OF

A VISIT

TO THE

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES,

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JAMES BACKHOUSE.

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Landmarks in Anthropology, a series of reprints in cultural anthropology

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CONTENTS.

Page.

XV

Introduction

CHAPTER I.

Voyage to Van Diemens Land.--Embarkation.--Emigrant Pensioners.-Dis-

orderly Conduct.-Intemperance.-The Ocean.-Bottled Water.-Petrels.-

Coast of Spain.--. Birds.-- Storm.— Danger.- Equator.- Sunset.---Trinidad

and Martin Vaz.--Funeral.-- Whales.--Fishes.--Albatross.-African Coast.-

Cape Town.-Schools.--Slavery.—Public Institutions.---Religious Mecting.-

Departure.-L'Agullas Bank.-Southern Occan.--Birds.---Religious Labours.

--Coast of Van Diemens Land.-Colour of the Sea.-Piratical Vessel.—Sharks.

-- Bad Bay.-Arrival at Hobart Town.

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CHAPTER II,

Hobart Town.-Colonel Arthur.--Intensc Sleep.-J. Lcach ---Unexpected Meet-

ing.– Home.- Meetings for Worship.--The Liberty.--Convict Ship.-Pri-

soners.---Settlement of the Colony.-Female Factory.--Trees.-Animals

Chain-gang.---Woody Hills.- Government Garden.-- Bees.--Assigned Pri-

soners.--New Norfolk.-Bush Road.--The Clyde.-Green Valley.--Bothwell.

-Hamilton.— Fences.- Remarkablc Rock.-- Porter and Thieving.- Emi-

grants.–Style of Living.-- Animals.- Hostile Aborigines.-- Hospitality.--

Bush-rangers.--She Oak.---Plains.--Remarkable Impression. --Sawyers' Huts.

-Inn.

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CHAPTER III.

Hobart Town.—Pious Persons.—- Penitentiary.-Temperance Society.-- Kings

Pits.-Shrubs.-Fern Valley.--School Meeting.- Voyage to Macquarie Har-

bour.—Prison Ship.-- Piracy of the Cypress.:- Prisoners.--Loss of the Science.

-Fish.—Penguin.–Storm.--Port Davey.—Cockatoos.-Land Lobster.-Ex-

cursions.—Sharks.-Swearing.–Storm.--Sea Fowl.---Entrance of Macquarie

Harbour ..

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CHAPTER IV.

Macquarie Harbour.—Mountains.-Trees.-Rivers.-Sarahs Island. - Timber.---

State of Prisoners.--Mortality.--Murders.—Privations.-Escapes.----Cannibal-

ism.-Example.-Punishment.--Reformation.— Pious Prisoner.--Depravity.

---Employment.--Provisions.--Pine-roads.-Phillips Island. ---Ferns.--Health.

--Climate.--Spirits. - Bermuda Prisoners. --Wellington Head. -- Jail Meetings.