughboy Island.- Black-backed Gull.
-Commandant bewildered in the Forest.-State of the Penal Settlement.--
Scurvy. Educated Prisoners. School. Employment.-Convict Boys.-Coal
Mine.--Black Snake.-Coal.- Plants.-Return to Hobart Town.-Letter.-
Meetings.-Laws of Primogeniture and Entail.-Pensioners.-Rural Dean.
-Surgeon of the Alligator
CHAPTER XX.
221
Voyage to Sydney.- Cape Howe.-Diversity of Gifts. -Dangerous Situation.-
Port Jackson. Sydney.-Religious Instruction.--Aborigines.-Rock Oysters.
-Brugmansia. -Visit to the Governor.-Projected Visit to Norfolk Island.-
Meetings on Ship-board.-S. Marsden.-New Year's Day.Shrubs.--"Brick-
fielder.”—First Meetings on Shore.—Temperance Meeting.-Works of Crea-
tion. Visit to the Governor, at Parramatta.-Card Playing.-Snake.—
Elizabeth Bay.-Fig-tree and Acrosticum grande.-Peaches.-Plants.-School
Meeting.-Group of Aborigines.-Parasites.-Meeting in the Court-House.-
Luminous Appearances in the Sea.-New Zealand Hostages.-Imposition on
Medical Men. Meeting on Board the Henry Porcher... 230
CHAPTER XXI.
Arrangements for Visiting Norfolk Island.-Departure.-Adverse Winds.-
Shark and Pilot-fish.-Seamen.— Spiritual Navigation.— Jelly-fish.—“ The
Elizabeth" Whaler.-Tropic Bird.-Norfolk Island.-Departure of D. and C.
Wheeler.-Orange Vale.-Oak.-Geology.-Features of the Island.-Norfolk
Island Pine and Tree-fern.-Fruits.-Description of Prisoners.-Assemblies
for Worship.-Jail..
CHAPTER XXII.
245
Norfolk Island.-Kings Town.-Occupation of Prisoners.-Mitigation of Sen-
tence. Freycinetia.-New Zealand Flax.-Agriculture.-Pigeons.—Cats.-
Fly-catchers. Parrots.-Dying Prisoner.-Ansons Bay.-Wistaria?—Ipomoea
pendula." The Sisters" Pines Jasminum gracile.-Lagunea Patersonii.-
Burial of a Prisoner.-Improvement among the Prisoners.-Provisions.-
Sweet Potato.-Profanity.-Perjury.-Madrapores.-Sea Anemonies.-Papal
Prayers. Teaching of the Spirit.
CHAPTER XXIII.
255
Norfolk Island.-Disinclination to receive Religious Instruction. -Prisoners'
Barracks. Iron.-Flagellation.-Overseers.-Sentence to Penal Settlements.
-Sick Prisoners.-Rocks.-Cape Gooseberry.-Palm.-Wood-quest. N. I.
Pines. Roman Catholic Prisoners.-Cleanliness.-Temperature.- Reckless
Prisoner. Felling-gang.- Plants.-The Cascade.-Flora of N. I.- Sugar
Cane. Rum.- Christian Doctrine..... 262
CHAPTER XXIV.
Norfolk Island.-Cave.-Remarkable Shrubs.-Mount Pitt.-Group of Islands.
-Capture of a Parrot.-Marrattia.-Petty Sessions.-Marine Animals.—
Tree-ferns.-Animals.-Visit of Officers to Phillip Island.-Guavas.-True
Church. Return of Officers.-Wild-boar.- Runaway Prisoner.-Religious
Interviews. Luminous Fungus.-Prisoner's History.-Tidings.-Relapses.—
Parting Opportunities.-Penitent Prisoners. -Departure.-Prisoners' Letters.
-Voyage. Storm.-Lord Howes Island.-Portuguese Man-of-War.—Arrival
at Sydney. Disorderly Soldiers..
CHAPTER XXV.
270
Sydney.-Penal Discipline of Norfolk Island Re-modelled.-Epistle to Friends
in Hobart Town.-Meetings.-Unclaimed Property of Deccased Persons.-
Drought. Shrubs.-Thoughtless Young Men.--Conceited Woman.-Prayer
in Spirit.-Australian School Society.-Unworthy Descendants of Friends.-
Blacks Fishing.-Species of Callitris.-Ministry.-Shrubs.-Friends' Books.
-D. and C. Wheeler.-J. Leach.-Consumption.-Meeting at Cooks River.
-Travelling in New South Wales.-Mounted Police.- Meeting at the North
Shore. -Botany Bay.-Dyc-woods, &c. Grass-trec.- Sweet Tea.-Miasmal
Fever...
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Sydney. Meetings Australian Settlers.-Weather.-Zamia.-Vegetable In-
stinct.-Benevolent Society.-Aborigines.-Gospel Labourers.-Temperance
Lectures. Liverpool.-Bible Meeting.-Hospital. - Unsteady Emigrants.-
Work of the Spirit Persevering Prayer.-L. E. Threlkeld. -Invalids from
India. Temperance Committee.-Bible Meeting.-Spring.-Loquat.- Deci-
duous Trees. 293
CHAPTER XXVII.
Journey to Wellington Valley.-Preliminary Arrangements.-Visit to Parra-
matta. Factory.-Orphan School.-Lunatic Asylum.-Kissing Point.—Bush
Fire. Drought.-Schools, &c.-Meetings.-Civilization of the Natives.--
Forest.South Creek.-Dislike of the Blacks to go far from Home.-Penrith.
-Blue Mountains.-Ironed-gangs.-Huts and Caravans of Prisoners.-Wea-
ther-board Hut.-Views.-Cold.-Black Heath.-Mountain Road.-Bullocks.
-Eagles. -Mount Victoria Pass.-Vale of Clywd.-Hellvellyn.-River Oak.
-Junction Stockade. - Honeysuckle Hill. -Drunken Landlord.--Bathurst.—
Drunkenness.--Famine.-The Rocks.-Newton.-Sheep.-Wild Dogs.-Ex-
haustion. Molong River. Birds. Limestone.-Newry.-Welcome.-Stock-
keeper and Blacks.. Sheep-feeding Cottages. - Arrival at Wellington
Valley.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
300
Wellington Valley.-Mission Station.-Worship.-Doctrine.-Mission Stock.-
Aborigines. Morals.-Language.--Aquatic Plants.- Myami.-Honey.-Ani-
mals, Food of the Natives. --Cavern. -Mount Arthur.-Shrubs, &c.-Burial
Place Public Worship of Friends. -European Influence.-Grass.-Initiation
of Blacks as Young Men. - Native Women -Prisoner Servants.-Molong.-
Effects of Drunkenness.-Infanticide.-Feigned Intoxication.-Kangaroo Bay.
-Civilization and Missionary Labours.-Milk.-Help in Time of Need.—
Pious Fellow Traveller.-Definition of Love.-Bathurst.-Verdure...... 315
CHAPTER XXIX.
Bathurst.-Climate of N. S. Wales.-Public Worship.-Doctrine of Baptism.-
Settlers.-Bank.--Prisons.- Woodlands. Geology.-O'Connell Plains.-Spi-
ritual Worship. Fish River.-Dogs and Snakes-Milk.-Prisoners -Shrubs.
-Blue Mountains. - Black Heath.-Govetts Leap.-Awful Death.-Couch
Grass.- Penrith.-Flagellation.-Nepean.-Doctrine.-Vineyard.-Absence of
Dew. Horses destroyed by Thirst.--Nepean River.- Castlereagh. -Windsor.
-Richmond.-Information of a Black. Pitt Town and Wilberforce. - Unfaith-
ful Professor. Pious Persons.-- Temperance Meeting.- Jail.-Religious Meet-
ings.--Currajong.-Country. - Maize and Wheat Crops.- Orange Orchards.-
Return to Sydney...
CHAPTER XXX.
331
Opening of Friends' Meeting House, at Sydney.-Voyage to Van Diemens Land.
-Escape from Danger. -Electric Phenomena.-Arrival at Hobart Town.—
State of the Congregation of Friends Yearly Meeting.-Journey to Kelve-
don, Falmouth, Launceston, &c.-Dangerous Riding.- Hunting Cattle.--Gen-
tleness of Bulls.--Accident.- Launceston.-Influence of Strong Drink.--Re-
ligious Attainments. Mounds of Oyster Shells.-Remarkable Tide.- High
Rents. Hospitals. Irrigation. Wesleyaus. Progress of Temperance.-
Return to Sydney..
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