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Hobart Town 1834.
OF
A VISIT
TO THE
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES,
BY
JAMES BACKHOUSE.
ILLUSTRATED BY THREE MAPS, FIFTEEN ETCHINGS
AND SEVERAL WOOD-CUTS.
LONDON:
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. PATERNOSTER ROW,
YORK: JOHN L. LINNEY, LOW OUSEGATE.
Reprinted from a copy in the collections of
The New York Public Library
Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Landmarks in Anthropology, a series of reprints in cultural anthropology General Editor: Weston La Barre
First reprinting, 1967, Johnson Reprint Corporation
Printed in the United States of America
Voyage to Van Diemens Land.-Embarkation.-Emigrant Pensioners.-Dis-
orderly Conduct.-Intemperance.-The Occan.-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 Meeting.—
Departure.-L'Agullas Bank.-Southern Ocean.-Birds.-Religious Labours.
-Coast of Van Diemens Land.-Colour of the Sea.-Piratical Vessel.-Sharks.
--Bad Bay.-Arrival at Hobart Town.
CHAPTER II,
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Hobart Town.-Colonel Arthur.--Intense Sleep.-J. Leach.--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.- Remarkable Rock.-- Porter and Thieving.— Emi-
grants.-Style of Living.-Animals.- Hostile Aborigines. Hospitality.--
Bush-rangers.--She Oak.—Plains.--Remarkable Impression.-Sawyers' Huts.
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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.. 32
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.