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- 10461
- author: Gregory, Francis Thomas
- title: Journals of Australian Explorations
- date: None
- words: 138210
- flesch: 67
- summary: The striking difference there is between this account of the country on the Murchison and that given by Mr. Austin may be accounted for in several ways: first, Mr. Austin does not appear to have crossed, but skirted the country intervening between Mount Welcome and Mount Murchison, but he describes the land about the latter as improving, and found water; while it was the feed and water at Mount Welcome which, in all probability, saved his party from perishing. Several small creeks joined from the south-west, and increased the principal channel considerably.
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- 10840
- author: Favenc, Ernest
- title: The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
- date: None
- words: 93727
- flesch: 72
- summary: As the man of science in a party under a capable leader, Leichhardt would have achieved greater success than many men who have filled that position; as the leader himself he was, of necessity, an absolute failure. His last two journeys had proved the existence of a long line of good country, fairly well-watered; and although beyond it he had not been able to gain a footing, still there was no knowing what a fresh endeavour would bring to light.
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- 11203
- author: King, Philip Parker
- title: Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
- date: None
- words: 109049
- flesch: 64
- summary: CHAPTER 10. Cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, and anchor at Goulburn's South Island. We then bore up and steered through the channel between the islands and the main, which was both narrow and deep towards Channel Point; close to which we had sixteen fathoms, and then hauled up round Peron's South Island.
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- 11400
- author: O'Brien, Frederick
- title: Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
- date: None
- words: 152938
- flesch: 79
- summary: She had been loved by many white men, men of distinction here; sea-rovers, merchants, and lotus-eaters, writers, painters, and wastrels. He ran away from a mess of love pottage that many men would have gone across seas to gain.
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- 11933
- author: Earle, Augustus
- title: A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
- date: None
- words: 57861
- flesch: 62
- summary: We accepted the chieftain's offer, and several other natives joined the party to bear us company. Toi and his party arrived first at Waima, where he found Patuone and all the natives and other chiefs of our district.
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- 12046
- author: King, Philip Parker
- title: Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2
- date: None
- words: 169154
- flesch: 71
- summary: We were underweigh before six o'clock the next morning, and after steering by the wind for a short time towards the southward (on which course the tide being against us we were making no progress) bore up with the intention of hauling round the point to leeward for anchorage, whence we might examine the place by the means of our boats, and wait for more favourable weather; but upon reaching within half a mile of the point we found that a shoal communication extended across to a string of islands projecting several miles to sea in a West-North-West direction: in mid channel the sea was breaking, and from the colour of the water it is more than probable that a reef of rocks stretches the whole distance across the strait; but this appearance, from the experience we afterwards had of the navigation of this part, might have been produced by tide ripplings, occasioned by the rapidity of the stream, and by its being contracted in its passage through so narrow a pass; it was however too doubtful and dangerous to attempt without having some resource to fly to in the event of accident. Six miles south of Caffarelli Island, is a rocky island, surrounded by a reef; and eight miles farther are several small rocky islands, forming the north extremity of a range, which, extending to the South by East for ten miles, form the eastern side of Sunday Strait, which is the best, and in fact the only safe communication with the deep opening between Point Cunningham and the islands to the eastward.
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- 12115
- author: Stokes, John Lort
- title: Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.
- date: None
- words: 136972
- flesch: 69
- summary: Not more poetically beautiful than literally true are the words of the Psalmist, so appropriately introduced into the Form of Prayers at Sea--They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters: these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep: for at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof. Many small islands are dispersed over the sea in front of this promontory, and partake of its character, being apparently the tops of mountains thrusting themselves up from the deep, and suggesting the belief that new countries are about to be disclosed.
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- 12146
- author: Stokes, John Lort
- title: Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea
- date: None
- words: 149039
- flesch: 70
- summary: A shout from Brown, who, alarmed at my lengthened absence, had come in search of me, roused me from the reverie in which I was indulging, and which had carried me rolling along on the back of a camel, girded round with an anti-pleurisy belt, over many miles of the new lands of Australia. This was still the more a subject of deep regret, because the present width, and the south-easterly direction which the river now appeared to take, gave me just hopes that great progress might be made in the desired direction in the course of another day: while I felt satisfied that we were abandoning the course of a river whose undiminished magnitude made each mile's journey along its banks of increased interest, and which I felt convinced would, if followed out, conduct us far towards the heart of this terra incognita.
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- 12411
- author: Reeves, William Pember
- title: The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
- date: None
- words: 106567
- flesch: 72
- summary: The author of _Old New Zealand_ tells of an unlucky slave who unwittingly ate the remains of a chiefs dinner. [Illustration: THE CURVING COAST Photo by HENRY WRIGHT] One first-rate boon New Zealand colonists had--good health.
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private; process; progress; prohibition; property; protection; provinces; provincial; public; punishment; purchase; quality; queen; question; race; rangi; rank; rate; rauparaha; ready; reason; red; regular; regulations; remarkable; representatives; repulsed; respect; result; return; revenue; rich; right; rise; rising; river; road; ropata; rotorua; rough; round; ruatara; rule; run; running; rush; sacred; sailors; sale; savages; scene; scenery; school; schooner; sea; seamen; seas; second; self; selwyn; sense; series; servants; service; settlement; settlers; sharp; sheep; ship; shore; shortland; shot; sick; sides; single; sir; size; skill; slain; slaves; small; snow; social; society; soil; soldiers; solitary; sort; soul; south; south island; southern; spear; special; speech; spirits; spot; spread; stand; standing; state; station; stewart; stockade; stone; story; straits; strange; streams; strength; striking; strong; study; subject; success; successful; sudden; sufficient; sunshine; superior; supply; surf; surville; swainson; sydney; system; tall; tapu; taranaki; tasman; tattooed; tattooing; tauranga; tax; territory; thames; thanks; things; think; thompson; thought; thousands; timber; time; title; town; tracts; trade; traders; trading; traveller; treasury; treaty; trees; tribal; tribe; troops; troubles; true; truth; turn; unhappy; unions; unknown; upper; useful; vain; valleys; valuable; value; vengeance; vessels; view; village; visit; vogel; volume; vote; voyage; wages; waharoa; waikato; waitara; waka; wakefield; wanganui; want; war; warfare; warriors; wars; water; way; ways; weapons; weeks; wellington; west; western; whalers; whaling; whero; white; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; william; wind; winter; women; wood; wool; words; work; workers; working; workmen; world; worst; wounded; writer; writing; wrong; years; young; zealand company
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- 12433
- author: MacGillivray, John
- title: Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. — Volume 1 Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition.
- date: None
- words: 106738
- flesch: 69
- summary: In the fresh water I observed several small species of Cyprinidae rising at flies, but, not being provided with the requisite tackle, none were caught. SHELLS. Cells small adnate, projecting suddenly at top, and much contracted at the mouth.
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- 12525
- author: MacGillivray, John
- title: Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. — Volume 2 Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition.
- date: None
- words: 98076
- flesch: 76
- summary: While travelling inland a man was always obliged to walk before the carts, to cut down small trees. I proceeded along the edge of a mangrove swamp for a short distance, and entered a freshwater swamp about a mile from the beach, covered with very thick scrub, composed of large trees of the genus Melaleuca, running for the most part from forty to fifty feet high.
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- 12565
- author: King, Philip Gidley
- title: An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King.
- date: None
- words: 258047
- flesch: 57
- summary: Here it soon became evident that he had not the industry necessary for a _bona fide_ settler, and that, instead of cultivating his own ground, he lent himself to his neighbours, who were to repay his labour by working for him at a future day. The beef was small and lean, and sold at about two-pence halfpenny _per_ pound: mutton was in proportion still smaller, and poultry dear, but not ill-tasted.
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- 12668
- author: Collins, David
- title: An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 An Account Of The English Colony In New South Wales, From Its First Settlement In 1788, To August 1801: With Remarks On The Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. Of The Native Inhabitants Of That Country. To Which Are Added, Some Particulars Of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. Of Lieutenant-Governor King; And An Account Of The Voyage Performed By Captain Flinders And Mr. Bass.
- date: None
- words: 114999
- flesch: 58
- summary: The shore here, as in many other parts of the river, exhibited signs of internal or subterraneous disturbance. The man who had met with the supercargo was sent in the whale boat, and they proceeded to the spot which Mr. Clarke had described as that where they had lost sight of their companions; but, after a long search, they could only find some trifling articles, which were known to have been in their possession; and, these being bloody, it was conjectured that they had been killed in this very helpless condition by the natives, whom, in the course of their long march, they had found frequently very kind, and at other times extremely savage.
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- 12928
- author: Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone)
- title: Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales
- date: None
- words: 130057
- flesch: 75
- summary: The lower ground seemed to undulate, but no part of it was intersected by open plains or any lines of large river trees indicating the permanent existence of water. We next traced the course of the river westward for about five miles, being guided by the line of river trees.
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- 12929
- author: Flinders, Matthew
- title: A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner
- date: None
- words: 175131
- flesch: 68
- summary: At half-past six, when we hauled off for the night, the shore was five or six miles distant; the furthest part bore N. N. E. ½ E., and a bluff inland mountain was set at N. 71° W., over the top of the front ridge. At four o'clock, the wind blew strong at south-east, with thick weather, and they anchored in 9 fathoms, blue mud; having made a course of E. N. E. nearly parallel to the coast.
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- 12992
- author: Becke, Louis
- title: The Naval Pioneers of Australia
- date: None
- words: 71314
- flesch: 64
- summary: There were eleven sail altogether: the _Sirius_, frigate, the _Supply_, tender, six transports, and three storeships. _
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- 13033
- author: Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone)
- title: Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales
- date: None
- words: 143005
- flesch: 73
- summary: Passing through a thick scrub I observed another line of river trees, but I penetrated their shades with no better success than before. The country which I had seen this day beyond Mount Hope was too inviting to be left behind us unexplored; and I therefore determined to turn into it without further delay, and to pursue the bearing of 215 degrees from North as the general direction of our route, until we should fall in with the line of river trees before mentioned.
- keywords: aborigines; abrupt; absence; abundance; abundant; acacia; accessible; accompanying; accomplished; account; acutis; adjacent; advance; afternoon; air; ana; angles; animal; anxious; apice; appearance; appendix; approach; april; arms; arrival; ascend; aspect; assistance; attention; august; australia; aware; axillaribus; bank; banksia; bark; barnard; barney; barometer; barren; base; basin; bay; bearing; beautiful; bed; benanee; bend; berg; best; better; birds; black; blocks; blue; boat; body; bogan; boggy; bold; bones; boone; bore; box; brackish; branches; breadth; break; breccia; brevioribus; broad; broken; brown; bullocks; buree; burnett; bushes; calcareous; callitris; calycibus; camp; cape; capitulis; captain; carabine; care; carriage; carts; case; casuarinae; cattle; cavern; caves; centre; certain; chain; change; channel; chapter; character; chief; child; children; circular; circumstance; clay; clear; cliffs; close; clouds; coast; cold; colony; colour; coloured; common; communication; 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- 13121
- author: Flinders, Matthew
- title: A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner
- date: None
- words: 189573
- flesch: 60
- summary: At half past five we came to, in 26 fathoms sand and shells, having reefs from S. by E., round by the east and north, to W. by S.; but there were openings at N. N. W. ½ W. and N. E. by E., and we had the pleasure to see high breakers, five or six miles distant in the latter direction. In standing N. W. by W. we crossed a bank in 11 fathoms, and on tacking, passed another part of it with only 5; the water upon it was not discoloured, nor had it been observed either by captain Cook, or by me in the Norfolk: it lies about 6 miles W. N. W. from the end of Break-sea Spit.
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- 13222
- author: Nordhoff, Charles
- title: Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
- date: None
- words: 102642
- flesch: 71
- summary: In the Napa and Sonoma valleys, in the foot-hills of the Sierra, at Anaheim and elsewhere in the southern country, you may find many men cultivating the grape and making wine in all soberness. The features are thus horribly deformed in many instances; I saw two or three young boys of twelve who looked like old men of sixty.
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- 13248
- author: McKinlay, John
- title: McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
- date: None
- words: 72675
- flesch: 75
- summary: On the south-south-easterly course; at one and three-quarter miles crossed deep rocky creek with a little rainwater and very steep banks; at three and a quarter miles passed a lagoon, more lagoons off to the south-west under the low ridges; at six miles crossed a small oak creek from south-west by west; at seven and three-quarter miles crossed small good creek with plenty of water from south-west by west. Bearing 95 1/2 degrees, open forest with spinifex; at 10.30 crossed small creek (dry); at 10.45 crossed small sandy creek (dry) water on the right; at 11.30 watered horses and then crossed creek from west-south-west to east-north-east, small creek from south joins close by; at 1.25 crossed creek with water; at 2.12 crossed sandy creek from north-east to south and another close by, then scrub and rather thick forest till 5.50, then camped no water; distance about twenty-six and a half to twenty-seven miles.
- keywords: a.m.; abundance; adelaide; afternoon; animals; appearance; april; arrival; banks; bearing; bears; beautiful; bed; bell; best; better; black; box; breeze; broad; bullocks; burdekin; burke; burning; camels; camp; camped; cart; changed; close; cloudy; cold; coming; considerable; cool; cooper; country; couple; course; creek; creek north; crossed; crossing; dark; daylight; days; dead; deal; december; deep; deep creek; degrees; degrees east; depot; desert; dew; difficult; direction; distance; doubt; drainage; dry; dry creek; drying; east; east course; east end; easterly; eastern; eastward; eighth miles; end; esquire; etc; evening; excellent; extensive; far; february; feed; feet; fine; fire; fish; flats; flooded; food; foot; forest; fresh; friday; fruit; getting; good; grass; grassed; great; green; gum; gums; half miles; heat; heavy; high; hills; hodgkinson; hope; horses; hot; immense; inches; innumerable; january; journey; july; june; kind; kirby; lagoon; lake; land; large; large creek; late; leave; left; like; little; little east; little water; long; looking; lots; low; main creek; making; man; march; marked; mass; meat; men; middleton; miles; miles distant; miles north; minutes; monday; morning; mount; myall; natives; near; new; new south; nice; night; north; north end; northward; november; number; oak creek; october; old; open; opposite; p.m.; palmer; party; passing; peak; place; plains; plenty; point; poole; poor; pounds; present; pretty; purpose; quantity; quarter miles; quarters; quartz; rain; range; ready; return; ridges; river; rocky; rough; round; running; salt; sandhills; sandstone; sandy; sandy creek; saturday; saw; search; seen; sheep; short; sides; sky; slopes; small; small creek; south; south end; south half; southward; spinifex; splendid; start; stones; stony; stream; strong; sufficient; sunday; sunset; supply; swamp; table; temperature; thursday; tier; timber; timbered; time; today; tomorrow; topped; tops; tracks; travelling; trees; tributary; tuesday; use; vast; view; visible; want; water; watercourse; way; weather; wednesday; west; westward; white; wide; wind; wind east; wind south; wind west; wooded; yards; yesterday
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- 13760
- author: Craik, George Lillie
- title: John Rutherford, the White Chief: A Story of Adventure in New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 56112
- flesch: 62
- summary: Tooi, however, replied sharply, that it was no gammon at all; adding, New Zealand man say that Mr. Marsden's _crackee crackee_ (preaching) of a Sunday is all gammon, in indignant retaliation for the insult that had been offered to his national customs. In the course of this day, many other chiefs arrived at the village, accompanied by their families and slaves, to welcome Aimy home, which they did in the usual manner.
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- 14384
- author: O'Brien, Frederick
- title: White Shadows in the South Seas
- date: None
- words: 126109
- flesch: 82
- summary: That brave African soldier was ever dramatic, and _D'Artagnan_ could not have struck a finer attitude as he thrust the gun in my face and called out, _Halte là_! Fifty thousand Marquesans have died to bring peace to the soul of that _corvette_ commander who so jauntily flourished his cane in the faces of the wondering savages.
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- 14424
- author: Barrow, John, Sir
- title: The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
- date: None
- words: 99199
- flesch: 60
- summary: In the case of wrecks, where the lord of the coast (something like our present vice-admiral) should be found to be in league with the pilots, and run the ships on rocks, in order to get salvage, the said lord, the salvers, and all concerned, are declared to be accursed and excommunicated, and punished as thieves and robbers; and the pilot condemned to be hanged upon a high gibbet, which is to abide and remain to succeeding ages, on the place where erected, as a visible caution to other ships sailing thereby. Mr. Bligh replied, Yes, you d---- d hound, I do--you must have stolen them from me, or you would be able to give a better account of them; then turning to the other officers, he said, God d---- n you, you scoundrels, you are all thieves alike, and combine with the men to rob me: I suppose you will steal my yams next; but I'll sweat you for it, you rascals--I'll make half of you jump overboard, before you get through Endeavour Straits.
- keywords: able; accomplished; account; adams; admiralty; advice; affectionate; alas; allowance; amiable; answer; anxiety; anxious; appearance; armed; arms; arrival; articles; assistance; attempt; attention; bad; banks; bay; beechey; behaviour; beloved; best; black; bligh; board; boat; boatswain; body; book; bosom; bounty; boy; bread; brother; burkitt; business; byrne; cabin; canoes; captain; captain bligh; care; carpenter; case; certain; character; charge; charles; chest; chief; children; christian; churchill; circumstances; clear; close; clothes; coast; cocoa; cold; coleman; commander; common; companions; company; concerned; condition; conduct; confinement; consequence; constant; contrary; conversation; cook; countenance; country; course; court; crew; crime; cutlass; cutter; danger; daughter; day; days; dear; dearest; death; deck; deep; defence; degree; description; desire; destruction; determined; different; difficulty; dinner; discovery; distance; distress; divine; doubt; dreadful; duty; early; earth; edwards; effect; ellison; endeavour; england; english; equal; escape; evening; event; evidence; example; excellent; expected; experienced; express; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; fact; family; fatal; fate; father; favour; fear; feeling; feet; finding; fine; fire; fish; fletcher; following; food; force; free; fresh; friend; friendly; friendship; fruit; fryer; future; general; gentleman; george; god; good; graham; great; greatest; guard; guilty; gunner; half; hallet; hands; happiness; happy; hayward; head; health; heart; heywood; high; history; hitherto; hogs; hold; home; honour; hope; hour; house; idea; inches; india; information; informed; innocence; innocent; instance; intelligence; intention; interesting; irons; island; islanders; isle; james; john; joseph; journal; joy; judge; justice; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; known; labour; lady; language; large; late; launch; leave; left; length; letter; lieutenant; lieutenant bligh; life; like; little; lives; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; m'intosh; majesty; man; manner; march; martial; martin; master; mate; matthew; means; melancholy; men; mercy; midshipman; midst; miles; millward; mind; miserable; misery; moment; months; morning; morrison; mother; mutineers; mutiny; narrative; natives; nature; near; necessary; nessy; new; night; norman; notice; number; nut; nuts; object; occasion; ocean; october; officers; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; otaheitan; otaheite; pain; pandora; particular; party; passage; past; people; period; permission; person; peter; piece; pipon; piracy; pitcairn; place; plantains; plants; pleasure; point; poor; population; possible; power; present; preservation; principal; prisoners; proper; providence; provisions; punishment; purpose; quantity; quarter; question; quintal; rain; ready; real; reason; reef; regard; relief; request; resolution; respect; rest; return; round; rum; running; safe; said; sail; salt; satisfaction; satisfied; saw; scene; sea; seaman; search; second; sense; sentence; september; service; set; ship; shore; simple; simplicity; single; sir; sister; situation; sixteen; sleep; small; smith; society; sole; sorrow; soul; spirits; state; stay; stern; stewart; stones; story; strong; subject; sufferings; sufficient; sun; supply; support; surgeon; suspicion; tender; terms; testimony; things; thirst; thomas; thompson; thought; thy; time; timor; transaction; treatment; tree; trial; true; trust; truth; trying; uncle; unfortunate; unhappy; use; useful; usual; utmost; vain; vessel; view; visit; voyage; waldegrave; wallis; want; watch; water; way; weather; west; wet; wife; william; wind; wished; women; words; work; world; worse; yams; years; young; youth
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- 15100
- author: Phillip, Arthur
- title: The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)
- date: None
- words: 73827
- flesch: 65
- summary: July, 1785 7 Jacobs, David London 20 Oct. 1784 7 Jacobs, John Ditto 21 April, 1784 7 Jackson, Hannah Bristol 27 July, 1785 7 Jameson, James Jackson, Jane, alias Esther Roberts London 29 June, 1785 7 Jackson, Mary Ditto 20 August, 1786 7 Jeffries, Robert Devizes 5 April, 1785 7 Jefferies, John Maidstone 11 July, 1785 7 Jenkins, Robert, alias Brown Ditto 13 March, 1786 7 Jepp, John London 10 Jan. 1785 7 Munroe, John, alias Nurse London 21 April, 1784 7 Mullis, Stephen Exeter 12 Jan. 1785 7 Murphy, James 7 Munro, Lydia Kingston 2 April, 1787 14 Mullens, Hannah London 10 Jan. 1787 Life Nettleton, Robert Kingston upon Hull 12 October, 1784 7 Newland, John London 21 April, 1784 7 Neal, John Ditto 26 May, 1784 7 Neal, James Bristol 10 Feb. 1785 7 Needham, Elizabeth London 19 July, 1786 7 Nicholls, John Ditto 21
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- 15411
- author: Bligh, William
- title: A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies
- date: None
- words: 81583
- flesch: 73
- summary: Other ships that arrived during my stay at the Cape were a French 40-gun frigate, an East India ship, and a brig, of the same nation: likewise two other French ships with slaves from the coast of Mozambique bound to the West Indies: a Dutch packet from Europe, after a four months passage: and the Harpy, a South Sea Whaler with 500 barrels of spermaceti, and 400 of seal and other oils. Many small islands were in sight to the north-east about six miles distant.
- keywords: 25th; able; account; advanced; advantage; afternoon; allowance; anchor; answer; appearance; arms; arrival; attempt; attention; bad; batavia; bay; beach; bearing; best; better; birds; black; board; boat; bore; breadfruit; breakfast; cabin; canoes; cape; captain; care; case; ceremony; chapter; chiefs; children; christian; clear; close; cloth; clothes; coast; coconut; cold; command; common; company; compass; consequence; considerable; continued; convenient; cook; country; coupang; course; cut; danger; dark; day; daylight; days; dead; death; deck; degrees; degrees south; degrees west; departure; determined; different; difficulty; dinner; directions; distance; distant; divided; doubt; dutch; earee; east; eastward; effect; end; endeavour; england; entrance; europe; evening; fair; fathoms; feet; fine; fire; fish; forenoon; fresh; friday; friendly; friends; general; good; governor; grapnel; great; greatest; gunner; half; hands; harbour; head; health; heavy; height; high; hills; hogs; holland; hope; hour; house; iddeah; ill; inches; informed; inhabitants; intended; intention; island; john; kind; king; knowledge; known; landing; large; latitude; launch; leagues; leave; left; length; little; longitude; loss; main; majesty; man; manner; master; matavai; means; men; miles; minutes east; minutes south; minutes west; moannah; moderate; monday; morning; natives; near; necessary; nelson; new; night; noon; noon north; noon west; north; northward; number; o'clock; observations; occasion; officers; old; omai; oparre; open; opportunity; order; oreepyah; otaheite; otoo; oysters; particular; party; passage; past; people; person; piece; place; plants; plenty; poeeno; point; pork; possible; power; prepared; present; principal; proper; provisions; purpose; quantity; quarter; rain; ready; reason; reckoning; reef; remarkable; rest; return; river; road; rocks; round; rum; run; safe; said; sail; sailing; sandy; satisfaction; satisfied; saturday; saw; scarce; sea; search; seconds; service; set; ship; shore; signs; situation; size; sleep; small; society; soundings; south; south latitude; south sea; southward; state; stay; stock; straits; strong; success; sufficient; sunday; sunset; supper; supplies; supply; surgeon; tenerife; teppahoo; tethuroa; things; thought; thursday; time; timekeeper; timor; tinah; today; tofoa; town; trees; tuesday; usual; variable; variation; vessels; visit; voyage; walk; watch; water; way; weather; wednesday; west; west distance; west half; west indies; west longitude; westernmost; westward; wet; white; wife; william; wind; wine; women; wood; yards; year; yesterday; young
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- 15533
- author: Mann, D. D. (David Dickinson)
- title: The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)
- date: None
- words: 41562
- flesch: 45
- summary: Persons having families not to enter on board any colonial vessels, unless provision be made by the owners for their families whilst absent; the owners to find security also to return such persons when their engagement expires. For the want of such persons has, in numerous instances, been very severely felt by those who have had occasion to come into the courts of law.
- keywords: 10s; 50l; account; acres; addition; appearance; arrival; articles; attention; bay; bench; benefit; best; board; boat; body; brick; building; bushel; care; case; cent; chapter; characters; charge; check; chief; children; circumstances; civil; close; clothing; coals; colonial; colony; command; commencement; common; conduct; consequence; considerable; convicts; country; course; court; cove; cows; crown; cultivation; custom; day; days; death; decision; degree; departure; description; destructive; different; difficulty; dispositions; ditto; dozen; duties; duty; east; england; equal; established; establishment; evidence; evil; execution; exertion; existence; expense; extensive; extent; fact; fatal; feet; female; fine; fire; following; forfeiture; free; frequent; future; general; good; government; governor; governor hunter; grain; great; greater; ground; half; hand; hawkesbury; head; hope; horses; house; hunter; idea; improvement; increase; independence; individuals; industry; informer; inhabitants; instances; interests; introduction; island; judge; justice; king; knowledge; known; labour; land; large; late; left; legal; lieutenant; life; little; long; loss; magistrate; maize; majesty; man; march; market; master; means; measures; merchandize; military; mind; month; mother; natives; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; norfolk; notice; number; numerous; object; obvious; occasion; offence; officers; opinion; order; orphans; parramatta; pay; penalty; period; permission; permit; persons; phillip; place; point; port; possible; pounds; power; practice; present; previous; price; principal; principles; prisoners; private; produce; progress; proper; prosperity; provisions; public; punishment; purpose; quantity; quart; rapid; ration; reader; recognizances; reduced; regular; regulations; residence; respectability; respectable; return; right; river; road; security; servants; service; settlement; settlers; sheep; shillings; ship; shore; singular; situation; small; society; south; sown; species; spirits; state; stock; stone; stores; strong; subject; subsequent; sufficient; sum; support; sydney; system; task; time; town; trade; trees; trial; unfortunate; vessels; view; wales; want; water; way; weight; wheat; wild; windows; woods; work; world; years
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- 15602
- author: Wentworth, W. C. (William Charles)
- title: Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America
- date: None
- words: 103623
- flesch: 48
- summary: To this manifest superiority which rivers runningon a meridian claim over those running on a parallel, there is no counterpoise, since they both contain equal facilities for exporting their surplus productions, and receiving in exchange the superfluities of other countries. That this is the system which ought to have been pursued, we have a still more forcible proof in the instance of the United States of America, and of many of the ancient nations of Europe; which, unfettered by any dependence whatever on any foreign power, and having consequently adopted that policy, which has been found the most consistent with their respective interests, have made but very little progress in manufactures, and are therefore still under the necessity of having recourse for manufactured commodities to other countries.
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- 15662
- author: Hunter, John
- title: An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
- date: None
- words: 181892
- flesch: 57
- summary: Right off the harbour lie several small islands, all steep to, or nearly so; a few rocks project a very small distance from some of them, but which cannot be considered dangerous, as no person possessed of common prudence would ever take a ship so near as they lye; within those islands (if you have not wind to carry your ship into the harbour) you may anchor; the best birth for getting under way with any wind, is to bring the island Raz (a low island) to bear south or south half west one mile, in 14 or 15 fathoms water, soft bottom; there is nothing in the way between this anchorage and the harbour; you will observe in the entrance a small island or rock, fortified, called Lage; you sail about mid-channel between this island and Fort Santa Cruz, observing that the tide of flood sets upon Santa Cruz point, and the ebb upon the island; the soundings from the outer anchorage decrease from 14 fathoms, where we lay, regularly, till near abreast of the Sugar-loaf, where it is six and a half fathoms: from this depth you drop into 12, 14, and 16 fathoms. From the Cape to our settlement at Port Jackson, the navigation is now much better known, than it was when the first convoy to that country was left in my charge; it is a plain and easy track; any person who is acquainted with the common rules of navigation, and finding the variations of the compass, may, with the necessary look-out, run across that extensive ocean without danger: I have sailed over it twice, and it has been crossed by many other ships since.
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- 16027
- author: Grey, George, Sir
- title: Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
- date: None
- words: 107674
- flesch: 69
- summary: On my return to the boats I found that Mr. Smith was still unwell; several other men were also complaining; I myself was wearied from exertion and disappointment that my great discovery had dwindled away: the place where we were was infested by land-crabs who kept running over us continually, and the sand which drifted before the wind got into the pores of the skin, and kept most of us in a constant state of painful irritation. Good water and firewood are to be had at most of them; that of Dili is a good and safe one.
- keywords: a.m.; able; absence; account; afternoon; american; anchor; animal; anxiety; anxious; appearance; approach; april; arm; arms; arrival; articles; ascent; attempt; attention; australia; bad; banks; bark; basaltic; base; bay; beach; beagle; beak; beautiful; bed; bernier; best; better; birds; black; blue; board; boat; body; bore; breadth; breakfast; breeze; bright; british; broken; burning; bushes; cape; captain; case; cave; centre; certain; change; chapter; character; circumstances; clear; cliffs; climate; close; coast; cold; coles; colony; colour; coloured; column; coming; common; complete; condition; considerable; constant; continent; continued; corporal; cotton; country; course; covered; cries; cross; cruz; curious; cut; danger; dark; dawn; day; days; dead; deal; december; deep; degrees; delay; departure; depot; depth; descent; description; determined; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; district; dog; dogs; doubt; dry; early; east; eastward; effect; elevated; elevation; elliott; encampment; end; engaged; england; english; entrance; evening; event; examination; exception; excursion; expedition; experienced; exposed; exposure; extensive; extremity; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; far; favourable; february; feed; feeling; feet; female; fertile; figure; finding; fine; fire; flour; following; food; foot; footnote; forest; form; fourth; fresh; fruit; gale; gascoyne; general; george; glenelg; gloomy; good; grass; great; greater; green; grey; ground; gun; half; halt; hand; hanover; hard; head; heat; heavy; height; high; higher; hills; hope; horses; hour; impossible; inches; information; inhabitants; inlet; instance; intention; interior; island; january; journey; kaiber; kangaroo; kind; king; labour; lake; land; landing; language; large; latitude; left; legs; length; leschenault; level; life; lightning; like; line; little; lofty; long; longitude; look; low; lower; lushington; lyell; lynher; main; man; mangrove; manner; march; marked; marshy; means; meeting; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; month; morning; motion; mountains; movements; moving; mud; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; neighbourhood; new; night; north; northern; northward; november; number; numerous; o'clock; obliged; observations; occasion; occupied; old; ones; opening; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; p.m.; paintings; party; pass; passage; path; people; perfect; period; perth; pieces; place; plains; plan; plants; plenty; point; ponies; pony; portion; position; pounds; precipitous; preparations; prepared; present; prince; principal; progress; prospect; provisions; purpose; quantity; race; rain; range; rapid; ravine; ready; regard; regent; regular; remainder; remains; remarkable; report; rest; return; rich; rise; rising; river; road; rocks; roof; root; rose; roti; route; running; ruston; safety; sail; sandhills; sandstone; sandy; santa; savage; scenery; schooner; sea; search; season; second; seen; series; set; shark; sheep; shells; shelter; shore; shot; sides; signs; similar; single; singular; sir; size; slight; small; smaller; smith; soil; somewhat; sort; south; southern; southward; spanish; spear; species; specimen; spot; start; state; stock; stores; strange; stream; strength; strong; subject; sudden; sufficient; summit; sun; sunday; sunset; supply; surf; swan; tableland; tail; temperature; tenerife; tentacula; tents; things; thought; thunder; tide; time; timor; tip; today; torrents; town; tracks; trade; trees; tropical; unable; unknown; upper; use; useful; usual; valley; vegetation; vessel; vicinity; view; violent; volume; voyage; walker; want; water; waves; way; weak; weather; west; western; westward; white; wide; width; wild; wind; women; wooded; work; world; wound; wounded; wretched; yards; years; yesterday; young
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- 16145
- author: Grey, George, Sir
- title: Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
- date: None
- words: 122463
- flesch: 72
- summary: By and bye other natives come gaily trooping in from all quarters: by night they dance and sing, and by day they eat and sleep, and for days this revelry continues unchecked, until they at last fairly eat their way into the whale, and you see them climbing in and about the stinking carcase, choosing tit-bits. I have known many instances of natives who have been almost or quite civilized being compelled by other natives to return to the bush; more particularly girls who have been betrothed in their infancy and who, on approaching the years of puberty, have been compelled by their husbands to join them.
- keywords: abdomen; aborigines; abundance; account; adelaide; afternoon; american; anchorage; animals; annals; answer; antennae; anxious; appearance; appendix; approach; april; arm; arms; articles; assistance; assured; attempt; attention; auger; august; australia; aware; bad; bag; ballar; band; banks; banksia; bark; barnacles; barren; base; bay; beach; bear; bearing; beautiful; bed; belly; beneath; best; better; bibron; birds; black; blackish; blood; blue; boat; bodies; body; boisduval; bone; bore; boyl; branch; breadth; breast; british; broad; broken; brother; brown; brownish; burial; bush; cape; captain; case; cattle; causes; centre; ceremonies; certain; champion; chant; chapter; character; children; chin; circumstances; civilization; civilized; cloak; close; coast; cockatoos; cold; coles; collection; colonies; colony; colour; coloured; coming; common; communication; condition; conduct; conical; connected; consequences; considerable; constant; continent; continued; convinced; cooking; coral; country; course; crabs; cries; crime; cross; curious; customs; cut; cuv; danger; dark; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; degrees; delicate; description; determined; dialect; didelphis; diemen; different; difficulty; digging; direction; discovery; distance; distant; distinct; district; divided; dorsal; doubt; dry; dumeril; duty; early; earth; east; eastward; eating; edge; effect; elevated; elongate; elytra; encampment; end; england; entire; erp; error; esquire; estuary; etc; europeans; evening; event; evidence; evil; expedition; extensive; extent; extreme; extremity; eyes; fabricius; faces; fact; fairfax; fall; families; family; far; father; favourite; fear; feelings; feet; fellows; female; fertile; figure; fin; fine; fire; fish; fixed; flat; flour; following; food; footnote; footsteps; force; forest; form; formation; fresh; freshwater; friends; frogs; funeral; fur; future; gairdner; gelatinous; gen; general; gentleman; genus; geoff; george; good; gould; gouldii; government; governor; grass; grave; gray; great; greater; greatest; green; grey; ground; grubs; guilty; gum; gun; habitat; hairs; half; halmaturus; halting; hand; having; head; heart; heavy; height; high; hills; hind; hinder; history; hitherto; hold; hole; holland; home; hope; horned; horses; horsf; hour; house; hunger; hunting; husband; hut; huts; hutt; hyla; idea; illustration; imbat; important; impossible; inches; individuals; induced; influence; inhabitants; inhabits; insects; instance; institutions; intention; interesting; interior; irregular; island; janthina; journal; journey; july; june; kaiber; kangaroo; kind; king; knowledge; known; labour; language; large; largest; latitude; laws; lead; left; legs; length; lesson; level; life; like; limbs; limestone; line; list; little; living; local; long; longer; longitude; longitudinal; look; lower; macropus; man; manner; march; marches; margin; marked; marriage; married; mass; matter; means; men; mere; miago; middle; miles; mind; minutes; mode; moderate; moment; months; moore; morning; mother; motion; mount; movements; moving; mud; mulligo; museum; mussels; mysterious; names; narrow; nations; natives; natural; nature; near; nearest; necessary; new; new holland; new south; new species; night; north; northern; northward; nostrils; november; number; numerous; nuts; object; oblong; observations; occasion; ochrey; ogilby; old; ones; open; operations; opinion; opossum; opportunity; opposite; order; original; outer; overlanders; page; pair; pale; parallel; paris; particular; parties; party; pass; passing; path; peak; peculiar; peerat; people; perameles; period; peron; peronii; personal; persons; perth; petaurus; phalangista; phascogale; pieces; place; plains; plan; plates; plenty; point; pointed; pools; poor; population; portion; position; possession; posterior; pounds; presence; present; principal; probable; proceedings; produce; productions; progress; prominent; property; province; provisions; prussian; punishment; purpose; quarter; quartz; question; race; range; rapid; red; reef; regard; relative; remainder; remains; remarkable; report; resident; result; return; rich; river; roasted; rock; roe; roots; rounded; route; run; ruston; safety; said; sandhills; sandy; savage; scales; scene; schlegel; scincus; scotophilus; scrub; sea; search; season; second; separate; series; settlement; settlers; shaped; shark; shaw; shell; shellfish; shields; ship; shores; short; shrimp; sides; sign; similar; single; situation; size; skin; sleep; slight; small; smaller; smith; smooth; society; soil; somewhat; songs; sorcerers; sorts; sound; south; south australia; southern; space; spear; species; specimens; spines; spirits; spofforth; spot; spread; start; state; stations; sticks; stiles; stock; stones; straight; strange; stream; strength; strong; subject; subsistence; sufferings; sufficient; sun; superior; superstitious; supply; surface; swam; swan; swimming; system; taalwurt; table; tail; taste; teeth; tell; temperature; tentaculae; thick; thighs; thin; things; thirst; thorax; thought; throwing; tibiae; tide; tiliqua; time; tip; today; toes; topped; total; tracks; tract; traditional; transactions; transparent; transverse; tree; tribe; true; turtle; unable; underside; unknown; upper; upwards; useless; utmost; vain; valley; valve; van; var; varieties; variety; vast; velella; vessel; vicinity; victoria; view; vig; visible; volume; voyage; wales; walker; walking; wandering; want; warrup; water; watercourse; way; weak; wealth; western; western australia; westward; whale; white; whitish; wide; wife; wild; wings; wives; women; woods; word; work; worn; wun; yang; yards; yas; years; yellow; yellowish; yesterday; young; zool
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- 16243
- author: Landsborough, William
- title: Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
- date: None
- words: 68972
- flesch: 76
- summary: so I thought that after the rain of yesterday we could not proceed, but it cleared up between 8 and 9, and at 10.20 we were packed up and started; at 10.45 made one mile north by east to the tree marked Lieutenant Woods with line and broad arrow; at 12 made three miles west to Beames Brook over richly grassed plains slightly wooded with stunted box; at 1.30 made quarter mile south by east where we crossed Beames Brook. We came here today in the following direction: at 1 east-south-east for nine and a quarter miles; 1.40 south-east for one and three-quarter miles on creek; 2.50 south-east for three miles to small creek; 3 south for quarter mile to camp; distance fourteen and a quarter miles.
- keywords: a.m. south; acacia; albert river; allison; altitude; applause; april; arrival; arrow; bank; barcoo river; barkly; barren; basaltic; bearing; bed; best; blacks; bloodwood; bourne; bowen; box; brisbane; broad; burke; cabbage; camp; camp number; camp south; campbell; captain; carpentaria; channel; character; commander; companions; confined; cooper; copy; country; courses; creek; crossing; dark; darling river; days; december; deep; degrees; depot; distance; downs; dry; east bank; east direction; east half; easterly; eastern; eastward; encampment; end; evening; expedition; exploration; explorers; exploring; february; feet; fine; firefly; fisherman; flats; flinders river; flood; following; good; grass; grassed; great; gregory river; ground; gulf; half miles; half north; head; herbert river; high; hill; honour; hope; horses; jackey; january; jemmy; journey; junction; lake; landsborough; large; latitude; leaved; left; left bank; leichhardt river; letter; level; lieutenant; line; little; long; looking; main; march; marked; mckinlay; meeting; melbourne; meridian; messrs; mile east; mile south; mile west; miles distant; miles north; minutes; morning; mount; myall; near; neighbourhood; new south; norman; north; northern; november; number; o'shanassy river; observation; old; opposite; outward; p.m. south; parties; party; path; place; plains; point; pounds; present; previous; quarter east; quarter miles; quarter north; quarter south; quarter west; quarters; queensland; rain; range; reach; rest; return; rich; ridges; right; right bank; river; river country; river depot; river north; route; royal; running; saltbush; sandy; search; seconds; shallow; sheep; shillings; ship; short; similar; sir; small; small creek; society; soil; south australia; south course; south direction; south end; south wales; station; stores; stream; sun; sunday; table; tea; thickly; thomson; thomson river; thought; timbered; time; today; tracks; trees; triodia; undulating; unwooded; victoria; walker; want; warrego river; water; watercourse; waterhole; way; west bank; west half; western; white; wills; wooded; woods; yesterday; young
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- 16349
- author: Dunderdale, George
- title: The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned
- date: None
- words: 118847
- flesch: 80
- summary: Other men, both clerical and lay, followed the lead of the Rev. Mr. Marsden. Other men from the Highlands failed to win the smiles of fortune in Gippsland.
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- 16664
- author: Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
- title: Town Life in Australia
- date: None
- words: 72373
- flesch: 64
- summary: And here let me note that in Melbourne houses are certainly more expensively, and perhaps better furnished than in any of the other towns. Passengers by ocean-going vessels to Melbourne land either at Sandridge or Williamstown, small shipping towns situated on either side of the river Yarra, which is only navigable by the smaller craft.
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- 17022
- author: Collingridge, George
- title: The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.
- date: None
- words: 28247
- flesch: 73
- summary: It appears certain, however, that Grijalva visited many islands on the north coast of New Guinea, and one, in particular, called _Isla de los Crespos_, Island of the Frizzly Heads, at the entrance of Geelvinck Bay, near which a mutiny occurred, and Grijalva was murdered by his revolted crew. On their way from the west coast of North America to the Philippines, they discovered many islands in the North Pacific Ocean; among others the Hawaiian Group, visited many years after by Cook, and named by him the Sandwich Islands.
- keywords: able; account; afternoon; america; anchor; anchorage; arms; arrows; attempt; australia; bay; better; black; board; boats; bows; boys; brigantine; canoes; cape; captain; certain; chapter; charts; chief; coast; colour; command; continent; copies; country; course; crew; cruz; date; day; days; del; description; direction; discoveries; discovery; distance; doubt; earliest; early; east; entrance; espiritu; expedition; extensive; fact; features; fine; fish; fleet; following; france; french; fresh; fruits; good; grande; great; group; guinea; half; head; hebrides; high; hills; hope; houses; importance; inhabitants; inhabited; islands; java; jave; kind; king; knowledge; known; large; latitude; launch; leagues; leaves; left; length; line; little; loaysa; long; magellan; major; map; maps; means; mendana; modern; moluccas; moresby; mountains; muskets; names; natives; near; necessary; new; new guinea; night; north; northern; numerous; object; ocean; old; open; order; original; pacific; palms; party; passage; pedro; people; period; peru; philippines; pigs; pilot; place; pleasant; point; portuguese; position; possession; present; queiroz; reach; reefs; return; ribero; river; rocks; round; saavedra; said; sail; san; santa; sarmiento; search; seas; shape; ships; shores; signs; size; small; solomon; south; southern; spain; spaniards; spanish; spice; spice islands; straits; strange; subject; sweet; taumaco; term; things; thought; time; timor; torres; trees; understood; use; vessels; volcano; voyage; want; war; water; way; western; wind; wood; work; world; years
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- 17694
- author: Chalmers, James
- title: Adventures in New Guinea
- date: None
- words: 46306
- flesch: 83
- summary: It is to be hoped that future generations of New Guinea natives will not rise up to condemn her, as the New Zealanders have done, and to claim their ancient rights with tears now unheeded. It is painfully significant to find that the only field in which New Guinea natives have shown much skill and ingenuity is in the manufacture of weapons.
- keywords: a.m.; afraid; afternoon; anchored; anxious; armed; arms; aroma; arrival; astrolabe; attack; bananas; bay; beach; beads; bertha; best; betel; better; board; boat; body; boera; boys; breakfast; bush; camp; cane; canoes; cape; captain; chalmers; chief; children; close; cloth; clubs; coast; cocoanuts; coming; country; crowd; cut; day; days; dead; deep; degrees; delena; determined; distance; district; dressed; early; east; eastern; evening; excited; fear; feathers; feet; fellow; fighting; fine; fire; following; food; foreigners; friendly; friends; getting; glad; god; goldie; good; government; great; guinea; half; hand; hard; head; high; hill; hold; home; hoop; hope; hours; house; hula; iron; island; kabadi; kalo; kerepunu; kind; known; kone; landing; large; laroki; lawes; leaving; left; level; like; little; living; lolo; long; look; looking; mainland; maka; making; man; mayri; mcfarlane; men; meroka; miles; mission; missionaries; moresby; morning; motumotu; mountain; mrs; munikahila; murray; natives; near; new; news; night; north; number; old; open; opposite; oriope; party; past; people; piece; pig; pigs; place; plantations; platform; point; poor; port; position; possible; present; quiet; ready; return; ridge; river; rock; round; rua; ruatoka; running; sago; said; salt; saw; sea; service; set; shore; shot; sleep; small; sogeri; south; spears; spirit; splendid; start; station; stay; stick; straits; strange; sugar; sunday; tamate; taro; teachers; terrible; things; thought; time; tobacco; trading; tree; trouble; true; uakinumu; unarmed; vessel; village; visit; wallaby; want; war; water; way; west; white; wife; wind; wives; women; wood; work; years; young
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- 18068
- author: Booth, Robert B.
- title: Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864
- date: None
- words: 47512
- flesch: 68
- summary: It is a strange error of judgment which sends such men as this to the Colonies, but perhaps those who are responsible consider they are justified by the removal of the scapegrace and finally getting rid of him by any means. They are intersected every ten to twenty miles by wide shallow river beds, which during the summer months, when the warm nor'-westers melt the snow and ice on the Alps, are often terrific torrents, impassable for days together, while at other times they are shingle interspersed with clear rapid streams, more or less shallow, and generally fordable with ordinary care.
- keywords: accident; accommodation; addition; afternoon; animals; arrival; ashburton; assistance; bad; bank; bay; bed; best; better; black; blankets; blue; boar; boat; body; boundary; breakfast; broken; brother; buildings; bullock; bush; business; butler; c----; camp; canterbury; captain; case; cattle; certain; chance; chapter; charge; christchurch; circumstances; clear; close; cold; colonial; colonies; common; company; considerable; cook; country; couple; course; cut; cutting; daily; danger; dark; davis; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; different; difficulty; diggers; diggings; distance; distant; doctor; dog; dogs; dray; drive; dunedin; early; easy; employment; end; england; evening; excellent; experienced; extensive; extent; fair; family; farmer; farming; fast; father; feeling; feet; fellow; fine; fire; firewood; flat; following; food; foot; forest; form; fortune; free; fresh; friends; frost; general; gold; good; gorge; government; grass; great; ground; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; highfield; hills; hold; home; homestead; horse; hours; huge; hunting; hut; hutkeeper; illustration; inches; interesting; jack; jones; journey; kind; lake; lambs; lapworth; large; late; lead; leave; lee; left; legge; length; life; like; lindis; line; little; living; locality; lonely; long; look; lyttelton; mail; making; man; manner; mare; means; melbourne; men; mesopotamia; miles; mob; moment; money; month; moorhouse; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; mud; mutton; near; necessary; new; night; north; number; occasional; old; open; opportunity; overseer; party; pass; passage; piece; pigs; pine; place; plains; pleasant; point; port; portion; position; possible; powerful; present; previous; province; purchase; rangitata; rate; rats; reach; ready; return; ride; riding; river; road; room; rope; rough; route; run; running; saddle; sailors; scene; sea; season; set; severe; shark; sheep; shelter; shepherd; ship; short; sides; single; sitting; small; smith; snow; south; squatter; start; station; stay; stock; stockyard; story; stream; strong; sufficient; supply; table; tea; thick; thought; timber; time; town; track; trees; upper; use; usual; view; visit; voyage; water; way; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; winter; wool; work; working; world; yards; years; young; zealand
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- 20337
- author: Bligh, William
- title: A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat
- date: None
- words: 29008
- flesch: 73
- summary: At dawn of day we again discovered land from W S W to W N W, and another island N N W, the latter a high round lump of but little extent; and I could see the southern land that I had passed in the night. At three in the morning, with an excess of joy, we discovered Timor bearing from W S W to W N W, and I hauled on a wind to the N N E till day-light, when the land bore from S W by S about two leagues to N E by N seven leagues.
- keywords: 25th; able; account; afternoon; allowance; appearance; april; bearing; better; birds; boat; bore; bread; breakfast; cape; captain; christian; cloaths; close; coast; cocoa; cold; country; course; dark; day; determined; dinner; distance; distant; ditto; evening; fair; fine; fire; fresh; friday; friendly; fruit; gales; good; governor; great; half; hands; high; holland; island; june; large; latitude; leagues; left; little; longitude; main; man; master; men; miles; miserable; morning; n e; n w; natives; near; necessary; nelson; new; night; noon; northward; number; nut; o'clock; ounce; oysters; particular; party; past; people; person; pieces; pint; place; pork; pound; power; quarter; rain; reef; rest; rocks; rum; s e; s s; s w; sail; saturday; scarce; sea; set; ship; shore; sidenote; situation; sleep; small; southward; strong; sun; sunday; supper; thing; thursday; time; timor; tofoa; use; usual; voyage; watch; water; way; weather; wednesday; west; wet; wind; wine; yesterday
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- 22849
- author: West, John
- title: The History of Tasmania , Volume II
- date: None
- words: 160422
- flesch: 61
- summary: The colonists, of higher grades, preserved the distinction between the guilty and the innocent, which it is the object of public trials to establish; but the lower orders, and especially the dissolute and the worthless, justified hatred to the race, and finally, systematic massacre by the individual acts of such men as Musquito. No officer, or other person, shall be allowed to employ any convict at any time whatever for his personal advantage, or otherwise than on the public account, excepting always such men as may be appropriated to his service.
- keywords: abolition; aborigines; absence; absolute; abuses; accomplished; account; accustomed; acres; action; actual; administration; adopted; advanced; advantage; affected; agents; agricultural; air; alarm; alleged; america; anxious; appearance; application; appointment; approach; armed; arms; arrest; arrival; arthur; articles; aspect; assignment; assumed; astonishment; atrocious; attempt; attention; australian; authorised; authorities; authority; backhouse; bad; bank; bark; bay; benefit; benevolence; bentham; best; better; bigge; blacks; blankets; blood; board; boat; body; bondage; bonds; boy; brady; branch; bridge; britain; british; broken; buildings; bushrangers; campbell; capital; captain; capture; care; career; case; cattle; causes; celebrated; certain; chains; changes; chapel; chaplain; character; charge; chief; children; choice; church; circular; circumstances; civil; civilisation; civilised; claim; class; classes; close; clothes; clothing; coal; coast; collected; collins; colonel; colonial; colonies; colonisation; colonists; colony; come; comforts; commandant; commerce; commissioner; committed; common; communication; community; companions; company; compassion; conclusion; condition; conduct; confidence; conflict; connected; consequences; considerable; constables; constant; contemplated; contempt; continued; contrast; control; convict; cornwall; council; countenance; country; countrymen; courage; course; court; crime; criminal; crowded; crown; cruelty; curious; custom; daily; danger; dangerous; daring; day; days; dead; death; deck; declared; deep; defence; degradation; delay; demand; department; depredations; derwent; description; design; desirable; despatch; destruction; details; detention; determined; diemen; different; difficult; difficulties; direction; discharge; discipline; discovery; discretion; discussion; disease; disposal; disposed; disposition; distance; distant; distinguished; distribution; district; dogs; domestic; door; doubt; duties; duty; dwelling; early; earnest; earth; eastern; easy; effect; efforts; electoral; emancipists; emigration; empire; employers; employment; enemies; enemy; england; english; enquiry; enterprise; entire; entrance; episcopal; equal; escape; esk; esq; establishment; estimate; europe; evidence; evils; example; excited; execution; exercise; exhibit; exile; existence; expenditure; expense; experience; experiment; extensive; extent; extraordinary; eye; eyes; facts; failure; fair; fall; fallen; families; family; far; fatal; fate; father; favor; favorable; fear; fearful; feeling; feet; fellow; female; field; fine; fire; fish; fixed; flinders; flour; following; food; footnote; forbidden; force; forest; form; forster; fortune; franklin; free; freedom; french; frequent; friendly; friends; future; gangs; gaol; gazette; general; gentleman; george; god; gold; good; government; governor; grant; great; greater; grey; guard; guilt; gun; habits; half; hands; harbour; head; heart; high; highest; hill; history; hobart; hold; holland; home; honor; hope; hopeless; hostile; hours; house; howe; human; humanity; hundreds; husband; hut; huts; ideas; ignorant; immediate; imperial; important; improved; increase; indifference; individuals; indulgence; industry; infant; influence; inhabitants; inns; instance; instant; institutions; instructions; instrument; intelligent; intention; intercourse; interest; interior; involved; island; james; john; judge; judgment; jury; justice; justified; kangaroo; keepers; kindness; king; knowledge; known; labor; laborers; lady; lake; land; language; large; lash; lashes; launceston; law; laws; leave; left; legal; length; lest; liable; liberty; lieutenant; life; like; little; lives; living; local; london; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; maconochie; macquarie; magistrate; main; majesty; major; making; man; management; mankind; manner; march; marks; marsden; master; materials; means; measures; mechanics; meeting; member; men; mental; merchant; mercy; mere; merit; messrs; miles; military; mind; ministers; minute; mischief; miserable; misery; mode; moment; money; monmouth; months; moral; morning; mother; mountains; movement; mrs; murder; muskets; narrative; nation; national; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neglect; neighbourhood; new; norfolk; north; northern; notice; november; number; numerous; object; observation; occasion; occupation; offences; offenders; officers; official; old; open; operation; opinion; opposed; opposite; oppression; opulence; order; ordinary; original; overseers; oyster; page; papers; pardon; parent; parish; parliament; parliamentary; particular; parties; party; passage; passing; passions; past; pay; pearce; peculiar; penal; penalties; penalty; peninsula; people; perils; period; perpetual; personal; persons; phillip; physical; picture; piece; place; plains; plan; point; pointed; police; political; poor; popular; population; position; possession; possible; post; power; powerful; practical; practice; premises; prepared; presence; present; preserved; press; previous; price; principles; prisoners; private; probation; process; produce; progress; project; promise; proof; property; proportion; protection; provisions; public; punished; punishment; purpose; pursuit; quantity; quarter; question; quiet; race; rapid; rations; reach; read; real; reason; records; reference; reformation; regions; regular; regulations; relation; release; religious; remains; remarkable; remarks; remote; removal; report; reputation; requisite; resentment; residence; resident; resistance; resources; respectable; rest; restraint; results; retreat; return; rev; reward; right; rigour; rising; risk; river; road; robbers; robertson; robinson; rock; roman; room; rose; ross; round; royal; rule; rum; run; russell; sacrifice; safety; satisfied; savage; scaffold; scene; scheme; school; sea; seamen; second; secretary; section; secure; self; sense; sentence; sentiments; separate; servants; service; servitude; settlement; settlers; severe; severity; sheep; shepherd; ships; shore; shot; signal; similar; simple; sir; situated; skill; skin; slain; slavery; slaves; small; social; society; soldiers; somerset; sorell; south; southern; spears; special; species; spirit; spoil; spot; spread; stand; stanley; state; statement; station; stealing; stock; stone; stores; stream; strength; strong; subject; substantial; success; successful; succession; suffering; sufficient; sugar; summary; superintendent; superior; supply; support; supposed; surgeon; suspicion; sydney; sympathy; system; tamar; task; tasmania; temper; temporary; terms; terrible; terror; testimony; theory; things; thomas; thought; ticket; time; tobacco; toil; torture; total; town; township; trade; transportation; treatment; tree; trial; tribe; true; truth; unable; unfortunate; unhappy; united; unknown; unusual; useful; useless; usual; utmost; vain; valuable; value; van; variety; vast; vengeance; vessel; vices; views; vigilance; village; violence; visit; vol; voyage; wales; want; war; water; way; wealth; week; weight; welfare; wesleyan; western; westmoreland; white; wife; william; witness; witnesses; women; wood; words; work; working; world; worst; wounded; writer; yards; years; young
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- 2564
- author: Walker, H. Wilfrid
- title: Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
- date: None
- words: 59142
- flesch: 74
- summary: Early in the afternoon we passed large villages situated amid groves of coconut palms. These latter had to pass through many small villages on the way, but the inhabitants did not wait to find out whether they were friends or foes, and the police found the villages empty.
- keywords: able; account; acland; afternoon; agai; alive; ambu; american; amusing; angona; angry; anxious; arigita; armed; arms; arrival; arrows; attack; bad; bamboo; banks; baruga; beach; bearing; beautiful; better; big; birds; bit; black; blanca; boat; bodies; body; borneo; boy; bright; british; brother; buli; buquils; butterflies; camp; cannibals; canoes; captain; carriers; case; cave; centre; chapter; chickens; chief; chiefly; children; chinese; church; climbing; close; cloth; club; coast; coconut; collecting; colour; coloured; cooked; countries; country; course; cries; crocodiles; crowd; cry; curious; cut; dances; dark; darkness; day; dayaks; days; dead; deal; deep; different; distance; distant; district; doboduras; dogs; doubt; dozen; dry; duck; early; eating; end; enemy; english; enormous; europeans; evening; expedition; extraordinary; faces; fact; family; far; fast; fear; feet; ferns; fever; fighting; fiji; fijian; filipino; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flat; florida; flowers; following; food; force; forest; fort; fresh; friendly; friends; fruit; girls; glad; gold; good; government; grass; great; green; ground; growth; guinea; gun; hadji; hair; half; hands; hard; head; help; high; hole; home; hours; house; huge; human; hunters; hunting; hut; huts; impossible; inside; interesting; interior; island; journey; jungle; kaili; kapit; kind; ladders; lake; lala; large; large village; late; laughter; leaves; left; legs; length; levu; life; like; line; little; long; looking; loud; malay; man; manner; masirewa; mats; matter; means; meat; men; miles; miners; monckton; months; morning; mountains; mouth; mud; narrow; natives; natural; near; negritos; nests; new; night; noise; north; notus; number; numerous; odd; officials; old; open; ornaments; outside; palm; papuan; party; people; philippines; picturesque; pieces; pig; pigeons; pigs; pink; place; plants; platform; plentiful; plenty; poles; police; present; pretty; previous; prince; prisoners; quantities; rain; rajah; rattan; ratu; ratu lala; red; regular; return; rice; richardson; rifles; river; rocky; rough; sago; samoan; sarawak; scene; scenery; sea; season; set; shooting; shot; sibu; sides; size; skin; small; smaller; somo; sort; spears; species; spite; splendid; spot; start; stay; steamer; steep; story; stream; strong; sure; suva; swamp; tall; tapa; taviuni; thick; things; thought; time; track; trees; tribe; tropical; trouble; usual; variety; vic; view; village; visit; voice; walk; wanderings; war; water; way; white; white man; wife; wild; wished; women; wonderful; wooden; words; work; world; yards; years; yellow; young
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- 25828
- author: Sutherland, George
- title: History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
- date: None
- words: 89678
- flesch: 68
- summary: Its agriculture and its trades have doubled themselves every few years; and though a period of restless activity and progress was in 1890 followed by a time of severe depression, the community, like all the other Australian colonies, has great times of prosperity in store for it. A bishop and schoolmasters were to go out; a nobleman and other men of wealth bought land and prepared to take stock and servants out to the fine free lands of the south.
- keywords: able; account; acres; act; adelaide; affairs; anxious; appearance; armed; arrival; association; attack; attention; auckland; australia; authorities; ballarat; banks; barren; bass; bathurst; batman; bay; beautiful; better; bill; blacks; bligh; blue; board; boat; bodies; body; botany; brisbane; british; browne; burke; business; camels; cameron; camp; canoes; cape; capital; captain; careful; cattle; certain; chance; chapter; charge; charles; chief; children; circumstances; city; clear; close; coast; collins; colonel; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; command; community; company; complete; continent; convicts; cook; cooper; council; country; course; creek; crew; cross; crowds; current; dampier; darling; day; days; dead; death; deep; depã´t; desert; determined; diemen; different; difficulties; difficulty; diggers; direction; discoveries; discovery; distance; district; dutch; duty; early; earth; east; easy; edward; effort; england; english; escape; europe; evening; expected; expedition; explorers; extent; eyes; eyre; famous; farmers; farming; farms; farther; favour; favourable; feeling; feet; fighting; fine; fire; fitzroy; flinders; flocks; following; food; force; forests; form; fortune; franklin; free; french; frequent; fresh; friendly; friends; future; geelong; general; gentleman; george; gipps; glad; gloomy; gold; goldfields; good; government; governor; grassy; great; greater; greatest; green; grey; guard; gulf; guns; half; hand; handsome; harbour; hard; hau; head; heavy; heke; high; history; hobart; hobson; home; hongi; hope; horses; house; hovell; hume; hundreds; hunter; idea; illustration; immigrants; important; inhabitants; interior; island; jackson; john; journey; kind; king; known; kororarika; labour; labourers; lachlan; lake; land; large; latrobe; law; laws; leader; leave; left; legislative; length; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; lives; london; lonely; long; long time; longer; lord; lost; macarthur; macquarie; major; making; man; manner; maoris; marsden; massacre; matters; means; meantime; meeting; melbourne; members; men; merchants; middle; midst; miles; miners; miserable; missionaries; mitchell; money; months; moreton; morning; mountains; murray; muskets; natives; near; necessary; neighbouring; nelson; new; new colony; new governor; new south; new zealand; news; ngapuhi; night; norfolk; north; northern; number; numerous; occasion; ocean; officers; officials; open; opening; order; ordinary; pah; palisades; parliament; party; pass; passage; pay; people; period; persons; perth; phillip; place; plains; plenty; point; police; population; port; position; possession; possible; pounds; power; prepared; present; price; prisoners; progress; property; prospects; prosperous; provisions; public; purpose; queensland; question; quiros; rapid; rate; rauparaha; reach; ready; reason; region; report; responsible; rest; result; return; revenge; rich; river; road; rock; rose; rough; round; royal; sail; sailors; sale; sand; satisfaction; scattered; scene; scheme; sea; search; second; secretary; servants; service; settlement; settlers; sheep; shillings; ship; shores; short; sides; signs; sir; small; soil; soldiers; south; south australia; south wales; southern; spaniards; spite; splendid; spot; spread; squatters; state; station; strait; stream; street; strong; sturt; success; successful; sufficient; suitable; sun; supply; sydney; system; taranaki; task; tasmania; telegraph; territory; things; thought; time; torres; town; trade; transportation; trees; tribe; trip; trouble; unfortunate; unknown; upper; valley; value; van; vast; vessel; victoria; view; voyage; waikato; wakefield; wales; want; war; water; way; wealth; weeks; wellington; west; western; whaling; whero; white; white men; wife; wild; william; willing; wills; women; wool; work; working; world; yarra; years; young; zealand
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- 25976
- author: Fox, Frank
- title: Peeps At Many Lands: Australia
- date: None
- words: 23002
- flesch: 77
- summary: There is a very charming writer about Australian children, Ethel Turner, who in one of her stories gives a picture of a little Bush school in one of the most dreary places in Australia--a little township out on the hot plains. [Illustration: AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN RIDING TO SCHOOL.
- keywords: able; aboriginal; adelaide; air; animals; ant; asia; attempt; australia; australian bush; australian children; away; bark; beautiful; best; big; bird; bite; black; blue; books; boy; boys; britain; british; broken; bush; bushrangers; camp; capital; cattle; cave; centuries; chapter; chief; children; chinese; cities; city; civilization; climate; coast; cold; colour; coming; common; commonwealth; conditions; continent; cook; country; course; creature; crops; crow; cunning; curious; danger; dangerous; day; days; different; dry; early; earth; east; effort; empire; england; english; evil; exploration; face; fact; family; far; feet; fine; fire; fish; flesh; flowers; food; forest; free; fur; future; games; gold; goldfields; good; government; grass; great; ground; gully; gum; gun; hard; head; help; high; home; horses; hot; house; human; idea; illustration; indies; industry; island; jim; kangaroo; knowledge; koala; kookaburra; land; large; leaves; left; life; like; line; little; lives; living; long; man; meal; melbourne; men; merino; miles; morning; mountains; n.s.w; national; natives; natural; nature; near; need; new; north; northern; note; number; ocean; page; papuan; parts; people; picnic; place; plains; play; poor; population; possible; possum; present; pretty; queensland; quiet; rabbit; race; red; rich; right; rivers; road; rule; savage; school; sea; sheep; size; slow; small; snake; soft; soil; sort; south; southern; spirit; state; stick; story; sun; sydney; tasmania; tea; things; time; town; train; trees; tropical; turn; type; vast; wales; water; way; white; wild; wire; wool; work; world; years; young
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- 26501
- author: Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands
- title: Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature
- date: None
- words: 19306
- flesch: 59
- summary: Yet what king has had to contend with so many difficulties, arising from ignorance, prejudice, scanty revenue, inexperience and ineptitude, as his late Majesty King Kamehameha III.? His Majesty's Address to His Privy Council of State in reply to their Condolences over the Death of His late Majesty Kamehameha III._ CHIEFS:--I have become by the Will of God, your Father, as I have been your Child.
- keywords: able; address; administration; agriculture; almighty; amendments; attention; best; bill; birth; business; chief; circumstances; close; confidence; congratulations; consideration; constitution; countries; country; day; death; december; department; desire; doubt; duties; duty; education; effect; experience; extraordinary; fact; father; feelings; following; foreign; foreigners; free; future; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; great; hands; happy; hawaiian; heir; help; high; honolulu; hope; house; iii; important; independence; interests; islands; january; justice; kamehameha; kind; king; kingdom; labor; late; late majesty; law; laws; legislature; life; majesty; man; means; measures; members; minister; nation; national; native; necessary; new; nobles; occasion; officers; order; page; past; people; persons; place; pleasure; position; power; president; prince; principles; proclamation; progress; proper; prosperity; public; queen; race; regard; relations; remarks; replies; reply; report; representatives; result; royal; ruler; satisfaction; session; society; solemn; son; special; speech; states; subjects; success; support; sympathy; throne; time; trust; united; war; wisdom; wishes; work; worthy; year; young
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- 2660
- author: Pinkerton, John
- title: Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
- date: None
- words: 51077
- flesch: 61
- summary: At four we saw other small islands, by which I was now assured that these were the Bande Isles there. There were three or four rocky islands about a league from us, between us and the Bluff point, and we saw many other islands both to the east and west of it, as far as we could see either way from our topmast-head, and all within them to the south there was nothing but islands of a pretty height, that may be seen eight or nine leagues off; by what we saw of them they must have been a range of islands of about twenty leagues in length, stretching from east- north-east to west-south-west, and, for aught I know, as far as to those of Shark's Bay, and to a considerable breadth also, for we could see nine or ten leagues in among them, towards the continent or mainland of New Holland, if there be any such thing hereabouts; and by the great tides I met with awhile afterwards, more to the north-east, I had a strong suspicion that here might be a kind of archipelago of islands, and a passage possibly to the south of New Holland and New Guinea into the great South Sea eastward, which I had thoughts also of attempting in my return from New Guinea, had circumstances permitted, and told my officers so; but I would not attempt it at this time, because we wanted water, and could not depend upon finding it there.
- keywords: able; abundance; account; afternoon; america; anchor; arms; august; australia; batavia; bay; bays; best; better; birds; black; board; boat; breeze; canoes; cape; captain; chapter; clear; close; coast; cocoa; colour; commerce; commodities; company; compass; considerable; continent; cornelis; countries; country; course; current; dampier; day; days; deep; degrees; degrees south; design; different; discoveries; discovery; distance; distant; drafts; dutch; east; east india; easterly; eastward; end; england; evening; fair; farther; fast; fathom; feet; finding; fine; fire; fish; flat; fresh; fruits; gale; general; george; gold; good; great; green; guinea; half; hands; hard; head; height; high; high island; hitherto; hogs; holland; hope; hour; houses; india; indies; inhabitants; island; isle; kind; knowledge; known; large; latitude; lay; leagues; left; like; line; little; longitude; low; lying; main; maire; man; men; meridian; miles; minutes; morning; mountainous; nation; natives; necessary; needle; new; night; north; northward; o'clock; observation; opening; order; parts; passage; pelsart; people; place; plain; plantations; pleasant; point; present; pretty; probable; quarter; rain; reader; reason; refreshments; respect; rest; return; river; rocks; round; said; sail; sand; schovten; sea; search; seas; set; ship; shoal; shore; shot; signs; small; smoke; sort; south; south latitude; south sea; southern; southward; strong; tall; tasman; terra; thick; things; tide; time; trade; trees; true; turtle; use; variation; vessel; voyage; water; way; weather; west; westward; weybhays; white; william; wind; wood; words; work; world; year; yellow
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- 27099
- author: Corfield, W. H. (William Henry)
- title: Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869
- date: None
- words: 48933
- flesch: 76
- summary: For about twelve months after that I closely studied every phase of the phenomenon, and during that time I discovered good water for many residents in the district. After marking several sites on the station, when passing through Brisbane later, on my way to Cowley Station on the same errand, I interviewed Messrs. Philp and Forsyth, who told me there had been a well sunk on my site and no water obtained, but that the contractor had sunk a three-inch bore, where my peg was, and had obtained good water for his camp use.
- keywords: able; acquaintance; act; afternoon; allen; arrival; attention; australia; bad; bank; bay; bill; blacks; board; boat; body; bore; boulia; boy; boys; brisbane; broken; buggy; building; bullocks; bush; business; camp; cape; captain; carolan; carriers; carruthers; carrying; case; cattle; central; certain; chapter; character; charge; charters; chinamen; chinese; claim; clifton; close; co.; coach; coast; cobb; committee; company; cooktown; corfield; country; course; court; creek; crossing; cut; dalrymple; dark; day; days; dead; dean; deep; depth; destination; diamantina; different; difficulty; diggers; diggings; dinner; direction; distance; district; doctor; downs; dray; drink; drive; drivers; driving; dry; early; elderslie; engaged; england; evening; experience; faculty; far; feet; fellow; felt; fever; fine; fire; fitzmaurice; flinders; flour; following; friend; friendship; general; gentleman; gilbert; girl; gold; good; government; grass; grave; great; griffith; ground; half; hand; hard; hat; head; hearing; heavy; help; high; hole; home; horses; hotel; hours; house; hughenden; inspector; intended; interesting; island; john; journey; known; labour; lady; lake; large; late; leave; leaving; letter; life; line; little; loaded; loading; long; look; lynett; macrossan; man; manager; married; maryborough; mate; matter; mcilwraith; meat; meeting; members; men; messrs; miles; mind; mob; money; months; morning; mount; mrs; mytton; near; necessary; nelson; new; night; north; number; o'connor; oak; officer; oondooroo; open; opposite; outside; owner; p.m.; pack; palmer; palmerville; park; parliament; partner; party; passage; passengers; passing; people; philp; piece; place; plenty; police; popular; portion; position; present; previous; price; promise; property; public; purchase; queensland; railway; rain; rations; remains; return; ride; riding; river; road; rockhampton; room; running; saddle; sand; saunders; season; second; send; session; shaft; shaw; sheep; ship; short; sir; site; small; south; spot; start; state; station; stay; store; stream; street; strong; sun; supply; sydney; teams; thinking; thomas; thought; timber; time; tom; towers; township; townsville; tracks; travelling; trip; troopers; twig; uncle; unknown; value; vindex; visit; waggon; water; way; week; western; wet; whip; white; wife; wilson; winton; wool; work; working; yards; years; young; |page
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- 27578
- author: Speiser, Felix
- title: Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
- date: None
- words: 78275
- flesch: 72
- summary: Generally they stared at me without a sign of intelligence, or else began to tell fairy-tales of dwarfs they had seen in the bush, of little men with tails and goat's feet (probably derived from what they had heard of the devil from missionaries), all beings of whose existence they were perfectly convinced, whom they often see in the daytime and feel at night, so that it is very hard to separate truth from imagination. For to judge from present conditions, the accounts of old men and the many ruined villages, it is evident that the race must have decreased enormously.
- keywords: afraid; afternoon; agelan; air; ambrym; anchor; anchorage; animal; anxious; aoba; archipelago; arms; arrival; arrows; atmosphere; away; bad; bamboo; banks; bare; bay; beach; beautiful; beauty; belni; belt; best; better; big; black; blue; board; boat; bodies; body; boulders; bourbaki; boys; branches; breakers; breeze; bright; british; broken; brother; bush; bushes; canoes; captain; care; carved; caste; certain; channel; chapter; charm; chief; children; civilization; clan; clear; cliffs; climb; close; clothes; clouds; clubs; coast; cocoa; cold; coming; company; conditions; consequence; cook; cool; coprah; coral; country; course; crater; cross; crowd; cruz; curly; cutter; cyclone; damp; dance; dancing; dangerous; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; depths; different; dinner; distance; districts; dogs; dream; dress; drink; drums; dry; dull; earth; easy; end; english; enormous; entrance; european; evening; excitement; existence; eyes; faces; fact; fallen; family; far; father; fear; feast; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; fields; fine; fire; fish; flat; following; food; foot; forest; form; french; frequent; friends; frightened; gamal; general; george; giant; girls; glad; good; government; grass; great; greatest; green; grey; ground; group; grown; guide; hair; half; hands; happy; harbour; hard; head; heavy; hebrides; help; high; higher; highest; hills; hold; home; honour; host; hours; house; huge; human; hung; hut; huts; idea; immense; inland; inside; interest; interesting; interior; islands; kind; known; labour; landscape; language; large; late; laughter; launch; lava; leaves; left; legs; level; lie; lies; life; like; line; lips; little; living; lonely; long; longer; look; looking; lost; low; macao; making; malekula; man; master; matches; mats; matters; meal; means; melanesian; men; mission; missionaries; missionary; mist; moli; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mountains; mètres; naked; nambas; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; new; night; north; nose; nouméa; number; numerous; nut; nuts; object; occasion; ocean; old; olry; ones; open; order; outside; pacific; palms; palo; path; pay; peak; peculiar; pentecoste; people; picture; pigs; place; plain; plantation; planters; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; point; polynesian; poor; population; port; position; possible; power; presbyterian; present; pretty; primitive; quiet; race; rain; rare; ready; real; reason; recruiting; red; reef; regular; resident; results; return; rev; rich; rifles; rise; river; road; rocks; roof; rose; rule; run; santo; satisfied; sea; segond; set; shape; sharp; shell; ship; shore; shot; sides; silent; silver; similar; simple; sing; size; skin; sky; slopes; small; smoke; soft; sorts; soul; south; southern; special; spirit; spite; spot; square; stand; standing; stars; state; station; stay; steamer; steep; sticks; stone; storm; straight; strange; stream; strong; stuck; sun; suque; surf; surface; surprising; system; table; talamacco; talk; tall; tanna; taro; thick; thicket; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; tobacco; torn; trade; treatment; trees; trouble; trunks; tusked; valleys; valuable; vao; vegetation; view; vila; village; violent; visit; volcanic; volcano; voyage; walk; walls; warm; watch; water; waves; weapons; weather; weeks; west; western; whale; white; wide; wife; wild; willing; wind; women; wood; work; world; yam; yams; years; young
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- 28034
- author: Anderson, Mary E. (Mary Evarts)
- title: Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California
- date: None
- words: 35211
- flesch: 84
- summary: We had little time for rest; for the next day, Saturday, May 23, we started on our tour around Oahu. The next day we had a visit from many native men and women, who brought their gifts of eggs, onions, cabbages, fowls, and melons.
- keywords: afternoon; air; alice; aloha; american; appearance; aunty; auwe; baggage; bags; bay; beach; beautiful; bed; bell; black; blossoms; board; boat; bread; breakfast; bright; broken; brown; building; california; cannon; captain; carriage; carrie; center; chapter; children; christian; church; city; clean; coast; cocoa; college; colored; company; cook; coral; country; crater; darkness; daughter; day; days; deal; deck; deep; delightful; dinner; distance; distant; dollars; door; dressed; early; entrance; evening; eye; eyes; fall; family; father; feet; fellow; felt; ferns; fine; fish; flowers; foreign; francisco; friends; fruit; garden; gate; gentlemen; glad; god; golden; good; grandpa; gravel; great; green; group; grove; half; hands; happy; hard; harry; hawaiian; head; heathen; heavy; high; hills; home; honolulu; horseback; horses; hot; hours; house; illustration; interesting; islands; journey; kamehameha; kapiolani; kauai; kind; king; ladies; lahaina; lake; large; lava; leaves; left; like; little; long; look; lord; love; mai; makou; man; maui; meeting; men; miles; missionaries; missionary; monday; morning; morrow; mountain; narrow; native; nei; new; nice; night; number; nut; nuts; o'clock; oahu; ocean; old; ones; outside; panama; party; passengers; pele; people; place; plant; pleasant; point; poor; potatoes; pounds; present; pretty; prince; queen; rain; ready; red; rest; rev; ride; riding; river; road; rock; room; rose; rough; round; sabbath; sacramento; saddle; sail; saloon; san; sand; saturday; scene; sea; seat; service; set; shells; ship; shore; sides; sire; sitting; small; society; sort; square; steamer; steep; stone; story; stream; strong; sugar; surf; table; taro; thatched; thing; thy; time; town; trees; tuesday; valley; vessel; view; village; visit; volcano; voyage; waimea; waiting; walls; water; way; welcome; wet; wharf; white; wide; wife; willie; wind; women; wood; work; years; york; young
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- 28955
- author: Hussey, Cyrus M.
- title: A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
- date: None
- words: 28983
- flesch: 68
- summary: About 4 or 5 o'clock, I observed a great collection of natives, and on inquiring the reason, learned that several of the Dolphin's crew, joined by some from other ships lying in port, had made an assault upon Mr. Bingham, the missionary, in consequence of ill will towards that gentleman, strongly felt by some of the sailors, but for what particular reason, I did not distinctly ascertain. Luttuon_ and several other natives.
- keywords: account; act; alloo; anchor; articles; bad; barrels; beach; black; blood; blow; board; boat; body; bread; brother; cabin; canoe; captain; cause; chapter; charge; chiefs; clothing; cocoanuts; company; comstock; considerable; country; course; crew; cyrus; day; days; death; dec; distance; distant; doubt; early; family; fear; feb; feelings; feet; fine; fish; fisher; fishing; following; form; friends; fruit; george; gilbert; globe; good; great; guilty; half; hands; harbour; having; head; high; hold; hope; hour; hussey; hut; idea; interview; island; john; joy; kind; king; landing; language; large; lay; leave; length; life; like; lilliston; little; long; lumbert; man; manner; master; mate; means; meat; men; milly; mind; months; morning; mulgrave; murder; muskets; mutiny; nantucket; natives; night; number; o'clock; ocean; officers; oil; old; oliver; orders; passage; payne; people; person; pieces; place; preparations; present; preserved; provisions; purpose; quantity; reader; rest; return; round; said; sail; sandwich; saw; schooner; sea; second; set; ship; shore; situation; small; smith; state; steward; stones; sufficient; sun; supply; tent; thing; thomas; time; trees; united; vessel; village; visit; voyage; watch; water; way; weather; whale; william; wind; women; wood; work; years
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- 29070
- author: Hay, W. Delisle (William Delisle)
- title: Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 79308
- flesch: 77
- summary: And what is it in Rakope's cheeks and chin, and rare red lips and pearly teeth, that makes one think of peaches and of rosebuds and of honey, and of many other things that are nicest of the nice? Other men who are journeying on the roads or rivers somehow become attached to Miss Ada's luggage.
- keywords: able; account; accustomed; acres; advantage; air; ancient; apparent; appearance; arapaoa; arrival; article; attention; auckland; axe; bad; bank; bare; barracks; bay; beach; beasts; beautiful; beauty; beginning; believe; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; blankets; blue; bluff; board; boat; body; boots; boys; britain; broken; brown; building; bull; burn; bush; bushman; business; capital; care; case; cattle; centre; certain; chance; chapter; character; chief; children; chimney; choice; chums; circumstances; city; cityswell; civilization; class; clean; clearings; close; clothes; coach; coat; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; comfortable; coming; common; company; condition; considerable; corner; cost; country; couple; course; court; cows; craft; creek; crowd; cultivation; custom; cut; dance; dandy; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; deep; different; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; district; dogs; door; dozen; drawing; drive; driving; dry; earnest; edge; effect; emigrant; end; energy; england; english; evening; excitement; experience; extensive; extent; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; fancy; far; farm; farmer; fashion; favour; feed; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fern; fiend; fine; fire; fish; flat; flax; flour; fly; foliage; following; food; foot; forest; form; forward; frame; free; fresh; friends; fruit; future; garden; general; gentleman; girls; glorious; good; government; grand; grass; great; greater; green; group; gullies; gully; hair; half; hall; hands; harbour; hard; head; heavy; height; helensville; herd; high; history; hitherto; hold; home; hongi; hope; horses; hotel; hours; house; hunting; idea; immediate; immense; immigrants; important; individual; industry; interest; island; jack; job; kaipara; kauri; keeping; kind; know; labour; labourers; ladies; lady; land; landing; large; late; lay; leave; left; legs; lies; life; like; likely; lily; lime; limited; line; little; little'un; live; living; load; london; long; longer; look; looking; maize; making; man; manner; maori; marahemo; market; married; material; matter; mayor; means; meat; meet; melons; member; men; mere; middle; miles; milk; mind; minute; miss; mob; moment; money; months; morning; mount; mud; native; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neighbours; new; new zealand; ngapuhi; ngatewhatua; north; northern; notice; notion; number; numerous; o'gaygun; occasion; old; old colonial; open; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; original; otamatea; outside; paddocks; pahi; pakeha; particular; party; passengers; past; path; people; persons; picture; picturesque; piece; pigs; pioneer; pipe; pirate; place; plan; pleasant; plenty; plough; point; poor; population; pork; position; possible; potatoes; pounds; power; present; pretty; price; primitive; principal; progress; proper; prospect; public; purpose; quality; queen; question; race; railway; rakope; ranges; ready; real; received; regard; regular; remarks; remembered; result; return; rich; riding; right; river; riverhead; road; room; rough; round; rude; rule; run; runs; saint; salt; satisfied; savage; saw; scene; scenery; scrub; sea; season; second; sense; service; settlement; settlers; shanty; shark; sheep; shell; shillings; shirt; shore; shouting; shrubs; sides; similar; simple; single; sitting; situation; size; small; smoke; society; soft; soil; sort; south; space; special; spite; splendid; spot; spree; stakes; standing; start; state; station; steam; steers; stern; stock; stockman; stockyard; stone; straight; strange; street; strong; stuff; stumps; style; subject; success; sugar; sun; sundry; supper; supply; sure; tale; talk; tama; tanoa; tapu; tea; term; thing; thought; tide; timber; time; toil; township; trees; tribe; trouble; true; turkeys; turn; umbrella; useful; usual; varied; variety; vegetables; verandah; view; visible; visit; voyage; wairoa; want; watch; water; way; ways; weather; week; wet; wharf; white; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; women; wonder; wooden; woods; wool; work; world; worst; yards; years; young; zealand
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- 29383
- author: Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs
- title: The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial
- date: None
- words: 24728
- flesch: 72
- summary: The bulk of Hawaiian coffee lands is situated in the forests where the land is covered with a dense undergrowth of ferns and vines and there are no pernicious weeds to bother. H. I. J. M. Eleve Consul, Mr. K. Mimashi, Secretary H. I. J. M. Consulate-General.
- keywords: acres; act; agent; agricultural; america; applicants; application; bearing; best; board; branches; britain; british; building; california; capital; captain; care; case; cash; cent; certain; chapter; charge; chiefs; chinese; city; class; clearing; clerk; climate; close; coffee; coffee tree; commercial; common; conditions; constitution; consul; corn; cost; country; court; credit; crop; cultivation; cylinder; day; days; death; demands; department; deputy; district; dry; elevation; end; english; excellent; executive; fact; family; feed; feet; field; fifth; fine; fire; food; foreign; fourth; france; francisco; freehold; french; fruit; general; george; good; government; great; ground; group; half; hamakua; handling; hawaiian; hawaiian islands; head; high; hilo; holes; home; homestead; honolulu; house; illustration; improvements; inches; industries; industry; interest; islands; james; january; japanese; judiciary; july; kamehameha; kauai; kinds; king; kona; labor; land; large; law; lbs; lease; legislature; lessee; level; life; line; little; local; long; manager; market; maui; minister; molokai; month; native; necessary; new; north; number; numerous; nursery; oahu; office; olaa; old; opportunities; order; pacific; pairs; parts; pastoral; people; period; picking; pigs; place; plantation; planter; planting; plants; point; population; portion; position; possible; potatoes; premises; present; president; primaries; proper; property; public; puna; purchase; queen; railroad; representatives; republic; results; rice; right; room; roots; salary; sale; san; school; sea; secondaries; secretary; seed; settlement; small; soil; south; special; states; street; sugar; sweet; system; taxes; thousands; time; trade; treaty; tree; tropical; tubers; united; valley; value; vice; volcano; war; water; way; william; wood; work; world; year; young
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- 29609
- author: Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)
- title: Six Letters From the Colonies
- date: None
- words: 23715
- flesch: 74
- summary: The Attorney General of New South Wales, Mr. (now, I think, Sir William) Dalley, is by many people considered the foremost statesman in Australia. Many men from Melbourne have brought their wives from across the straits.
- keywords: account; adelaide; assembly; auckland; australia; bad; ballarat; beautiful; best; better; bird; bishop; board; building; buninyong; business; cape; capital; captain; case; centre; certain; chief; city; class; climate; close; co.; coast; colonies; colony; company; convict; council; country; course; dangerous; day; days; dead; deal; deck; degs; difficult; direct; distance; district; doubt; drive; east; end; england; entrance; fact; feet; fine; form; free; friend; gardens; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; great; greater; half; hall; hampshire; hand; harbour; head; high; hobart; home; hours; house; inhabitants; interest; interesting; island; january; journey; judge; justice; known; large; largest; late; launceston; left; legislative; length; library; life; like; line; little; london; long; look; matter; melbourne; members; miles; minister; money; months; morning; mount; mountain; native; near; neighbourhood; new; new south; new zealand; night; norfolk; north; number; object; occasion; office; old; opinion; ostrich; parliament; particular; passengers; people; place; point; population; port; position; present; principal; public; question; rail; railway; result; return; river; road; rock; rooms; round; rule; run; sailors; sale; scenery; sea; second; service; ship; short; size; small; south; south australia; southern; state; steamers; street; sunday; sydney; tasmania; things; time; town; trade; train; trees; university; usual; victoria; view; visit; vote; voyage; wales; want; water; way; weather; week; wellington; west; wind; work; years; young; zealand
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- 30607
- author: Pridden, W. (William)
- title: Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants
- date: None
- words: 125146
- flesch: 65
- summary: [10] See two other curious accounts of the effects of _mirage_ and refraction in Sturt's Expeditions in Australia, vol. Secondly, since the Scotch discipline, though it prevails over a very small part of our population, is yet established by law in one portion of the island, it may put in (as it has done) its claim for help from Government; but, without entering into argument respecting this, might we not safely put it to every wise and rightly judging Presbyterian, whether it is not better to waive this claim of theirs, than to perplex the progress of Christianity, by offering to the heathen Australians, at the same time, and by the same temporal authority, the Bible, which speaks of _one_ Church, and the choice between _two_ churches?
- keywords: able; absence; abundance; abundant; account; acres; advantage; air; allowance; ancient; animal; answer; appearance; approach; archdeacon; arms; arrival; article; assistance; attempt; attention; australia; authority; average; bad; banks; bark; barren; bathurst; bay; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; beings; bennillong; best; better; birds; bishop; black; blessings; blue; board; boat; body; bold; book; boyl; branches; breadth; british; broken; buildings; burton; bush; capital; captain; care; carrying; cases; catholic; cattle; cause; ceremony; certain; channel; chaplain; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; christian; church; churches; circumstances; civilised; claim; class; classes; clay; clear; clergy; clergymen; cliffs; climate; close; cloth; coast; college; collins; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; committee; common; communication; communion; companions; complete; condition; conduct; consequence; considerable; continued; contrary; convicts; corn; corporation; 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- 31012
- author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 17
- date: None
- words: 112950
- flesch: 79
- summary: I didn't like the lot--no trader does; they look down upon us, and make no concealment; and, besides, they're partly Kanakaised, and suck up with natives instead of with other white men like themselves. I think you good man, she said.
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- 31557
- author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18
- date: None
- words: 149146
- flesch: 73
- summary: Old man, said Maka. I see old man, no got a spear, said the king.
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common; company; compound; conceive; conduct; consequence; considerable; consular; consuls; continuous; cook; copra; coral; corner; corpse; cotton; council; countenance; country; couple; course; court; cow; creatures; crew; cries; crime; cross; crowded; cry; curious; customs; cut; daily; dance; dancers; danger; dangerous; dark; darkness; date; day; days; dead; dead man; deal; dear; death; decision; deck; deep; degree; delight; departure; deserted; design; desire; devil; diet; different; difficulty; dinner; disease; distance; distant; divided; dog; dogs; dollars; donat; door; dordillon; doubtless; dozen; drawing; dressed; drink; drinking; dull; dusk; duty; dwelling; eager; early; earth; eastern; easy; eating; effect; enclosure; end; engaged; england; english; entertained; equal; equator; escape; european; evening; example; excellent; experience; extraordinary; extreme; eyes; face; fact; fakarava; fall; fallen; false; families; family; fancy; far; fashion; father; favourite; fear; feast; 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scene; school; schoolmaster; schooner; sea; seas; seat; seaward; second; secret; self; senfft; sense; sensible; sentiment; series; servant; service; set; shadow; shame; shed; shells; ship; shore; shot; shoulders; sick; sides; signal; silence; silent; similar; simple; singing; single; singular; sir; sister; sitting; sleep; sleeping; small; smile; smoke; society; sole; solitary; son; song; sort; souls; sound; south; space; speak; speaking; speech; spirit; spot; spread; stand; standing; stanislao; stars; state; station; stay; step; stevenson; stewart; stone; stop; story; strange; strangers; street; strength; strong; subject; success; sudden; sum; sun; sunday; sure; surf; surprise; taahauku; table; tahiti; tahitian; taipi; tales; talk; talking; tall; tamaiti; tamasese; taniera; tapu; taro; task; taste; tattooed; tebureimoa; tembinok; terms; terrace; terror; terutak; theatre; things; think; thought; time; tobacco; tops; touch; town; trade; traders; treaty; tree; troops; trouble; true; truth; 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- 33342
- author: Maning, Frederick Edward
- title: Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times
- date: None
- words: 50426
- flesch: 73
- summary: tapu_,--what I have called the personal _tapu_; not the more dangerous and dreadful kind connected with the mystic doings of the _tohunga_, or that other form of _tapu_ connected with the handling of the dead. One of the effects of this temporary extra _tapu_ was that the parties could not enter any regular dwelling-house, or, indeed, any house used by others.
- keywords: able; active; affair; answer; appearance; armed; arms; arrival; article; bad; baked; battle; best; better; blood; board; boat; body; bones; breast; british; brother; canoe; cartridge; case; certain; chance; chapter; character; chief; child; circumstances; clear; close; coat; come; consequence; correct; cost; country; courage; course; cry; customs; cut; dance; danger; dangerous; day; days; dead; death; decrease; deep; degree; desperate; different; direction; distance; duties; effect; enemy; english; europeans; excitement; expedition; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; family; famous; fast; father; fear; feet; fellow; fence; fighting; fine; fire; flax; floor; food; foot; force; form; fort; friend; general; gold; good; good old; great; greater; ground; gun; gunpowder; haere; hair; half; hand; hard; hat; head; heavy; help; high; hill; hold; home; honour; hope; horrid; house; huge; human; idea; instance; instant; iron; island; killing; kind; knowing; known; kumera; labour; land; large; late; law; left; life; like; little; live; loaded; long; look; mad; mai; making; man; mana; manner; maori; mataika; matter; meaning; means; melons; men; mention; mere; miles; mind; moment; money; morning; mother; murder; muru; muskets; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; neighbours; new; notice; notions; number; occasion; old; old man; old times; opinion; oracle; order; ordinary; owner; pakeha; particular; parties; party; payment; people; perfect; person; personal; piece; pigs; pipe; place; plunder; point; poor; potatoes; power; present; pretty; priest; principal; property; provisions; public; rangatira; reader; ready; real; reason; regular; relations; remarkable; rescue; respect; respectable; return; right; room; rule; running; said; salute; savage; sea; second; set; shed; ship; shore; shot; shouting; silence; single; slaves; small; sort; spear; spirit; stand; standing; state; step; stick; story; stout; strength; strong; subject; sufficient; sure; system; taniwha; tapu; taua; thing; thought; tiki; time; tohunga; tomahawk; trade; trading; tribe; trouble; true; utu; valuable; value; village; voice; want; war; warrior; water; way; welcome; women; word; work; worth; wrong; yards; years; young; zealand
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- 33355
- author: Gleasner, Bill
- title: Oahu Traveler's guide
- date: None
- words: 6545
- flesch: 75
- summary: GOOD SWIMMING BEACHES Ala Moana Park Waikiki Beach Center Prince Kuhio Beach Park Queen's Surf Beach Park Sans Souci Beach Hanauma Bay Beach Park Kaupo Beach Park Waimanalo Beach Park Bellows Beach Park Kailua Beach Park Kalama Beach Kaaawa Beach Park Kahana Bay Beach Park Punaluu Beach Park Ehukai Beach Park Waimea Bay Beach Park Makua Beach Keaau Beach Park Pokai Bay Beach Park Maili Beach Park Ulehawa Beach Park Nanakuli Beach Park Kahe Beach Park [Illustration] BODY SURFING AND SNORKELING The best beaches for body surfing are Prince Kuhio Beach Park, Koko Head Beach Park, Makapuu Beach Park, Bellows Beach Park, Laie Maloo and Keaau Beach Park. Chun's Reef Lanaikea Beach Haleiwa (excellent for beginners when surf is from 2 to 5 feet) Makua Beach (experts) Makaha Beach Park (experts) Maili Beach Park Ulehawa Beach Park [Illustration] BEACHES From time to time strong currents, high surf and turbulent water affect every beach on Oahu.
- keywords: acre; air; ala; ancient; art; ave; barracks; basin; bay; bay beach; beach; beach park; beachcombing; beaches; best; board; bus; camping; cane; center; chinese; club; coast; cultural; daily; detail; diamond; east; end; excellent; exhibits; experts; falls; fee; fishing; flowers; free; garden; golf; great; hanauma; hawaiian; head; highway; honolulu; hotel; house; hwy; illustration; industry; international; iolani; island; kahuku; kai; kamehameha; kaneohe; kapiolani; kewalo; kids; king; koko; life; long; look; makapuu; manoa; map; moana; monday; mountains; museum; near; north; nuuanu; oahu; ocean; open; outrigger; pacific; page; palace; pali; paradise; park; pearl; people; pineapple; playground; polynesian; queen; recreation; reef; road; royal; royalty; sea; shops; shore; snorkeling; sport; state; street; sugar; summer; sunset; surfing; swimming; temple; time; today; tour; trees; tropical; valley; view; wahiawa; waianae; waikiki; waimea; water; waves; west; windward; world; year; young
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- 34037
- author: Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
- title: Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands
- date: None
- words: 106126
- flesch: 61
- summary: For the most part, undoubtedly, it is the dissolute, drinking, thieving classes of London and other large cities who loudly utter these demands, spurred on to do so by reckless socialists and conspiring anarchists. Like many other blossoming trees of the Southern Pacific, its flowers when gathered have very little individual beauty or attractiveness, its brilliant color-effect being derived from the clusters of bright scarlet stamens, which when seen in mass upon the tree appear strikingly beautiful.
- keywords: aborigines; abound; abundance; abundant; accessible; account; acres; action; activity; adelaide; admirable; advantages; africa; aggregate; agricultural; air; albatross; american; ample; animals; annual; appearance; architectural; area; arms; arrival; articles; aspect; atmosphere; attention; attractive; auckland; auriferous; australia; author; average; away; ballarat; ballou; bananas; banks; bay; bearing; beautified; beautiful; beauty; beds; best; better; big; bird; black; bloom; blossoms; blue; board; boat; body; boiling; bold; book; borders; boston; botanical; branches; break; bridge; brief; bright; brilliant; brisbane; britain; british; broad; building; burke; business; busy; california; cape; capital; captain; care; cars; case; cathedral; catholic; cattle; caves; central; centre; century; certain; chance; chapter; character; charming; chief; children; chinaman; chinese; choice; christchurch; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civilization; civilized; class; classes; 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leaves; left; legitimate; length; level; liberal; library; lies; life; light; like; line; literature; little; live; living; local; locality; lofty; london; long; lovely; machinery; main; mainland; making; man; manner; maori; market; marvellous; material; matter; means; meat; melbourne; members; men; mention; metal; metropolis; middle; miles; miles long; millions; mind; mineral; miners; mining; missionaries; modern; moment; money; months; morning; mountain; murray; names; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; nearer; nearest; necessary; neighborhood; new; new south; new zealand; noble; north; northern; notes; number; numerous; object; observation; occasion; occupation; occupied; ocean; office; official; ohinemutu; open; operation; opium; opposite; order; ordinary; original; ornamental; oysters; pacific; page; palm; parametta; park; parts; passage; passengers; passes; past; pay; pearl; peculiar; penal; people; perfect; period; permanent; personal; persons; picturesque; pine; place; plains; 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sort; source; south; south australia; south sea; southern; space; spacious; special; species; specimens; spirit; spot; springs; square; standing; stands; stars; state; statistics; steam; steamers; sterling; stock; stone; story; strait; stranger; street; strong; structure; style; subject; substantial; suburbs; success; successful; sufficient; sugar; suitable; sulphurous; sum; summer; sun; supply; support; sure; surface; surprise; surroundings; sweet; sydney; system; tall; tasmania; taste; term; territory; thing; thoroughfares; thought; thousands; thrifty; time; tiny; tons; town; trade; traveller; trees; tribes; trip; tropical; trouble; true; united; unknown; use; usual; valley; valuable; value; varied; variety; vast; vegetables; vegetation; vessels; vicinity; victoria; view; villages; visible; visit; visitor; volcanic; volume; voyage; wales; walk; want; war; water; way; wealth; weapons; wear; weather; week; welcome; wellington; west; western; wharves; white; wide; width; wild; winding; windows; winds; winter; women; wonder; wood; wooded; wool; words; work; working; world; worn; worthy; writers; writing; years; yellow; yield; young; zealand
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- 3534
- author: Tench, Watkin
- title: A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
- date: None
- words: 67103
- flesch: 68
- summary: We therefore quitted the ship, wondering and lamenting that so large a portion of plain undisguised honesty should be so totally unconnected with a common share of intelligence, and acquaintance with the feelings and habits of other men. When the gum-tree in a tempest nods over them; or the rock overhanging the cavern in which they sleep threatens by its fall to crush them, they calculate (as far as their knowledge extends) on physical principles, like other men, the nearness and magnitude of the danger, and flee it accordingly.
- keywords: abaroo; account; acres; advanced; advantage; afford; afternoon; alarm; allowance; animal; appearance; approach; april; arabanoo; arms; arrival; articles; assistance; attention; august; bad; ball; baneelon; banks; barangaroo; bark; batavia; bay; beginning; behaviour; best; better; birds; blood; board; boat; body; botany; bread; brick; broken; bushels; canoe; cape; captain; cause; certain; chapter; character; children; circumstances; cleared; climate; close; coast; colbee; colony; common; complete; conduct; confidence; consequence; considerable; continued; conversation; convicts; cook; corps; countenance; country; countrymen; course; covered; creek; cross; cultivation; curiosity; cut; dawes; day; days; dead; death; december; degrees; departure; detachment; determined; different; difficulty; direction; discovery; distance; doubt; early; earth; effect; employed; england; equal; escape; evening; excellency; expedition; eye; fall; farm; farther; feet; field; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flour; following; follows; food; foot; force; form; fresh; friends; future; garden; general; good; government; governor; grass; great; greatest; ground; gum; gun; hair; half; hand; harbour; hatchet; hawkesbury; head; high; hill; hitherto; home; honour; hope; hospital; hours; house; humanity; hunter; husband; huts; inches; indians; information; instance; instant; intention; intercourse; island; jackson; john; johnson; july; june; justice; kangaroo; knowledge; known; labour; land; language; large; latitude; leave; left; leg; length; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; long; look; maize; man; manly; manner; march; marines; marks; matter; means; men; method; miles; minutes; moment; months; morning; names; nanbaree; natives; nature; near; necessary; nepean; new; night; norfolk; north; november; number; numerous; o'clock; object; observations; occasion; officers; old; ones; open; operation; opinion; opposite; order; particular; parties; party; passage; past; people; period; person; piece; place; pleased; point; pointed; poor; pork; port; possible; pounds; power; present; private; produce; progress; proper; protection; provisions; public; punishment; purpose; quarter; question; quit; reach; reader; reason; remarks; rest; return; rice; richmond; river; rocks; room; rose; salt; sea; search; second; sergeant; service; set; settlement; settlers; ship; shore; shot; similar; sirius; situation; small; society; soil; soldier; sort; south; sown; spear; spot; state; stick; stone; stores; stream; strong; subject; success; sufficient; summer; sun; superior; supply; surface; surprise; sydney; task; terms; thick; thought; time; transactions; trees; tribe; unarmed; utmost; vain; view; wales; want; war; watch; water; way; weather; week; west; whale; wheat; white; wife; wild; william; wind; women; wood; words; work; wound; years; young
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- 3535
- author: Tench, Watkin
- title: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
- date: None
- words: 24459
- flesch: 59
- summary: At seven o'clock in the evening of the 13th of October, we cast anchor in Table Bay, and found many ships of different nations in the harbour. Among many other troublesome parts of duty which the service we were engaged on required, the inspection of all letters brought to, or sent from the ships, was not one of the least tiresome and disagreeable.
- keywords: able; account; addition; advanced; air; anchor; animal; appearance; arrival; ball; bay; believe; better; birds; board; boat; botany; cape; captain; cause; chapter; close; colony; considerable; continent; convicts; cook; country; course; court; cove; custom; day; days; deg; degree; departure; different; direction; distance; doubt; east; effect; end; england; english; equal; europe; evening; excellency; expedition; extent; fish; fleet; following; french; fresh; furnished; future; garrison; general; good; government; governor; great; greatest; greenwich; ground; harbour; head; hitherto; hope; indians; information; inhabitants; island; jackson; janeiro; judge; justice; kangaroo; king; known; landing; large; latitude; law; left; length; lieutenant; like; little; live; long; longitude; man; manner; marines; means; men; miles; military; min; month; morning; natives; nature; near; necessary; new; night; north; number; numerous; observations; occasion; offence; officer; old; opinion; opportunity; order; party; passage; people; perrouse; persons; phillip; place; pleasure; point; port; possession; power; present; provisions; public; purpose; quantity; reader; reason; return; rio; saw; scarce; sea; search; security; service; settlement; ships; shore; single; sirius; situation; small; soil; south; spot; state; stay; stock; strangers; subject; sufficient; supply; teneriffe; time; town; trees; trial; troops; voyage; wales; want; water; west; wind; wish; women; work; world; years
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- 35583
- author: Pitcairn, W. D.
- title: Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea. With Introductory Notes on North Queensland.
- date: None
- words: 52533
- flesch: 77
- summary: He was one of the best specimens of New Guinea natives. Several New Guinea natives, clad in their native garments, waited at table, and first-class waiters they are.
- keywords: a.m.; agent; anchor; anchorage; anxious; appearance; archipelago; armed; arrival; astonishment; attempt; bad; bank; barrier; bau; bay; beach; beautiful; beauty; belford; best; betel; better; big; black; blowing; board; boat; boy; breeze; britain; british; building; bush; bye; bêche; camp; cane; canoes; cape; capital; captain; case; certain; channel; chapter; charge; chief; china; christmas; clear; climate; close; coast; coco; coffee; colour; company; considerable; cooktown; cool; copra; coral; country; couple; course; craft; creek; crew; cultivation; curious; customs; cutter; dangerous; dark; dawson; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; determined; different; difficulty; diggers; dim; dinghy; dinner; distance; distant; district; doubt; douglas; dwarf; early; east; egum; end; english; evening; excellent; expedition; f----h; face; fact; fair; family; far; fate; fear; feet; fellow; fever; find; fine; fire; fish; flat; following; food; foot; form; formation; free; fresh; friends; future; general; german; gold; good; government; governor; grass; great; group; guinea; hair; half; hand; harbour; hard; head; health; heavy; height; high; hills; hold; home; hours; house; hurricane; hygeia; idea; impossible; inches; inhabitants; interest; ireland; iron; island; journey; juanita; june; kind; known; labour; ladies; language; large; leaves; leaving; left; length; life; like; line; little; live; living; long; looking; lost; macgregor; mainland; man; manager; manner; march; mate; matter; means; men; miles; milne; mind; minutes; mioko; moment; money; months; moresby; morgan; morning; mount; mountains; mrs; musgrave; myrtle; narrow; natives; nature; necessary; new; new guinea; news; night; normanby; north; number; numerous; nut; nuts; ocean; open; opinion; opposite; order; owen; palm; party; passage; pay; people; piece; pipe; place; plantation; point; poor; population; port; position; prepared; present; previous; principal; prisoners; purpose; quantity; queensland; race; ralume; rate; ready; reason; reef; return; river; rocks; round; run; running; s----g; sago; sail; samarai; savages; scene; schooner; scrub; sea; set; shell; shore; sir; small; south; spear; spot; stanley; start; state; steep; straits; strange; strong; sud; sugar; sun; supply; surprise; temperature; terrible; tide; time; tin; tobacco; tons; trade; trading; trees; trial; trip; tropical; true; tube; turtle; unable; value; vessel; victoria; village; visit; viz; voyage; wagga; wari; water; way; weather; weeks; west; white; wife; wild; wind; women; wood; word; work; working; yams; yards; years; york; young
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- 36399
- author: Weitemeyer, Thorvald Peter Ludwig
- title: Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880)
- date: None
- words: 81825
- flesch: 84
- summary: They were all men in their prime, and if they did not work above their strength they were good men assuredly! They had simply taken in the situation more quickly than we; indeed it has become nearly a proverb in Queensland to say that a German will grow fat where other men will starve.
- keywords: account; afraid; air; alligator; appearance; australia; bad; bags; bank; beautiful; bed; beef; beer; best; better; big; blacks; board; boat; boss; bottle; bowen; bread; breakfast; brisbane; bullock; bush; camp; captain; care; carpenter; case; cattle; certain; chapter; charge; children; circumstances; clear; close; clothes; coast; common; company; conversation; cooktown; copenhagen; country; countryman; couple; course; creek; cross; crown; cut; danish; dark; day; days; dead; decided; deck; different; diggings; dinner; doctor; dogs; door; doubt; dozen; dressed; edition; employer; engaged; english; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; feet; fellow; find; fire; flour; food; fortune; free; friend; general; gentleman; german; girl; glad; gold; gone; good; great; half; hamburg; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; help; high; hold; home; hope; horses; hotel; hour; house; hunger; idea; immigrants; impression; information; intended; job; journey; joy; kind; kitchen; known; ladies; lady; large; leave; left; life; like; little; live; loaded; long; look; looking; lost; luck; lying; mackay; main; making; man; mariner; married; mate; matter; means; meat; men; miles; mind; moment; money; months; morning; near; necessary; negro; new; nice; night; o'clock; offer; old; open; order; ordinary; outside; page; palmer; passengers; past; pay; people; piece; pipe; place; plantation; plenty; point; poor; port; position; possible; potatoes; pounds; present; pretty; public; publican; purpose; queensland; rain; rations; ravenswood; reader; ready; reason; rest; return; ride; river; road; room; round; run; rush; saddle; satisfied; saw; saying; schooner; sea; second; series; set; shillings; ship; shipmates; shop; sick; sides; single; sixpence; sleep; small; sorry; sort; south; spirits; spot; standing; state; station; stay; steamer; sterling; strange; street; sufficient; sugar; sun; sunday; supper; sure; swag; table; talk; tea; tent; terrible; things; thinking; thorkill; thought; ticket; time; tired; tools; town; townsville; track; trade; trees; trouble; true; truth; understand; verandah; voyage; wages; walk; want; war; watch; water; way; week; white; wife; wish; woman; wonder; wooden; word; work; working; worth; years; young
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- 36763
- author: Stubbs, Laura
- title: Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a Pilgrimage
- date: None
- words: 11922
- flesch: 76
- summary: The entire population of the island seemed to have gathered together in a picturesque group on the shore to bid them farewell; and this group formed a brilliant foreground to our parting view of Tonga, with its green esplanade, its villa palace, its church and its white Government Offices, the latter of which stood boldly out against the groves of bananas and long feathery vistas of coconut palms.[2] We steamed out of the harbour of Nukualofa by a different passage to that by which we had entered, and before we passed the reef we had to make our way through a perfect network of little islands, all alike, palm-fringed and scattered about at random like flowers in a meadow. Outside these huts, sitting or standing, or lounging about in indolent inaction, were native men, women, and children--dear little brown-skinned babies, innocent of any attire save their original birthday suit, rolled and tumbled on the grass.
- keywords: air; apia; beautiful; black; blue; boat; books; bowl; brown; bush; captain; cave; chapter; chiefs; coconut; colour; cool; coral; count; day; days; death; deck; deep; effect; end; entrance; eyes; face; feet; flowers; forest; fro; fruit; garden; girls; good; grave; great; green; group; half; hall; hands; harbour; heart; hibiscus; high; home; hot; house; illustration; island; kava; ladies; left; letters; level; levuka; life; light; like; little; long; look; louis; lovely; loving; man; means; men; miles; morning; mountain; mrs; native; new; nukualofa; old; orange; page; palms; passage; path; place; pleasure; point; reef; road; robert; rock; samoa; sea; shells; shore; sorrow; spite; steamer; stevenson; story; strong; sun; surface; thing; time; tonga; town; trees; turf; tusitala; vailima; vavau; verandah; view; water; way; white; women; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; years
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- 37022
- author: Desmond, Valerie
- title: The Awful Australian
- date: None
- words: 17299
- flesch: 74
- summary: The position of office boy means that young Australia is paid ten shillings per week to look through the situations vacant column in his employer's paper every morning, and apply for all positions advertised at 15s. Australian women don't walk.
- keywords: able; accent; america; ankles; australian; australian accent; australian clubs; australian women; avenue; average; awful; bad; bear; beautiful; beauty; beer; beeswax; best; better; big; blank; body; book; boothby; boy; brisbane; britain; business; bust; busy; c.y.a; calf; case; chapter; city; class; classes; clever; club; colonial; commonwealth; constable; conversation; countries; country; course; court; cultured; daughters; day; days; deakin; dialect; difficult; display; doubt; drunk; early; england; english; evening; example; fact; family; father; fellow; figure; form; general; gentleman; girls; god; good; government; great; half; hand; head; henry; hips; holman; home; honour; hope; house; humour; idea; ill; john; kind; labour; lack; lands; language; large; late; legs; life; like; line; list; literary; little; local; london; long; lord; making; man; mannered; manners; matter; means; melbourne; members; miss; money; months; morning; national; native; natural; new; oath; office; old; order; paper; parliament; particular; party; people; person; phrases; places; poet; point; police; policeman; politician; poor; position; postage; power; present; press; proportion; public; remarks; result; returns; right; room; round; school; self; sense; slang; social; society; sort; south; squatter; standard; start; state; station; stephens; street; sucker; sydney; thing; thought; time; title; town; tropical; truth; verse; visitor; voice; wade; wales; way; week; wentworth; white; women; work; world; worse; wrong; years; young
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- 37825
- author: Cambridge, Ada
- title: Thirty Years in Australia
- date: None
- words: 91781
- flesch: 72
- summary: So we were early seated at a good breakfast, and a light buggy and a pair of strong, fast horses were brought round, to take us in good time to our destination. The new grave now looks very neat, slabbed all over; and the old burial-ground is ready to build on whenever good times arrive.
- keywords: account; accustomed; acquaintance; afternoon; air; alive; amateur; answer; anyrate; apart; arms; arrival; australia; available; baby; bad; bank; bay; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beds; beginning; believe; best; better; big; birds; bishop; bit; black; blue; board; boat; body; book; boom; box; boys; bread; breakfast; breaking; breath; bridge; brief; bright; british; broken; brother; buggy; building; bush; bushes; business; cabin; camp; candle; capital; captain; care; carriage; cart; case; cat; cathedral; certain; chance; chapter; character; charge; charming; children; choice; church; circumstances; city; class; clear; clergyman; clerical; climate; close; clothes; coach; cold; colonial; colony; colour; comfort; comfortable; coming; common; community; company; complete; concerned; concert; conditions; congregation; constant; contrary; cool; corner; cost; country; course; court; cradle; creatures; crowd; crowded; curate; cut; daily; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; delicious; delightful; difficulty; dik; dining; dinner; distance; distant; district; doctor; dog; dogs; domestic; door; dozen; drawing; dress; dressing; drive; driving; dutch; duty; early; earth; ease; easy; effect; england; english; equal; establishment; evening; event; excursions; exhibition; experience; eyes; face; fact; families; family; fashion; father; fault; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; field; fine; finest; fire; fish; floor; flowers; following; food; foot; force; free; fresh; friend; friendship; fruit; function; furniture; game; gap; garden; gate; general; gentleman; girl; glad; golden; good; government; governor; gown; grass; grave; great; greater; green; grey; group; guest; gun; hair; half; hands; happy; hard; head; health; heart; heavy; help; high; hills; history; hold; hole; holiday; home; honoured; hope; horses; hospital; host; hostess; hotel; hours; house; human; humble; husband; idea; impression; incumbent; intellectual; interesting; interests; intervals; job; journey; joy; keeping; kind; kindness; kitchen; knowledge; known; labour; ladies; lady; land; large; late; law; lay; leave; left; letters; level; life; like; line; little; lives; living; local; lodgings; london; lonely; long; long time; look; looking; lost; love; lunch; luxury; maid; main; making; man; manner; marked; married; matter; meal; means; meeting; melbourne; members; memory; men; mere; middle; miles; milk; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; months; morning; mother; murray; music; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; newspaper; nice; night; non; nose; note; notice; number; nurse; o'clock; occasion; odd; officers; official; old; ones; open; opportunity; order; ordinary; outside; owner; packed; paddock; pair; paper; parish; parishes; parsonage; particular; parties; party; passengers; past; path; patient; pay; people; perfect; person; picnic; picture; piece; place; plain; platform; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; pocket; point; police; political; poor; port; position; possession; possible; possum; post; power; premises; prepared; present; pretty; private; professional; proper; public; purpose; quality; quarters; question; quiet; quinces; race; railway; rain; rate; reach; reader; ready; real; recall; records; regret; respect; rest; result; return; rich; ride; riding; river; road; romantic; roof; room; rough; round; rule; run; sad; safe; satisfied; saturday; saw; scene; school; sea; season; seat; second; seeing; self; sense; servants; service; set; shearers; shillings; ship; shore; shut; sick; sister; sitting; situation; sky; sleep; small; smart; snakes; snow; social; society; soft; sorry; sort; south; special; spite; splendid; spot; spring; squatter; stand; state; station; steamer; step; stone; straight; strange; strangers; stream; street; strength; strike; strong; struggle; study; substantial; summer; sunday; supposed; sure; sweet; swing; sydney; table; talk; taste; tea; terms; thick; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; toby; touch; town; township; track; travelling; trees; tremendous; trip; trouble; true; turn; union; useful; usual; valuable; value; vehicle; verandah; victoria; view; visible; visit; voice; voyage; w----; walk; walls; want; warm; watch; water; way; ways; weather; wedding; week; welcome; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; window; winter; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wool; words; work; working; world; worst; worth; writing; yard; years; young; â£5
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- 38432
- author: Thomson, Basil
- title: The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
- date: None
- words: 150950
- flesch: 68
- summary: If this had been so, assuredly some steps would have been taken to see that _lala_ was only exacted by the proper landlords. At these seasons, if bananas are not obtainable, the natives subsist upon _ivi_ nuts, and unwholesome and indigestible fruits and roots, such as _yaka_ (_Pachyrrhizus angulatus_) or _kaile nganga_, or upon such wild yams as are obtainable.
- keywords: abortion; absolute; abstinence; account; action; actual; advantage; affected; africa; alive; american; ancestors; ancient; annual; appearance; approach; armed; arms; army; arrival; artificial; attack; attempt; authority; average; bad; bamboo; banana; bank; bark; barter; battle; bearing; beginning; belief; best; better; birth; black; blood; blow; board; bodies; body; boundaries; bowl; boys; branch; break; breaking; breast; bride; british; broken; building; bush; calls; cannibalism; canoe; captain; care; carpenters; carrying; case; castaways; cave; centuries; century; ceremonial; ceremony; certain; change; chant; chapter; character; chest; chief; chief village; children; christianity; city; civilization; civilized; claim; clan; class; classes; clear; close; cloth; club; coast; cocoanut; cold; colony; colour; coloured; command; commission; common; communal; communities; community; companions; company; concubitant; condition; confederations; connected; conquered; conquerors; conquest; consequence; considerable; constitution; contact; contagion; contempt; contrary; control; conversion; cooked; cord; corney; council; countries; country; courage; course; court; cousin; cousin,|first; cover; crew; cries; crime; cross; cry; curious; custom; customary; cut; cutting; daily; dance; dancing; danger; dangerous; date; day; days; dead; death; decay; deck; decrease; deep; defence; descendants; descent; description; desire; destruction; detail; development; diet; different; difficult; disease; distance; distant; distinction; district; divinity; door; doubt; drink; drinking; dry; dysentery; earlier; early; earth; eastern; eastward; easy; eating; effect; elders; eldest; enclosure; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; enormous; entire; epidemic; equal; equivalent; escape; europeans; evening; evidence; evil; evolution; example; exception; excitement; excuse; existence; expedition; extent; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; fallen; false; families; family; far; fashion; fate; father; favour; fear; feast; feet; fellow; female; field; fijian; fingers; fire; fish; fishermen; fishing; fit; fixed; flesh; following; food; footnote; forbidden; force; foreign; foreigners; forest; form; fornander; fortress; free; frequent; friends; fruit; future; game; garrison; general; generations; george; girls; god; goddesses; gods; good; government; governor; grass; grave; great; greater; ground; group; grown; growth; habit; hair; half; hand; handed; hard; hawaii; heads; heart; heathen; heavy; help; herald; hereditary; high; higher; highest; hill; historical; history; hold; holding; home; honour; hope; hot; hour; house; human; hurricane; husband; hut; idea; illustration; immigrants; important; inches; increase; indian; individual; industry; inferior; influence; inhabitants; injury; inland; inspired; instance; instinct; institutions; insult; intended; intercourse; interest; introduction; islanders; islands; isolated; john; journey; kai; kalou; kamba; kandavu; katalewe; kaunitoni; 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obvious; occasion; occupation; offence; offering; office; offspring; old; old men; open; operation; opinion; opposite; order; ordinary; origin; original; outbreak; outrigger; overlord; owner; ownership; pacific; pageheader; parents; parts; pass; passing; past; path; pay; peculiar; people; period; person; personal; physical; pigs; place; plant; plantations; planting; play; poem; point; policy; political; polygamy; polynesian; poor; popular; population; portion; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; practice; pregnancy; prepared; present; presentation; priest; primitive; principal; privileges; process; produce; professional; progress; proof; property; protection; province; public; punishment; pure; purpose; quarter; question; race; rank; rare; rate; ratu; reach; reaches; ready; real; reason; rebellion; rebels; recognized; reed; reef; regard; regular; regulation; related; relations; relationship; religion; religious; remains; remarkable; remote; removed.|once; respect; rest; result; return; rev; rewa; right; rise; rites; river; road; roko; rokola; root; rule; run; sacred; sacrifice; safe; sail; salt; samoa; sandal; savage; saw; saying; school; second; secret; seek; sense; serpent; services; set; settlement; sexual; shade; shark; shell; ships; short; sickness; sides; siege; similar; single; sir; sister; size; skill; skin; slain; sleep; small; smoking; social; society; soil; solevu; solid; sombasomba; somosomo; song; sons; sound; spear; special; spirit; spiritual; spot; spread; square; state; status; step; stick; stone; stop; strange; strangers; strangling; stream; strength; striking; strong; stronger; struggle; subject; success; succession; suckling; suffering; sufficient; sun; superior; supply; support; surface; suva; swamp; swimming; symptoms; system; table; tabu; tailevu; tanoa; taro; tattooing; tauvu; teachers; teeth; tell; temple; temporal; temporary; tenants; tenure; terms; terrible; territory; thakaundrove; thakombau; theory; things; thokovaki; thought; throw; tide; tie; time; title; tobacco; tonga; tongans; tools; tooth; total; totem; touch; town; trade; tradition; transfer; treachery; treatment; tree; tribal; tribe; tribute; true; truth; tui; turtle; turukawa; universal; unknown; usual; value; vanualevu; vasu; vei; verata; vere; vessel; vested; victim; view; village; virtue; visitors; vitality; vitilevu; viwa; voice; voyage; vunivalu; wai; want; war; warfare; warriors; wars; waste; water; waterhouse; way; weeks; weight; wesleyan; western; westward; wet; white; white men; wide; widows; wife; wild; williams; wind; wise; witchcraft; wives; wizard; women; wood; words; work; world; worship; worshippers; yams; yankona; yards; yasawa; yaws; years; young; young men; youths; | --------------+--------------+----------------+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------; | andi; | aunt; | brother; | daughter; | grandson; | luvena; | makumbuna; | mbuna; | ndauvena; | ndavolana; | nephew; | ngandinana; | nganena; | niece; | self; | son; | tamana; | tathina; | tavalena; | tinana; | tuakana; | uncle; | vungona; | |
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- 38649
- author: Palmer, Edward
- title: Early Days in North Queensland
- date: None
- words: 71255
- flesch: 69
- summary: From the Cloncurry through the Gregory to the Nicholson River is all good cattle country, but the grass seed along the banks of the watercourses, and the flooded nature of parts of the country in the rainy seasons, render it unfit for profitable sheep-farming. It helped to find markets for stock of all kinds and employment for thousands, and also to extend the settlement of the land and open up commerce with other countries, introducing immigrants or diggers, many of whom remained and settled in the country.
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- 38691
- author: Cotes, Everard
- title: Down Under with the Prince
- date: None
- words: 72686
- flesch: 74
- summary: The locks opened and closed with extraordinary speed and almost noiseless efficiency, and by the time the Prince had returned from inspecting the monster spillway and power-house, to which he was carried in a tiny train that was in readiness alongside the locks when we arrived, the _Calcutta_ was already entering the lake, while the _Renown_ had surmounted the locks and was only waiting to take on the Royal party before following in her wake. Calcutta_ and _Cambrian_ joined the _Renown_, the three vessels making a fine show as they lay together, decked with bunting, in the brilliant sunshine of the roadstead.
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- 39322
- author: Willoughby, Howard
- title: Australian Pictures, Drawn with Pen and Pencil
- date: None
- words: 69646
- flesch: 67
- summary: Thus the main dip is rather inland than outward, and this formation is fatal to great rivers. At length, however, they warmed up; other men from the camp gradually joined them; the ice was broken, and complete cordiality ensued; and Wong having given the message of which he was the bearer, that the long-expected Ngooraialum were coming, the conference broke up, the new-comer being at liberty to take his seat at any camp-fire, at which there was no women, which might suit his fancy.
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- 39361
- author: Maning, Frederick Edward
- title: Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845
- date: None
- words: 82147
- flesch: 75
- summary: I must, however, notice that these instances were only evasions of the _tapu_ of the ordinary kind, what I have called the personal _tapu_, not the more dangerous and dreadful kind connected with the mystic doings of the _tohunga_, or that other form of _tapu_ connected with the handling of the dead. Now one of the effects of this temporary extra _tapu_ was that the parties could not enter any regular dwelling-house, or indeed any house used by others.
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- 39495
- author: Queensland
- title: Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information
- date: None
- words: 128224
- flesch: 61
- summary: [but it must be stated that only part of the data for the years 1907 and 1908 is to hand]:-- ----------------------------+----------+-----------+--------------+-------- | Artesian | Pumped | Progress | Sunk by | Flows. | Increases, 1908. ------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------ CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ | CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ | CITIES AND TOWNS-- £ General Rates 46,208 | General Rates 150,744 | General Rates 104,536 | | Separate 4,845 | Separate} | Separate or | } 87,155 | Special 7,583 | Special } |
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- 39621
- author: Cook, Samuel
- title: The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland
- date: None
- words: 42257
- flesch: 69
- summary: Their infinite gradation may be fairly described by certain well-known lines, and substituting the word caves for the name of the most lively insects of the genus pulex-- Big caves have little caves And lesser caves about 'em; These caves have other caves, And so _ad infinitum_. Other caves also were explored, but it was found that the bones obtained from them were of recent origin.
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- 40003
- author: Pyke, William T. (William Thomas)
- title: Australian Heroes and Adventurers
- date: None
- words: 32601
- flesch: 66
- summary: In striking contrast to the efforts made by these new chums in getting rid of their superfluities in order to buy a suitable outfit for the diggings, were the dissipations and freaks of many returned diggers, who, having been lucky on the gold-fields, were now recklessly squandering their quickly-acquired wealth. The persistency of the officials' harshness, and the conduct of the Government in upholding it, were taken by many diggers as indications of their being regarded as a despicable portion of the population.
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- 40010
- author: Stoddard, Charles Warren
- title: Summer Cruising in the South Seas
- date: None
- words: 88191
- flesch: 73
- summary: It was something like sea life, wading along her submerged deck from morning till night, with a piece of raw junk in one hand and a briny biscuit in the other; we never _could_ keep a fire in _that_ galley; and as for hard tack, the sooner it got soaked through the sooner it was off our minds, for we knew to this complexion it must shortly come. A showman has little time to waste in mourning over his losses, however serious they may be.
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- 40305
- author: Fox, Frank
- title: Problems of the Pacific
- date: None
- words: 72752
- flesch: 60
- summary: The Imperialist tendency of United States policy is shown with particular clarity in the history of the Pacific Ocean. The Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (I include Canada because all the indications are that she will now fall into line with the other Pacific British nations), paying so much to the piper, will want to call the tune: and whereas British diplomacy with the United States is to-day a shade too deferential, Australasian and Canadian diplomacy possibly will fall into the other error.
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- 4052
- author: Johnson, Richard
- title: Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island
- date: None
- words: 12798
- flesch: 77
- summary: If, in direct opposition to this plain, precept, you will work and labour, as on other days, what ground can you have to expect that God will bless and prosper your undertakings? My times are in the hand of God.
- keywords: address; best; blessings; book; brethren; christ; conduct; consciences; daily; day; dead; death; desire; duty; eternal; evil; experience; faith; faithful; friends; future; god; good; gospel; grace; gracious; great; guilty; happiness; happy; hearts; heaven; holy; hope; iii; intreat; jesus; john; judge; judgment; knowledge; language; life; long; lord; man; matt; mercy; misery; new; open; peace; persons; plain; prayer; precious; present; profane; reason; religion; sabbath; sake; salvation; saviour; scriptures; sin; sinners; soul; spirit; state; things; time; true; trust; truth; vain; vii; way; world; worship
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- 4054
- author: Clacy, Charles, Mrs.
- title: A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
- date: None
- words: 54042
- flesch: 72
- summary: In the occasional visits that her pupil's father paid to his little girl, he could not fail to be struck by the sweet disposition and many other good qualities of her governess, and it ended by his making her his wife. During the first few miles, we went across many little creeks, in the neighbourhood of which were indications that the diggers had been at work.
- keywords: accommodation; account; adelaide; afternoon; air; alexander; appearance; arms; arrival; articles; auriferous; australia; average; awful; bad; ballarat; bark; bay; beautiful; bed; bendigo; best; better; black; blankets; blue; board; boat; bottle; box; bread; breakfast; bridge; bright; broken; brother; bush; business; camping; canvas; capital; captain; carrying; case; change; chapter; child; church; city; coffee; cold; collins; colonial; colonies; colony; commissioners; common; companion; coo; country; course; cradle; creek; cross; cry; cut; daily; damper; dark; day; days; dead; deep; degrees; departure; description; deserted; determined; different; diggers; diggings; dinner; direction; dirt; discovery; dish; distance; distant; dozen; dray; dress; dry; dust; eagle; early; earth; east; england; english; ere; escort; evening; excitement; eyes; fact; fair; family; father; feet; fellow; fields; fine; fire; flat; flour; following; food; foot; forest; fortune; frank; fresh; friday; friends; gay; geelong; gentleman; girl; gold; golden; good; government; great; greater; green; gregory; ground; gullies; gully; gum; half; hand; hard; harriette; hawk; head; heavy; help; high; hole; home; hope; horses; hours; house; husband; immense; increased; inn; iron; jessie; journey; known; kyneton; labour; lady; large; late; lay; leave; left; length; letters; licence; life; like; little; living; london; long; looking; lucky; man; manner; marriage; means; meat; meet; melbourne; men; metal; mike; miles; mind; minutes; moment; monday; money; month; morning; mother; mount; mud; native; necessary; neighbourhood; new; nice; night; nugget; number; numerous; octavius; office; ones; open; order; ounce; ovens; party; people; pick; piece; place; pleasant; pleasure; plenty; pocket; police; poor; portion; possible; post; pounds; present; pretty; previous; price; principal; public; quantity; quarters; rain; rapid; rate; reach; ready; return; richard; rise; river; road; room; rough; run; sad; said; saturday; saw; scarce; scene; sea; season; second; september; service; set; shade; sheep; shelter; shillings; ship; shipmates; shops; sides; situation; slight; small; soil; sort; south; spirits; spot; state; station; store; strange; street; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; sufficient; sum; summer; sunday; supply; surface; sydney; taking; tea; tent; thick; thought; timber; time; tin; tone; town; trees; trip; truth; tuesday; useless; usual; victoria; view; visit; voice; wales; walk; want; washing; water; way; weather; wednesday; week; weight; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; william; woman; wooden; words; work; working; world; worse; worth; yards; years; young
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- 41258
- author: Marsden, Samuel
- title: Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti
- date: None
- words: 96489
- flesch: 66
- summary: The Editor would make his kind acknowledgments to the Church Missionary and London Missionary Societies for the free use of the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Mr. Samuel Marsden in their hands; and to J. S. Nicholas, Esq., who accompanied Mr. Marsden on his first visit to New Zealand, for the use of a valuable manuscript account of his residence in New South Wales, containing much information respecting Mr. Marsden. Tooi and Teterree--Mr. Marsden's Second Voyage to New Zealand--Progress of the Gospel there--Shunghie--His ferocity--Mr. Marsden returns to New South Wales--Third Voyage to New Zealand--Malicious charges brought against him in his absence--A Commission of Inquiry--Its result--Letters, etc.--Approbation of the Government 129 The Bay of Islands, New Zealand (_Engraving_) 133 CHAPTER IX.
- keywords: 12mo; 18mo; able; aborigines; absence; accomplished; account; active; advantage; affairs; affection; affectionate; aid; answer; anxiety; anxious; appearance; arrival; assistance; attempt; attention; australia; authority; battle; bay; behalf; benevolent; best; bible; bishop; blacks; blessed; blessing; boards; boat; body; book; british; business; calling; cannibalism; canoe; captain; care; cast; cause; certain; chaplain; chapter; character; charge; chiefs; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; circumstances; civilization; civilized; close; cloth; colonial; colonists; colony; comfort; coming; committee; common; companions; company; complete; condition; conduct; confidence; connexion; consequence; considerable; consideration; constant; continued; conversion; convicts; country; countrymen; courage; course; court; danger; darkness; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; december; deck; deep; defence; degree; determined; devoted; die; different; difficulties; difficulty; distance; distant; divine; doubt; duaterra; duties; duty; early; earth; easy; education; engaged; england; english; enterprise; equal; esq; establishment; eternal; europeans; evening; evidence; evil; example; exertions; expected; expense; experienced; express; extent; eye; eyes; face; factory; faith; faithful; fall; family; father; fear; feelings; felons; felt; female; field; fine; firm; following; food; force; foreign; foundation; france; free; french; fresh; friendly; friends; future; general; george; glory; god; good; gospel; government; governor; grant; grateful; grave; great; greater; greatest; ground; habits; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; harbour; hard; head; health; heart; heathen; heaven; heavy; high; highest; history; hitherto; hold; holy; home; honour; hope; hours; house; howe; human; husband; hut; importance; infant; influence; informed; inhabitants; inquiry; instance; interest; introduction; islands; jackson; jesus; john; joseph; journal; journey; joy; judgment; justice; kind; kindness; king; kingdom; know; knowledge; koro; labours; lady; language; large; late; law; lay; leave; left; leigh; length; letter; liberty; life; like; little; lives; living; london; long; longer; look; lord; loss; lost; love; macquarie; magistrates; man; manner; maori; maories; marsden; mason; master; means; measure; meeting; members; men; mere; messrs; miles; military; mind; minister; ministerial; ministry; missionaries; missionary; missionary society; missions; moment; months; moral; morning; mother; mrs; muskets; nation; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; necessity; new; new south; new zealand; new zealanders; nicholas; night; noble; notes; notice; number; object; obliged; occasion; office; officers; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; painful; paramatta; parish; parts; passage; paul; penal; people; period; person; personal; piety; pious; place; pleased; pleasure; point; poor; population; possible; pounds; power; practical; pratt; prayer; prepared; presence; present; principal; principles; prisoners; private; progress; project; proper; property; protection; protestant; providence; public; pulpit; purpose; queen; question; race; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; regard; religion; religious; remark; report; request; respect; rest; return; rev; room; royal; sabbath; sacred; safety; sail; sailors; salvation; samuel; samuel marsden; satisfaction; savage; saviour; scene; school; scripture; sea; seas; second; secretary; self; sense; servants; service; set; settlement; settlers; share; ship; shores; short; shunghie; sick; simple; single; sir; sitting; situation; sleep; small; societies; society; solemn; soul; south; southern; spirit; spiritual; spot; state; statement; station; storm; strange; strength; strong; subject; success; successful; sufficient; sunday; superior; support; sydney; tahiti; tahitian; terms; things; thomas; thought; time; tooi; trials; tribes; triumph; true; trust; truth; unknown; unto; usual; vain; valuable; value; vast; venerable; vessel; view; visit; voyage; wales; want; war; warm; water; way; welfare; wesleyan; wife; wild; williams; wisdom; wise; wish; wished; women; words; work; world; worship; years; young; zealanders
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- 41270
- author: Grimm, George
- title: The Australian Explorers: Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements Being a Narrative of Discovery from the Landing of Captain Cook to the Centennial Year
- date: None
- words: 63497
- flesch: 65
- summary: Burke and Wills were not found, of course, but much good country was discovered and the geography of Northern Australia materially advanced. Much good country had been traversed before this point was reached; indeed, the whole of this route was a surprise in this respect, as it had been expected to land them in a great central desert.
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- 41451
- author: Anderson, Isabel
- title: The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
- date: None
- words: 79991
- flesch: 71
- summary: Good men have given their lives for it, and few of those who lived have come out after years of thankless toil in a tropical land, with as much as they had when they went into the service. There we went to the town hall and had a banquet with many brown men and a few little brown women.
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- 41716
- author: Greenbie, Sydney
- title: The Pacific Triangle
- date: None
- words: 132245
- flesch: 72
- summary: And so I did, as did other white men who arrived, without being stopped. Stevenson he dismissed with, Well, you know, after all he was just like other men.
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leadership; leaves; left; legislation; legs; lest; level; lies; life; like; likely; line; little; living; loans; long; longing; look; loose; lost; love; loveliness; lovely; low; maidens; main; makes; making; man; manchuria; mandate; manila; manner; maories; market; marriage; married; masses; material; matter; meal; means; meet; meeting; melbourne; members; memory; men; menace; mere; method; miles; military; mill; mind; minister; minutes; missionaries; missionary; mist; mixed; mixture; modern; moment; money; monroe; months; moon; morning; mother; motor; mountains; mud; music; mystery; naked; narrow; nation; native; natural; nature; navy; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; need; new; new life; new york; new zealand; niagara; night; north; nose; notions; number; numerous; o'clock; object; obvious; occasion; occupation; ocean; officer; offspring; old; open; opening; opinion; opportunity; order; ordinary; oriental; origin; outer; outside; outward; pacific; palm; parliament; party; pass; passengers; passing; passion; past; path; pay; peaks; people; perfect; period; permit; person; personal; phase; philippines; photo; picture; pier; pink; place; plain; play; playing; pleasure; point; pointed; policeman; policy; political; polynesians; poor; population; port; portuguese; position; possession; possible; poverty; power; presence; present; pressure; pretty; pride; primitive; problem; process; professor; progress; promises; propinquity; protection; proud; public; purposes; quarters; question; quiet; race; racial; railroads; railway; rain; raised; reaches; ready; real; reality; reason; recognition; red; reefs; regard; regions; relations; relationship; relief; remains; republic; respect; result; return; review; rewa; rich; rights; rise; river; road; rock; romance; romantic; roof; room; rose; round; route; rule; run; russia; sail; salvation; samoa; samoans; satisfaction; satisfied; savage; scheme; school; scientific; sea; search; seas; second; section; secure; seeing; self; sense; sentimental; separate; seq; set; setu; shade; shadows; shanghai; shantung; sheer; shintoism; ship; shops; short; shy; sign; silence; silent; simple; single; situation; sky; sleep; small; smoke; smooth; sober; social; soft; soldiers; solution; song; soul; source; south; space; spanish; special; spirit; spread; square; stand; standard; state; statement; station; status; steady; steamer; step; stevenson; stone; story; straight; strange; stream; street; strength; strong; structure; struggle; study; subject; sugar; suit; summer; sun; sunday; superior; superiority; support; sure; surface; suva; sweet; sydney; system; tahiti; talk; tall; terms; things; thinking; thought; thousands; time; tiny; toil; touch; town; trade; traders; treaty; trees; tremendous; triangle; tropical; tropics; trouble; true; truth; turning; tusitala; type; unconscious; understanding; union; united; unknown; valley; value; vast; vessel; view; village; virtue; visit; voices; volcano; waiting; walk; walls; want; war; warm; water; waves; way; ways; weeks; welfare; wellington; west; western; westward; white; white man; wide; wife; wild; willing; wind; wish; women; wonder; wooden; words; work; working; world; worse; worthy; wrong; years; yellow; york; young; zealand
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- 42228
- author: Hamilton-Browne, G.
- title: Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion
- date: None
- words: 86579
- flesch: 72
- summary: Old men and women would crawl out of their huts, stragglers would hurry up to join the throng, until every man, woman and child belonging to the tribe would be rocking and wailing as if their very heart-strings had been wrung with woe by the most personal disaster. They had plenty of good men, both friendly natives and volunteers, with a sufficiency of Armed Constabulary (the Colonial Regulars) to give them backbone, but the officers (unfortunately) considered discretion to be the better part of valour and mistook timidity for prudence, so much so that they missed their chance and covered themselves with something like disgrace.
- keywords: able; action; advance; africa; afternoon; air; alive; ammunition; ancient; answer; anxious; appearance; arawa; armed; arms; army; assistance; attack; attempt; attention; awful; bad; bank; bar; bay; bed; believe; best; better; big; birds; bit; black; blood; bloodthirsty; blow; boat; body; boers; bones; book; booth; bottle; boy; boys; british; broken; brother; burst; bush; bushed; bushrangers; business; camp; canoe; captain; carbine; care; carrying; cart; case; cattle; certain; chance; chapter; charge; chief; children; christian; chum; clear; close; coast; cold; colonel; colonial; column; command; company; considerable; convinced; conway; country; couple; courage; course; cover; crazy; creek; crew; cross; crossing; crowd; custom; cut; dance; danger; dangerous; dark; date; davy; day; daylight; days; dead; dear; death; deep; defenders; dense; desperate; determined; devil; dinner; direction; distance; district; doctor; door; doubt; dress; drift; drink; duty; early; earth; east; edge; end; enemy; english; escape; evening; events; exception; expected; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; fallen; family; fancy; far; fast; father; fear; feet; fellow; fence; fern; field; fighting; fine; fire; firing; fish; fit; flat; following; folly; food; foot; force; free; fresh; friendly; friends; frontier; fun; gallant; game; gang; general; george; ginger; girls; glass; god; good; government; great; greatest; guard; guest; gullies; gully; gun; guns; haimona; half; hand; hard; hau; hau hau; haus; head; heavy; help; helpless; high; hill; hold; home; honour; hori; horse; hot; hotel; hours; huge; hut; illustration; information; island; jack; jampot; job; joined; journey; king; knees; knife; kooti; lake; large; late; law; lay; leading; leave; left; legion; life; like; likely; line; little; lives; long; look; lord; loss; lost; lot; love; lower; luck; mad; majority; man; manner; maori; march; marire; matene; mates; matter; men; mike; miles; mind; minutes; mohaka; moment; morning; mountains; muskets; natal; natives; nature; near; necessary; net; new; news; night; noble; non; north; number; numerous; o.c; occasion; officers; old; open; order; pah; pai; parties; party; pass; past; people; period; pieces; pierre; pipe; place; play; plenty; point; poor; position; possessed; possible; potatoes; poverty; powder; present; previous; principal; prisoners; pull; purpose; quarters; queer; quiet; range; rapid; ready; rear; red; regiment; relations; religion; remainder; remains; rest; return; revolver; rewi; ride; riding; rifle; risk; river; road; rough; round; route; rum; run; rush; saddle; safety; said; savages; save; scout; search; second; sentry; sergeant; settlers; sharp; ship; short; shots; shoulder; shouting; sides; single; sir; sleep; small; smoke; soldiers; south; splendid; spot; stand; start; starting; state; station; stock; stone; stop; story; stranger; strong; successful; sufficient; sure; surprised; swim; swimming; tangi; tapu; taua; taupo; tea; teeth; thanks; thing; thinking; thirst; thought; time; tobacco; tomahawk; tot; touch; track; tree; trek; tremendous; trenches; tribe; trooper; troops; trouble; true; truth; turn; turning; unable; unfortunate; upper; use; usual; utu; village; visit; voice; volley; waggons; waikato; wanganui; want; war; warriors; wars; water; way; welcome; west; white; white men; wild; wind; women; wonderful; words; work; world; wounded; wrong; yards; yarn; years; yer; young; zealand; zulu
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- 4237
- author: Eden, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
- title: Australian Search Party
- date: None
- words: 31612
- flesch: 60
- summary: Our regret was great at getting no more certain information, but although we persevered in digging until sundown, no casket of jewels, no bags of specie, and no mysterious parchments rewarded us; and with the darkness we were compelled to abandon our search, rather angry at having wasted several valuable hours to such little purpose. We now turned our attention to getting sufficient provisions cooked to last the exploring party for three days, as we were determined to employ the utmost vigilance, and show as little smoke as possible, for nothing creates such suspicion amongst the aboriginals as seeing fresh fires constantly lighted, unless accompanied by the smoke signals, which I have described in a former chapter.
- keywords: account; afternoon; animal; appearance; approach; armed; arms; australian; bank; bark; bay; beach; beautiful; belt; best; better; big; bird; blacks; boat; body; bora; bower; boy; boys; breakfast; broken; bush; bushman; camp; canoes; carbine; cardwell; case; cato; certain; channel; circle; clear; cleveland; close; coast; colour; common; companions; considerable; country; couple; course; creek; crew; curious; damper; daylight; days; dead; death; deep; depths; description; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; doubt; dozen; dunmore; eating; eden; effect; end; english; european; evening; expedition; eyes; fact; fate; fear; feet; fellow; ferdinand; find; fire; fish; following; foot; form; fresh; game; garden; gins; good; gould; grass; great; greatest; gun; habit; half; hand; hard; having; head; heart; heavy; herbert; high; hinchinbrook; hold; hole; hope; hour; huge; immediate; inches; information; island; jack; kangaroo; kind; knowledge; known; large; leaves; left; length; like; likely; line; little; lizzie; long; looking; loss; lost; macalister; mackay; man; mass; means; men; miles; mind; minutes; mischief; moment; morning; native; natural; nature; nearer; necessary; neighbourhood; nest; new; night; north; number; o'clock; oil; old; open; party; past; peculiar; piece; pigeons; pilot; place; plain; plenty; poor; portion; position; possible; practice; present; pretty; purpose; range; reader; ready; report; return; river; rock; rockingham; round; rude; run; sail; sand; scrub; search; sharp; shell; short; size; skin; sleep; slightest; small; smoke; smooth; snake; south; spear; spot; standing; stood; straight; strong; sufficient; sun; sure; surface; tail; task; tea; tedious; thick; things; thought; tide; time; tomahawk; township; tree; tribe; troopers; unknown; use; useless; utmost; vessel; walk; watch; water; way; weapons; whale; white; wild; wind; wood; work; yards; young
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- 4328
- author: Sturt, Charles
- title: Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I
- date: None
- words: 74193
- flesch: 65
- summary: From the range he looked in vain for the Macquarie, or other waters, and, as his provisions were nearly consumed, he was obliged to give up all further pursuit, and to retrace his steps. I had learnt, by experience, that it was impossible to form any opinion of the probable features of so singular a region as that in which I was wandering, from previous appearances, or to expect the same result, as in other countries, from similar causes.
- keywords: abundance; acacia; account; advanced; afternoon; alluvial; animals; anxious; appearance; arrival; attention; australia; bad; banks; barren; bathurst; bearing; beautiful; bed; best; better; blue; boat; body; bore; box; breadth; broad; brush; brushes; bullocks; camp; case; castlereagh; cataract; cattle; causes; chain; change; channel; chapter; character; circumstances; clear; climate; close; coast; colonial; colony; compass; condition; conduct; consequence; considerable; continued; country; course; creek; crossing; cunningham; current; cypresses; darling; day; days; deep; degrees; dense; depth; description; determined; different; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; doubt; drought; dry; early; eastern; eastward; effect; equal; evening; evident; examination; excellency; excursion; expedition; experience; extensive; extent; extreme; extremity; fact; fall; favourable; features; feet; fine; fire; fish; flooded; flow; following; food; forest; formation; forward; foster; frequent; fresh; general; geological; good; government; governor; grass; great; greater; ground; group; growth; gum; half; hand; harris; head; heat; height; high; hill; hope; horizon; horses; hour; hume; immediate; importance; impossible; impression; improvement; increase; inland; interior; inundation; journey; junction; kind; labour; lake; land; large; late; left; length; level; like; line; little; loam; long; longer; macquarie; macquarie river; man; manner; marshes; means; measure; men; miles; mind; minor; minutes; moment; morning; mount; mountains; n.e; n.w; natives; nature; near; necessary; neighbourhood; new; north; northerly; northward; number; numerous; object; observations; old; open; opinion; opposite; order; ordinary; oxley; p.m.; particular; party; pendula; people; perseverance; place; plains; point; ponds; position; present; probable; progress; provisions; purpose; question; rain; range; reach; red; reeds; remarkable; remarks; report; result; return; rich; right; river; river water; rock; rose; running; s.w; safety; salt; sandy; saw; scrub; sea; search; seasons; second; settlement; settlers; short; similar; singular; situation; size; small; soil; south; southern; southward; space; species; spot; state; station; stream; subject; success; sufficient; summit; sun; supplies; supply; surface; surveyor; sydney; table; tents; termination; thought; timber; time; total; track; tracts; travelling; trees; tribe; use; valley; vegetation; view; visible; wales; want; water; way; wellington; westerly; western; westward; white; wild; wood; wool; yards; year
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- 4329
- author: Sturt, Charles
- title: Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2
- date: None
- words: 75902
- flesch: 67
- summary: The angle formed by the Darling with the new river is so acute, that neither can be said to be tributary to the other; but more important circumstances, upon which it is impossible for me to dwell at the present moment, mark them as distinct rivers, which have been formed by Nature for the same purposes, in remote and opposite parts of the island. They understood perfectly, by my pointing to the sky, and by other signs, that I was inquiring about large waters, but they could not, or would not, give any information on the subject.
- keywords: accident; account; afternoon; alluvial; angle; animals; anxiety; anxious; appearance; approach; aspect; attention; aware; banks; barker; barren; base; bay; beautiful; bed; better; blacks; boat; body; bore; branches; breadth; broad; broken; camp; cape; captain; case; centre; certain; change; channel; chapter; character; circumstances; clear; cliffs; close; coast; colony; colour; communication; consequence; considerable; consideration; continued; country; course; creek; crossing; current; cut; danger; dark; darling; day; days; deep; degrees; depot; depth; description; determined; different; difficult; direction; disposition; distance; distant; doubt; early; eastward; effect; elevated; elevations; encounter; evening; evident; examination; exhausted; expedition; extended; extensive; extent; extreme; extremity; eye; fact; fallen; favourable; features; feet; fire; fish; flats; flooded; following; forest; formation; fraser; frequent; fresh; friend; general; geological; george; good; grass; great; greater; ground; gulf; gum; half; hand; harris; head; heavy; height; high; hills; hopes; hopkinson; hour; idea; impossible; intercourse; interior; island; jervis; journey; junction; kent; kind; labour; lachlan; lake; land; large; late; left; length; level; line; little; lofty; long; longer; loss; low; lower; m'leay; macquarie; man; manner; marshes; means; measure; men; miles; mind; minor; minutes; moment; morning; morumbidgee; mount; mountains; murray; n.e; n.w; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; neighbourhood; new; new river; noon; north; notice; number; numerous; oars; object; observations; occasion; ocean; old; open; opposite; order; p.m.; party; passage; people; place; plain; point; pondebadgery; poor; position; present; probable; progress; provisions; purpose; quarter; quiet; rain; ranges; rapid; reach; reaches; reader; red; reeds; remarkable; remarks; return; rich; right; river; rock; rose; running; s.e; s.w; sand; saw; scrub; sea; second; shells; short; similar; singular; situation; size; skiff; small; soil; south; southern; space; spears; species; spot; state; station; stream; strength; strong; subject; success; sufficient; summit; sunset; surprised; survey; sydney; task; tents; termination; thing; thought; timber; time; trees; tribe; turbid; upper; use; usual; valley; vast; vegetation; view; vincent; visible; w.n.w; water; way; weather; westward; white; wild; wind; women; wood; wooded; work; yards; yass; young
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- 4330
- author: Sturt, Charles
- title: Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete
- date: None
- words: 149906
- flesch: 66
- summary: It appears, therefore, that all the interior rivers we know of to the northward of the Morumbidgee, belong to the basin of the Karaula; this stream flowing southward, and hence the disappearance of the Macquarie and other lower rivers may be understood, for all along the banks of the Karaula, the Gwydir, and the Nammoy, the country, though not swampy, bears marks of frequent inundation; thus the floods occasioned by these rivers united, cover the low country, and receive the Macquarie so that no channel marks its further course. The fitting out of another expedition was accordingly determined upon; and about the end of September 1829, I received the Governor's instructions to make the necessary preparations for a second descent into the interior, for the purpose of tracing the Morumbidgee, or such rivers as it might prove to be connected with, as far as practicable.
- keywords: absence; abundance; abundant; acacia; accident; account; advanced; afternoon; alarm; alluvial; angle; animals; anxiety; anxious; apparent; appearance; approach; arrival; aspect; attempt; attention; australia; aware; bad; banks; barker; barren; base; bay; bearing; beautiful; bed; bend; best; better; birds; blacks; blue; boat; body; bore; box; branches; breadth; break; broad; broken; brush; brushes; bullocks; camp; cape; captain; case; castlereagh; cataract; cattle; causes; centre; certain; chain; change; channel; chapter; character; chief; circumstances; clay; clear; cliffs; climate; close; coast; colonial; colony; colour; communication; compass; condition; conduct; consequence; considerable; consideration; continued; convinced; country; course; creek; crossing; current; cut; cypresses; danger; dark; darling; darling river; day; days; dead; deep; degrees; delay; dense; departure; depot; depressed; depth; description; determined; different; difficulties; difficulty; direction; disappointed; discovery; disposition; distance; distant; dogs; doubt; drought; dry; early; earth; eastern; eastward; effect; elevated; elevation; encounter; endeavoured; equal; evening; evident; examination; excellency; excursion; exhausted; expedition; experience; extended; extensive; extent; extreme; extremity; eye; eyes; fact; fall; fallen; fast; fate; favourable; features; feelings; feet; fine; fire; fish; fixed; flats; flooded; floods; flour; flow; flowing; following; food; force; forest; formation; forms; forward; foster; fowl; fraser; frequent; fresh; friend; future; gain; general; geological; good; government; governor; granite; grass; great; greater; ground; group; growth; gulf; gum; half; hand; harris; head; heat; heavy; height; high; higher; hills; hold; hollow; hope; hopkinson; horizon; horses; hour; hume; huts; idea; immediate; importance; impossible; impression; improvement; increase; influence; instance; intention; intercourse; interior; inundation; island; jervis; journey; junction; kangaroo; kent; kind; knowledge; known; labour; lachlan; lake; land; large; large river; late; latitude; leave; left; length; level; like; limestone; line; little; loam; lofty; long; longer; loss; low; lower; m'leay; macquarie; macquarie river; main; man; manner; marked; marshes; means; measure; men; miles; mind; minor; minutes; moment; morning; morumbidgee; mount; mountains; murray; n.e; n.n.w; n.w; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; neighbourhood; new; new river; noon; north; northerly; northern; northward; notice; number; numerous; oars; object; observations; occasion; ocean; old; open; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; overflow; oxley; p.m.; parallel; particular; party; passage; passing; pendula; people; perseverance; place; plains; point; polygonum; ponds; poor; position; practicable; prepared; present; previous; principal; probable; progress; proper; provisions; purpose; quarter; quartz; question; rain; range; rapid; reach; reaches; reader; reason; red; reeds; regard; regular; remains; remarkable; remarks; remote; report; respect; result; retreat; return; rich; right; rise; river; river line; river water; rock; rose; running; s.e; s.w; safety; salt; sand; sandstone; satisfaction; savage; saw; scattered; scene; scrub; sea; search; seasons; second; servant; service; settlers; sheep; shells; short; sides; similar; single; singular; sir; situation; size; skiff; small; soil; south; southern; southward; space; spears; species; spot; state; station; stock; stream; strength; strong; sturt; subject; success; sufficient; summit; sun; sunset; supplies; supply; surface; surprised; survey; sydney; table; task; tents; termination; thick; thing; thought; timber; time; track; tracts; travelling; trees; tribe; unable; unbroken; uncertain; unusual; use; usual; valley; vast; vegetation; view; vincent; visible; wales; want; water; way; weak; weather; wellington; westerly; western; westward; white; wild; wind; women; wood; wooded; wool; work; yards; yass; year; young
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- 43425
- author: Nixon-Roulet, Mary F.
- title: Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin
- date: None
- words: 25261
- flesch: 90
- summary: I like black people, said little Jean. The miners often strike a good lead and grow very rich, but it is a hard life and especially so in the districts where there is little water.
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- 43462
- author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
- title: Our Little Hawaiian Cousin
- date: None
- words: 16427
- flesch: 88
- summary: But what cares little Auwae for all this? There the old Hawaiian minister tells his little flock every Sunday of the One True God, and of the loving Friend who said: Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
- keywords: adventures; air; aloha; american; auwae; beautiful; beings; best; blue; boards; boat; boy; bright; brown; canoes; captain; care; chapter; chief; children; clear; clothing; coming; company; cook; coral; country; cousin=; crater; days; different; dinner; eyes; family; far; father; fear; feet; fire; fish; flowers; food; friend; girl; glad; goddess; good; grand; grass; great; ground; hands; happy; hard; hawaiian; head; high; hiko; home; house; illustration; inside; island; kilauea; kind; king; known; large; lava; life; like; little; little auwae; little brown; little girl; little story; live; living; long; mary; mcmanus; men; miles; moment; morning; mother; new; night; nixon; old; page; palm; party; pass; passes; pele; people; pink; place; poi; power; puritan; race; red; ride; roulet =; sand; satisfied; school; sea; shore; small; sport; stones; stories; story; strange; surf; sweet; taro; things; thought; time; tired; trees; upa; village; volcano; volume; water; wave; way; white; wish; woman; word; work; years; young
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- 43573
- author: Thomson, Basil
- title: Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga
- date: None
- words: 51437
- flesch: 68
- summary: He has gone through life in a deadly earnest, beside which the purpose in other men was but the purpose of butterflies. And as the Niuéans have as yet few wants, and are subject to no sudden calls for money, they leave tree-planting alone, and expend their energy in road-making, in house-building, and in working for white men in other islands.
- keywords: able; account; admiral; afternoon; air; alofi; ancestors; ancient; appearance; armed; arrival; avatele; baker; band; battle; beach; belief; best; better; black; blind; blue; board; boat; bodies; body; boys; british; building; bush; business; canoes; captain; case; cave; certain; change; chapter; chiefs; children; church; cliff; close; cloth; club; coast; cocoanuts; code; colony; common; company; compound; consul; cook; copra; coral; council; country; course; court; crime; crowd; curious; custom; cut; dance; day; days; dead; death; difficult; dignity; disease; distance; door; doubt; early; earth; end; enemy; england; english; entertainment; european; export; eye; eyes; face; fact; fall; families; family; far; fashion; fatafehi; father; features; feet; fekai; fiji; finau; fine; fire; flag; floor; flying; fono; food; footnote; foreign; form; free; french; friends; gentleman; george; germans; gestures; girls; gods; good; government; grass; grave; great; greater; green; grey; ground; group; guard; guns; h.m.s; hair; half; hand; harbour; hard; hats; hayes; head; health; heathen; heaven; help; high; history; home; honour; hour; house; human; illustration; influence; interesting; interpreter; intervals; iron; island; islanders; jack; john; justice; kind; king; kingdom; known; labour; ladies; lakalaka; landing; language; large; late; lawes; lay; leave; left; life; light; like; limestone; line; little; live; living; london; long; looking; lord; majesty; making; man; manners; mariner; matter; mau'i; means; meeting; member; men; mere; middle; miles; mind; minister; mission; missionaries; missionary; money; months; morning; mother; music; native; natural; nature; near; need; new; niué; niuéans; nukualofa; number; object; officers; oil; old; open; order; otuhaka; pacific; paddle; page; party; passage; passing; past; pay; people; performance; person; place; plantations; planting; point; polynesian; poor; population; porpoise; portrait; possession; post; practice; present; priests; private; procession; protection; protectorate; public; queen; race; rare; real; reason; red; reef; relations; return; road; rock; roof; room; royal; run; running; salute; samoa; savage; saw; school; sea; second; seeing; sense; sentence; seq; set; ship; shore; similar; single; small; society; south; space; spear; speech; spirit; spot; square; standing; state; stone; story; strong; subjects; sun; surface; system; tahiti; tau; teachers; thanks; things; thought; throne; till; time; title; tonga; tongans; town; traders; tradition; treaty; trees; true; tuapa; tui; tungi; turn; uniform; unknown; vavau; vessel; village; visit; visitors; voice; walls; war; warriors; water; way; webber; weeks; wesleyan; white; wide; wife; williams; wind; women; wooden; words; work; working; world; yards; years; young; zealand
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- 43824
- author: Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
- title: In the Track of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis
- date: None
- words: 112199
- flesch: 63
- summary: On the occasion of great feasts or celebrations, where large crowds are present, it is customary to dance the _siva_ out-of-doors and in the daytime. It is at this point in the original _kava_ ceremony that the _taupo_ proceeded to masticate the bits of root and stem to a proper consistency to be dissolved in water, but this part of the recipe is no longer followed amongst the enlightened natives of the coastal villages, to whom the risks of spreading infection by such a practice have been thoroughly brought home.
- keywords: able; absinthe; accomplished; account; action; active; addition; advantage; affairs; afternoon; aid; air; aloha; altered; american; anchor; anchorage; ancient; animal; apia; apparent; arms; arrival; attention; australian; average; bad; baffling; ball; bananas; band; bank; barometer; base; bathing; batsman; bay; beach; beam; bear; beat; beaters; beating; beautiful; began; beginning; bertie; best; better; big; bit; black; blood; blowing; blue; blur; boar; boat; bodies; body; bones; boom; boraki; bottle; bound; bowl; bowling; bows; box; boy; boys; breakers; breeze; bright; british; broken; brown; bush; business; cabin; calm; cannibal; cannon; canoe; canvas; capital; captain; care; carrying; case; centre; century; cercle; certain; chance; chapter; character; charge; chief; children; chorus; christ; circumstances; claribel; clark; clear; cliff; close; cloud; club; coast; cockpit; coco; coconut; colonial; colony; colour; combination; coming; commodore; common; company; complete; conditions; considerable; construction; contents; contest; cook; cool; copra; coral; corner; couple; course; craft; crater; crew; cricket; cross; cruise; cup; current; custom; cut; cutlass; cutter; cutting; dance; dancers; dancing; danger; dark; darkness; day; daybreak; days; dead; deal; death; decided; deck; deep; degree; departure; depths; description; devil; different; dinner; direction; distance; distant; distinguished; doctor; dogs; door; double; doubt; dozen; dream; drink; drinking; drive; driving; drum; dry; dull; duty; e.s.e; early; earth; east; eastern; easy; edge; effect; effort; end; endeavour; english; entertainment; entrance; epu; equal; evening; event; excitement; experience; expression; extra; eyes; face; fact; fair; falling; famous; fancy; fanua; farewell; fashion; fast; father; fauga; favourable; feasts; feeling; feet; figure; fiji; fijian; final; fine; fingers; finished; fire; flash; flat; floor; flying; foam; fog; following; food; foot; force; foreign; forenoon; foresail; forestay; form; forward; fourth; frame; francisco; free; french; fresh; friends; fruit; gait; gale; game; gate; general; gentle; german; girls; glass; glistening; goat; gold; golden; good; government; governor; great; green; grey; ground; group; guests; gunboat; haie; hair; half; hand; harbour; hard; hatiheu; hawaii; hawaiian; head; headed; heart; heavens; heavy; height; high; highest; hilo; hilyard; himine; history; holakau; hold; hole; hollow; home; honolulu; honour; horizon; horses; host; hot; hour; house; hove; huge; hula; human; hunt; hunting; hurricane; idea; illustration; images; important; inch; inches; incident; inevitable; influence; instant; interest; interior; intervals; iron; island; jib; john; judge; june; kanaka; kava; keen; keeping; kind; knife; knots; ladies; lady; lagoon; lap; large; late; latitudes; lead; leaves; leaving; leeward; left; length; level; levu; life; light; like; likely; line; liquid; list; little; lives; living; log; london; long; longer; look; looking; loss; lost; lot; loveworth; lower; lurau; lurline; mainsail; makatea; making; man; manner; mareu; marked; maro; marquesan; mass; mate; matter; mauna; mbau; mcgrath; means; meat; members; memory; men; middle; midnight; miles; mind; minutes; missionaries; missionary; mist; miti; moment; monster; months; moon; moonlight; morning; mother; motion; mountain; movements; muscles; music; narrow; native; natural; nature; naval; near; nearer; necessary; neck; need; new; north; northeast; nose; note; nukahiva; number; numerous; o'clock; occasion; ocean; officers; official; oil; old; open; opening; opportunity; opposite; orange; order; ordinary; original; outer; outside; pacific; pago; pago pago; pale; palm; papeete; particular; party; passage; passing; passion; past; patches; path; paumotos; peaks; pedro; people; performance; period; piece; pig; pigs; pilot; place; plain; play; point; polynesian; poor; port; portion; position; possible; post; powerful; practice; presence; present; pretty; previous; principal; progress; puffs; purple; purpose; quarter; queen; question; quick; quiet; race; rail; rain; ready; real; reason; reckoning; record; red; reef; reefed; regular; remarkable; responsible; rest; result; return; reverend; river; road; roar; rock; roku; rolling; room; rose; route; royal; run; runners; running; runs; runway; rush; safe; sail; sailing; sailors; salt; samoan; save; saw; scant; schooner; score; sea; seas; seat; second; set; setting; seuka; shade; shadows; shark; sheets; shell; shifting; ship; short; shoulder; showing; sides; sighted; signal; silent; silver; similar; simple; singing; single; sir; siva; size; sky; sleep; slender; small; smooth; societies; society; soft; solf; solid; song; soul; south; south pacific; south sea; southeast; southern; southwest; space; special; speed; spencer; spinning; spirit; spite; spot; spray; spread; squall; stage; standing; starboard; start; station; stay; steady; steamer; stern; stevenson; stiff; stirring; stones; stop; storm; straight; strange; stream; striking; strong; succession; sudden; sufficient; sugar; suggestion; suit; sun; sunset; sunshine; sure; surf; surface; suva; swaying; swells; swift; swimming; sydney; tack; tahiti; tahitian; tail; taio; task; taupo; tautira; tebu; telling; thatch; thing; thought; thrust; tide; time; today; tom; town; tracks; trade; traders; trading; trailing; tree; tropical; trouble; true; tug; turn; tutuila; twice; typee; uahuka; unbroken; uniform; united; valley; veranda; vicinity; village; visit; visitors; vivid; voice; voyage; waiting; wake; wall; war; watch; water; waves; way; ways; weather; week; west; western; wheel; white; white man; wide; wife; wild; wind; window; windward; wine; women; wonder; words; work; working; world; yacht; yachting; yards; years; yellow; young
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- 44726
- author: Buick, Thomas Lindsay
- title: An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.
- date: None
- words: 130014
- flesch: 59
- summary: By this marvellous reversal of fortune Te Rauparaha was not slow to profit; and no sooner had the firing of the defenders slackened than his men crept up to the walls, and, as an essential precaution, filled up the loopholes through which the Ngai-Tahu marksmen had taken aim. Canoes were at this time his great desire, for by them only could he cross over to the island of Waipounamu, is the explanation of the position given by Tamihana Te Rauparaha; and, if the Muaupoko could gratify that desire, Te Rauparaha was not the man to refrain from making a convenience of his enemies, as well as of his friends.
- keywords: able; absence; account; acknowledged; acting; action; active; advanced; advantage; advice; agent; aggression; akaroa; allies; ammunition; ancient; answer; anxious; apa; appeal; appearance; arawa; armed; arms; arrival; arts; assailants; assault; attack; attacked; attacking; attempt; attention; attitude; authorities; authority; away; bad; band; banks; bar; battle; bay; beach; beautiful; beginning; belief; best; better; blood; blow; board; boat; body; boy; brave; brig; british; broken; brother; burning; bush; camp; canoes; captain; captain wakefield; captive; capture; care; carrying; cause; centre; centuries; certain; chapter; character; charge; chief; chief rauparaha; chief te; children; christian; church; circumstances; claim; clarke; clear; close; cloudy; coast; cold; colonel; colonists; colony; coming; command; common; communication; companions; company; complete; concerned; condition; conduct; confidence; conflict; conquest; considerable; consideration; contact; continued; cook; cotterell; country; courage; course; court; covered; crew; crime; critical; crown; custom; danger; dark; dawn; day; day te; days; dead; death; decided; decision; deed; deep; defeat; defence; defenders; degree; delay; demand; departure; desire; desperate; destruction; determination; determined; difficulty; direction; disaster; distance; district; doubt; doubtful; duty; e te; early; east; effect; efforts; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; englishmen; equal; escape; europeans; event; evidence; evil; example; exception; excitement; expedition; experience; extended; extent; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; fallen; family; famous; far; fatal; fate; father; favourable; fear; features; feeling; feet; fight; fighting; final; finding; fire; flax; followers; following; food; force; forest; form; fortified; fortress; fortune; frequent; fresh; friendly; friends; friendship; fugitives; future; garrison; gate; general; george; god; good; government; governor; great; great chief; great te; greater; greatest; greenstone; grey; ground; guard; guns; hadfield; hand; handed; harbour; haste; hawaiki; head; hearing; heart; heavy; high; higher; hill; history; hold; home; honour; hope; horowhenua; hostile; hostilities; house; human; hunger; idea; illustration; immediate; important; impression; incident; influence; informed; inhabitants; intelligence; intended; intense; intention; interest; interpreter; invaders; invasion; involved; ironside; island; journey; judgment; june; justice; kaiapoi; kaikoura; kapiti; kawhia; keen; keeping; killing; kind; knowledge; known; lake; land; landing; language; large; late; law; lay; leader; leave; length; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; living; long; longer; look; lord; loss; love; magistrate; main; major; making; man; manawatu; mania; manner; maori; march; massacre; matter; maungatautari; means; meantime; measure; memory; men; mere; messengers; methods; middle; migration; miles; military; mind; missionary; moment; months; morning; mother; mountain; movements; muaupoko; muskets; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; necessary; need; neighbouring; nelson; nene; new; new zealand; news; ngati; nicholson; north; northern; northerners; number; numerous; occasion; occupation; ocean; old; open; operations; opinion; opportunity; opposite; order; original; otaki; outside; pakeha; panic; papaitonga; parties; party; pas; pass; past; path; payment; peninsula; people; period; permission; personal; place; plain; plans; point; policy; polynesian; population; porirua; port; portion; position; possession; possible; poto; power; powerful; prepared; presence; present; preserved; pride; principal; prisoners; proceeding; process; progress; proof; property; prospect; puaha; public; puhi; purchases; purpose; pursuers; pursuit; qualities; quarrel; queen; question; race; raid; rangitane; rangitikei; raukawa; ready; real; reason; reference; regard; relations; reply; reputation; request; rerewaka; resident; resistance; respect; responsible; rest; result; retreat; return; revenge; rights; river; room; route; sacred; safety; sale; satisfaction; satisfied; savage; saying; scene; scheme; sea; search; second; section; secure; seeing; sense; set; settlement; settlers; ship; shore; shot; sides; siege; signal; similar; single; situated; situation; skill; slaughter; slaves; sleep; sleeping; slow; small; soldiers; song; soul; sound; south; southern; southward; spain; spirit; spot; standing; state; station; step; stewart; stone; strait; strange; stream; strength; strife; strong; stronghold; struggle; subject; success; successful; sufficient; suggestion; sun; superior; supposed; surprise; surveyor; swamps; sydney; tactics; tahu; taiaroa; tainui; talk; tamaiharanui; tamihana te; taranaki; task; taua; taupo; te ahu; te aratangata; te aweawe; te heuheu; te hiko; te pehi; te puoho; te rangihaeata; te rauparaha; te rongo; te rua; te uira; te waharoa; te whatanui; te wherowhero; te whetu; terms; territory; thompson; thought; time; title; toa; trade; tradition; tragedy; treachery; treaty; tribal; tribe; tribesmen; trouble; true; tuckett; uncle; underwood; unfortunate; valley; valuable; vessel; vicinity; victory; view; village; violence; violent; visit; visitors; voyage; waikanae; waikato; wairarapa; wairau; waka; wakefield; walls; want; war; warfare; warriors; wars; water; way; weapons; weeks; welcome; wellington; west; whalers; whaling; whanganui; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wives; women; words; work; world; wounded; years; young; younger; zealand
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- 4521
- author: Jardine, Frank Lascelles
- title: Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
- date: None
- words: 55429
- flesch: 71
- summary: They had not seen a rise even, in any direction for miles, whilst the creek presented only occasional rocks of flat water-worn sandstone, and the screw-palm 'Pandanus Spiralis' occurred in all the water-courses, a tree that from its peculiarity would scarcely have been unnoticed or undescribed. Not a tree relieved the monotony of this waste, and what was worse, not a blade of grass was seen for miles.
- keywords: able; acacia; account; addition; afternoon; alexander; ana; appearance; arrival; australian; bags; banks; bark; barney; barren; bay; bearing; bed; best; better; binney; birds; black; bloodwood; boggy; bowen; box; boys; branch; branches; broken; brothers; byerley; camp; camped; cape; carpentaria; case; cattle; cattle party; caught; channels; chapter; character; charge; clear; close; coast; cockburn; common; companions; considerable; country; course; creek; crossing; cut; cutting; dark; day; days; dead; december; deep; degrees; description; determined; different; difficulty; distance; doubt; downs; dry; early; east; eastward; effect; einasleih; end; error; escape; eulah; evening; exhausted; expedition; experienced; fallen; february; feed; feet; final; find; fine; fire; fish; fishing; flats; flocks; flooded; flour; following; food; form; frank; fresh; gap; general; good; government; grass; grassed; great; green; ground; gulf; gullies; gum; half; half miles; halt; head; heavy; high; hill; horses; hours; hunting; important; impossible; improved; inches; interest; iron; islands; january; jardine; journey; junction; keeping; kennedy; kill; kind; known; lagoons; large; large creek; late; latitude; lbs; leader; leaves; left; leichhardt; length; levels; life; like; line; little; long; look; loss; lost; low; lynd; main; making; manner; march; marked; marks; matter; meat; melaleuca; miles; minutes; missing; mitchell; months; morning; mule; n.w; narrow; natives; nature; near; necessary; new; newcastle; night; nonda; north; northern; november; number; numerous; o'clock; occasion; october; old; open; opposite; pack; pandanus; parallel; party; place; plains; plant; point; poor; position; present; previous; progress; purpose; queensland; rain; range; rations; reach; reaching; report; rest; result; return; richardson; ridges; rise; river; road; rockhampton; rocky; route; running; saddles; safety; salt; sandstone; sandy; scrub; scrubby; scrutton; search; season; seconds; september; settlement; severe; shallow; short; similar; size; small; small creek; soft; soil; somerset; sons; south; spears; species; spinifex; spot; staaten; stage; start; starting; station; stock; stony; stores; storm; straits; stream; stringy; strong; success; sugar; sun; supper; surveyor; swamp; tea; tents; text; thick; thunder; tide; timber; timbered; time; torres; total; tracks; travellers; travelling; tree; turning; turtle; unable; use; usual; vine; water; way; weather; west; wet; white; wide; width; wild; wind; work; yards; year; yesterday; york
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- 46161
- author: Roberts, F. A.
- title: By Forest Ways in New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 37708
- flesch: 69
- summary: Other New Zealand trees have this curious habit of bearing different kinds of leaves at different stages of their growth, and botanists see in it a reminiscence of the changes that the plants' ancestors have lived through--varying leaves suited to variations in the climate. By the fuchsias grow veronicas, as tall as the fuchsias, now, at the end of January, in the full beauty of their abundant flower spikes, white or mauve; and with these are many trees of the compositæ family--olearias or senecios--all bearing bunches of white daisy-flowers.
- keywords: acres; afternoon; alpine; alps; auckland; away; banks; bare; bay; beach; beautiful; beauty; bed; berries; big; billy; birds; black; blue; boat; boiling; boots; boulders; bracken; branches; bright; brown; building; buller; bush; canterbury; cape; caves; centre; chapter; chief; children; christchurch; city; clear; cliffs; climb; climbing; close; clouds; coach; coast; cold; coloured; come; cook; country; crimson; cross; cut; dark; day; days; deep; defiance; distance; distant; district; dominion; drive; drooping; dunedin; early; east; edge; end; english; entrance; excellent; face; fall; far; feathery; feet; ferns; figures; fine; fire; flat; flax; floor; flowers; following; food; foot; forest; forest trees; fox; franz; fresh; friends; fronds; fruit; gardens; glacier; glad; glossy; gold; good; gorge; government; grass; great; green; grey; guide; half; hall; hand; harbour; head; height; hermitage; high; higher; hills; hillside; hokitika; home; homestead; hooker; horses; hot; hotel; hours; house; huge; hut; huts; ice; illustration; inside; iron; island; josef; journey; kauri; lake; large; leaves; left; level; life; lighted; like; line; little; long; look; looking; loose; lovely; lunch; main; maori; men; mighty; miles; miles long; milford; morning; mosses; motor; mountains; mud; narrow; native; need; nelson; net; new; new zealand; night; north; number; o'clock; ocean; office; open; opposite; otago; outside; page; party; pass; patches; path; peaks; people; pines; pink; pinnacles; places; plain; plants; point; pools; port; post; present; pretty; public; purple; quiet; railway; range; rata; red; ridge; rise; river; road; rock; roof; room; rose; rotorua; rough; round; runs; scattered; scenery; school; scrub; sea; set; settlers; shingle; shops; short; sides; size; sky; slopes; small; snow; soft; south; southern; space; standing; station; steam; steamer; steep; stems; stewart; stones; straight; strange; streams; streets; sulphur; summer; summits; sun; sunlight; sunny; surface; tall; tasman; tea; tent; thick; time; tiny; tourists; town; township; track; train; trees; trunks; tussock; valley; view; visitors; waiho; wakatipu; walk; wall; water; waterfall; way; weather; wellington; westland; white; wide; wind; winter; wire; wonderful; wood; wooden; world; years; yellow; zealand
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- 46925
- author: Barr, John
- title: The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920
- date: None
- words: 48859
- flesch: 65
- summary: The _New Zealand Herald_ describes how the innovation was received:--A large proportion of the city population had assembled in the streets to welcome the advent of the 'New Light,' and the _début_ of the much-longed-for novelty may be considered to have been quite as _brilliant_ as that of any star that has appeared among us for a long time. The P. & O. Company established a service to New Zealand _via_ Suez Canal in 1910, the Mongolia arriving in Auckland on November 23rd.
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- 47663
- author: Bell, George W. (George William)
- title: Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery
- date: None
- words: 55667
- flesch: 68
- summary: I have shown you many of my discoveries, on the outer surface of our planet; I have explained the political systems of many peoples, and I have observed the play of your emotions as the conditions of men were portrayed; but I now promise you only pleasing revelations, for in beauty, in climate, in soil and social situation, I am going to show you the paradise of Oliffa, and this means a portion of Australasia that declined to join the federation of which I have spoken--it means New Zealand, on the map, 'Zealandia,' with the poets, but Zelania, as it would be called in our more musical speech, and by this euphonious title shall we speak of that charming land. This, my children, was my last discovery, and while many people on Oliffa don't care to be discovered at all, I hope the 'Zelanians' will never regret my having landed on their blissful shores.
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- 4974
- author: Giles, Ernest
- title: Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876
- date: None
- words: 205960
- flesch: 78
- summary: I have travelled with horses in almost every part of Australia, but I know that after three days and three nights without water horses would certainly knock up, die, or become utterly useless, and it would be impossible to make them continue travelling. In the bright gleams of the morning, in this Austral land of dawning, it was beautiful to survey this little spot; everything seemed in miniature here--little hills, little glen, little trees, little tarn, and little water.
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- 4975
- author: Carnegie, David Wynford
- title: Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia
- date: None
- words: 127455
- flesch: 73
- summary: This hill is close to the high ranges, the Petermann and others, and it would have simplified our journey to have turned to them, where good waters are known to exist, but I desired to see what secrets unknown country might hold, even though it might be only sandhills. The rest of the night we worked at the well in shifts, and Charlie and I, the first shift, started off soon after daybreak with the buck to find more water, for it was evident that our present supply was insufficient.
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- 4976
- author: Sturt, Charles
- title: Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847
- date: None
- words: 219095
- flesch: 65
- summary: There was not a blade of vegetation on the flats, but little water in the river, and the whole scenery wore a most barren appearance. We stopped for the night on the long channel near the sandy rise where we had before rested, about ten miles short of our camp, and the trees on the muddy plain; and having effected our passage across that plain and the Stony Desert, over which it was with extreme difficulty that we kept our track, found ourselves on the 22nd, in the little grassy valley, from which we had entered upon it; little water was remaining, however, at the place where we had then stopped, so that I sent over to the sequestered spot Lewis had discovered, but the water there had entirely disappeared.
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- 5005
- author: Leichhardt, Ludwig
- title: Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
- date: None
- words: 141049
- flesch: 68
- summary: Water holes with fine water were found at the foot of the hills. Sept. 2.--We travelled N.W. by W. and came, after passing some of the usual tea-tree scrub, to an undulating country, with scattered shrubs of the salt water tea-tree, which grew particularly on the sandy heads of salt water creeks.
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- 5113
- author: Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
- title: The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- date: None
- words: 113586
- flesch: 69
- summary: Its precociousness is so great and its productiveness so lavish, that by the time other trees flaunt their first blossoms, the papaw has worn itself out, and is dying of senile decay, leaving, however, numerous posterity. Small birds as well as lusty pigeons, spiders and all manner of insects; flies, bees, beetles, moths and mosquitoes, as well as the seeds of other trees are ensnared.
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- 52528
- author: Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift
- title: The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol" Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary
- date: None
- words: 47317
- flesch: 79
- summary: The young boys were like little old men, their faces hard and their eyes haggard and anxious. No one could tell us how this institution, which is known in other islands besides Manihiki, first arose.
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- 53244
- author: Kerry-Nicholls, J. H. (James Henry)
- title: The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland.
- date: None
- words: 100796
- flesch: 69
- summary: We led our horses down the steep, slippery track into the valley, and as we were now seen by some of the Maoris, there were loud shouts that _pakehas_ had arrived, and the natives came out of the _whares_ and awaited our approach in front of the _wharepuni_. It was a very picturesque spot, dotted about with springs, some tepid, some hot, some boiling, and fringed with _manuka_ scrub.
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- 5334
- author: Oxley, John
- title: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
- date: None
- words: 95538
- flesch: 63
- summary: The population of this country must be extremely small: as the natives derive their chief support from opossums, squirrels, and rats, which are known to frequent barren scrubs and hollow trees, such neighbourhoods are unquestionably frequented by them in preference to the open country and river banks. In this perplexing situation, with no other prospect before us but that of effecting our own passage in a bark canoe, and being obliged to leave the horses behind us; since the width of the channel (which at low water we had the satisfaction to perceive did not exceed a quarter of a mile) and the extreme rapidity of the tide, which ran at the rate of at least three miles per hour, precluded all reasonable hope that, in their present weak state, they would have strength to swim over.
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- 5344
- author: Eyre, Edward John
- title: Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 01
- date: None
- words: 119545
- flesch: 62
- summary: It is true, the natives require but little water generally, but they cannot do without it altogether. SCOTT'S RETURN--CUTTER WATERWITCH SENT TO CO-OPERATE--SEND HER TO STREAKY BAY--LEAVE PORT LINCOLN WITH THE DRAY--LEVEL SANDY COUNTRY CLOTHED WITH BRUSH AND SHRUBS--SALT LAKES--MOUNT HOPE--LAKE HAMILTON--STONY COUNTRY--LOSE A DOG--BETTER COUNTRY--WEDGE HILL--LAKE NEWLAND--A BOAT HARBOUR--MOUNT HALL--REJOIN PARTY AT STREAKY BAY--SINGULAR SPRING--CHARACTER OF COUNTRY--BEDS OF OYSTERS CHAPTER X. COUNTRY BETWEEN STREAKY BAY AND BAXTER'S RANGE--ITS SCRUBBY CHARACTER--GAWLER RANGE--MOUNT STURT--ASCEND A PEAK--SALT LAKES--BEAUTIFUL FLOWER--ASCEND ANOTHER BILL--MOUNT BROWN SEEN--EXTENSIVE VIEW TO THE NORTH--LAKE GILLES--BAXTER'S RANGE CHAPTER XI. EMBARK STORES--PARTY LEAVE STREAKY BAY--DENSE SCRUB--POINT BROWN--SINGULAR WELL--PROCESS OF CHANGE IN APPEARANCE OF COUNTRY--DIG FOR WATER--FRIENDLY NATIVES--EXTRAORDINARY RITE--NATIVE GUIDES--LEIPOA'S NEST--DENIAL BAY--BEELIMAH GAIPPE--KANGAROO KILLED--MORE NATIVES--BERINYANA GAIPPE--SALT LAKES--WADEMAR GAIPPE--SANDY AND SCRUBBY COUNTRY--MOBEELA GAIPPE--DIFFICULTY OF GETTING WATER--MORE NATIVES--GENUINE HOSPITALITY--SINGULAR MARKS ON THE ABDOMEN--NATIVES LEAVE THE PARTY--FOWLER'S BAY--EXCELLENT WHALING STATION.
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- versions: original; plain text
- 5345
- author: Eyre, Edward John
- title: Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02
- date: None
- words: 137131
- flesch: 57
- summary: At this ceremony many other natives of both sexes, and of all ages were standing looking on; but so little did they commiserate the poor creature's sufferings, that the degree of her pain only seemed to be the measure of their laughter and merriment. The party may now be considered as forming two sides of a triangle, with the net at the apex and the game about the middle of the base; as soon as the sides are formed, other natives arrange themselves in a line at the base, and put the bird up.
- keywords: able; aborigines; absence; abundance; abundant; account; accustomed; acquainted; acts; addition; adelaide; advance; advantage; afternoon; aggression; american; animals; anxious; apparent; appearance; approach; arid; arms; arrangements; arrival; articles; assistance; attempt; attention; august; australia; author; average; aware; bad; ball; banks; bark; barren; bay; bed; behalf; best; better; birds; black; blood; board; boats; bodies; body; bore; boughs; boys; brackish; branches; break; breakfast; breast; british; broken; brush; bushes; camp; canoe; cape; captain; case; cattle; causes; centre; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; chain; change; chapter; character; chief; children; circumstances; civilization; civilized; clear; cliffs; close; clothing; coast; cold; collected; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; colour; coming; commence; common; communication; condition; confidence; connected; connection; consequence; considerable; consideration; contact; continent; continued; contrary; country; course; crimes; crossing; customs; cut; daily; dances; dancing; dark; darling; day; days; dead; deal; death; december; deep; degrees; description; desert; determined; dialects; different; difficulties; difficulty; digging; direction; distance; distant; district; division; dog; doubt; dreadful; drifts; dry; ducks; duties; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; eastward; eating; effect; efforts; eggs; elevation; emu; encounter; end; english; escape; europeans; evening; evidence; evil; examination; excellency; exists; expected; expedition; experience; extended; extending; extensive; extent; extract; extraordinary; eye; facility; fact; fall; families; family; far; fatal; father; favourable; favourite; feathers; feed; feeling; feet; females; finding; fine; fire; firewood; fish; fishing; flats; flinders; flour; following; food; foot; force; form; formation; frequent; fresh; fresh water; friendly; friends; frome; fur; future; game; general; george; girls; good; government; governor; granite; grass; great; greater; greatest; green; grey; ground; guide; guilty; gum; gun; habits; hair; half; hand; hard; head; heavy; height; high; hills; hitherto; hold; hole; holland; hollow; home; honour; hope; horses; hour; humanity; hunting; husband; huts; idea; immense; implements; important; improvement; inches; indians; individuals; influence; inhabitants; injuries; injury; inland; instances; instruction; intercourse; interest; interior; intervals; islands; journey; july; junction; june; justice; kangaroo; kind; kindness; king; knowledge; known; labour; lake; land; language; large; late; law; laws; lay; lead; leaves; left; legs; length; level; life; like; likely; limited; lincoln; line; little; living; local; long; look; looking; loose; lord; making; man; manner; march; matter; means; measure; meat; meeting; melancholy; members; men; messrs; method; middle; miles; mind; minutes; missionaries; mode; moment; months; moorhouse; moorunde; morning; mother; mount; murder; murray; names; narrow; natives; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; neck; neighbourhood; net; nets; new; night; north; northern; note; notice; number; numerous; object; observation; obtain; occasion; occurrence; ones; open; operation; opinion; opossums; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; original; overseer; painful; para; parents; particular; parties; party; passing; past; peculiar; people; period; permanent; personal; persons; phillip; physical; piece; place; plains; pleasure; point; pointed; police; poole; poor; population; port; portion; position; possible; pounds; power; powerful; practicable; practice; prepared; presence; present; previous; principal; probable; proceeding; procure; produce; progress; property; proportion; prospect; protection; provisions; public; punishment; purpose; pursuits; race; rain; range; reach; ready; real; red; reeds; regard; relations; relative; remarks; report; resident; respect; respective; rest; result; retired; return; rich; ridges; rifle; river; road; rocks; roots; route; rugged; running; said; salt; sand; satisfactory; savage; save; scale; scattered; scene; school; scrub; scrubby; sea; search; season; second; servants; settlers; sexes; shape; sheep; shells; shewn; ship; shore; shot; shrubs; sides; similar; single; singular; size; skill; skin; sleeping; slightest; small; soil; songs; sound; south; southern; spear; species; spirit; spot; spread; standing; state; station; stick; stones; stream; strength; strong; sturt; subject; subsistence; success; sufficient; supply; support; surface; swan; sydney; system; tea; teeth; termination; terms; testimony; thick; thing; thought; throwing; time; torrens; total; town; treatment; trees; tribes; trouble; true; truth; tufts; unable; upper; upwards; use; useful; usual; valley; variety; vessel; vicinity; view; violence; visit; vol; wales; walking; want; war; water; way; weak; weapons; weather; west; western; westward; wet; white; wife; wild; wish; wives; women; wood; words; work; wylie; yards; years; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 5346
- author: Eyre, Edward John
- title: Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete
- date: None
- words: 254581
- flesch: 60
- summary: At this ceremony many other natives of both sexes, and of all ages were standing looking on; but so little did they commiserate the poor creature's sufferings, that the degree of her pain only seemed to be the measure of their laughter and merriment. The party may now be considered as forming two sides of a triangle, with the net at the apex and the game about the middle of the base; as soon as the sides are formed, other natives arrange themselves in a line at the base, and put the bird up.
- keywords: 3rd; able; aborigines; absence; absent; abundance; abundant; account; accustomed; acquainted; acts; addition; adelaide; advance; advantage; afternoon; aggression; alarmed; allowance; altitude; american; angles; animals; anxiety; anxious; apparent; appearance; approach; april; arden; arid; arms; arrangements; arrival; articles; aspect; assistance; attack; attempt; attention; august; australia; author; average; aware; bad; baggage; band; banks; bare; bark; barren; base; basin; baxter; bay; bays; bearing; beautiful; bed; beds; behalf; benefit; best; better; birds; black; blood; board; boat; bodies; body; bore; boughs; boy; boys; brackish; brackish water; branches; break; breakfast; breast; british; broken; brown; brush; bucket; bushes; camp; canoe; cape; captain; care; carrying; cart; case; casks; cattle; causes; centre; ceremonies; ceremony; certain; chain; change; channel; chapter; character; children; circumstances; civilization; civilized; clear; cliffs; close; clothes; clouds; coast; cold; collected; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; colour; coming; command; commence; commencement; commencing; committed; common; communication; comparatively; complete; concerned; condition; conduct; confidence; connected; connection; consequence; considerable; consideration; contact; contemplated; continent; continuation; continued; contrary; convinced; cool; country; course; creek; crimes; crossing; customs; cutter; daily; dances; dancing; danger; dangerous; dark; darling; day; daylight; days; dead; deal; death; december; deception; deep; deep water; degrees; delay; dense; departure; depot; descended; descending; description; desert; desirable; despatches; determined; dew; dialects; diet; different; difficulties; difficulty; digging; dinner; direction; disappointed; disappointment; distance; distant; district; division; dog; dogs; doubt; dray; dreadful; drifts; drink; drop; dry; ducks; duties; duty; early; earth; east; eastern; eastward; eating; effect; efforts; eggs; elevated; elevation; emu; encampment; encounter; end; endeavoured; england; english; equal; escape; esq; eucalyptus; europeans; evening; evidence; evident; evil; examination; excellency; exception; exertions; exhausted; existence; exists; expected; expedition; experience; exploration; exploring; extended; extending; extensive; extent; extract; extraordinary; extreme; extremity; eye; eyes; eyre; facility; fact; fair; fall; family; far; fatal; father; fatigue; favourable; favourite; fearful; feathers; feed; feelings; feet; female; fertile; figures; finding; fine; fire; firewood; fish; fishing; flag; flats; flesh; flinders; flint; floods; flour; following; food; foot; force; form; formation; fowler; fragments; free; frequent; fresh water; friendly; friends; frome; fruit; fur; future; gallons; game; gawler; general; gentlemen; geological; george; girls; giving; gloomy; good; good water; gould; government; governor; granite; grass; great; greater; greatest; green; grey; ground; guide; guilty; gulf; gum; gun; habits; hair; half; halt; halting; hand; harassing; hard; harvey; head; heat; heavy; hero; high; higher; highest; hills; hitherto; hold; hole; holland; hollows; home; honour; hook; hope; hopeless; horizon; horseback; horses; horses water; horsf; hot; hour; house; hunting; huts; idea; immense; implements; important; impression; improvement; inches; inclined; individuals; influence; inhabitants; injury; inland; inquiries; instances; instructions; intended; interest; interesting; interior; intervals; islands; isolated; jaded; january; john; journey; july; junction; june; justice; kangaroo; kauwe; kegs; kind; kindly; kindness; king; knowledge; known; labours; lake; land; language; large; late; latitude; law; laws; lay; lead; leave; leaving; left; legs; length; letters; level; life; like; likely; limestone; limited; lincoln; line; list; little; little water; lives; loaded; loads; local; localities; long; long time; longer; looking; loose; loss; lost; low; low water; lower; making; male; man; manner; march; margin; master; meal; means; measure; meat; meeting; melancholy; members; men; method; middle; midst; miles; mind; minutes; miserable; missionaries; mode; moment; months; moorhouse; moorunde; morning; mother; mount; movements; mud; murder; murray; names; narrow; native boy; natives; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; neck; neighbourhood; net; nets; new; night; north; northern; northward; note; noticed; november; number; numerous; o'clock; object; observation; obtain; occasion; occurrence; october; ones; open; opening; operation; opinion; opossum; opportunity; opposite; order; ordinary; original; outer; outline; outside; overland; overseer; pack; painful; para; parallel; parents; particular; parties; party; passage; passing; past; patches; peculiar; people; period; permanent; permanent water; perseverance; personal; persons; phillip; piece; place; plains; plan; plants; pleasure; plenty; point; pointed; police; pool; poor; population; port; portion; position; possession; possible; pounds; practicable; practice; practised; precipitous; preparations; prepared; presence; present; pretty; previous; principal; probability; probable; proceeding; process; procure; produce; progress; property; proportion; prospect; protection; province; provisions; public; punishment; purpose; pursuits; push; quantity; quarter; quartz; question; race; rain; rain water; range; rays; reach; ready; real; reality; recent; red; reduced; reeds; regard; region; regret; relations; relative; remainder; remains; remarkable; remarks; report; request; resources; respect; respective; rest; result; retired; return; revenge; rich; ride; ridges; rifle; rise; risk; river; road; rocky; rode; roots; rough; rounded; route; rugged; running; sad; safety; said; saline; salt; salt water; sand; satisfactory; satisfied; savage; save; scattered; scene; school; scott; scrub; scrubby; sea; sealers; search; season; second; secure; sending; september; serle; services; set; settlement; settlers; severe; shallow; shape; sheep; shells; shelter; shewn; ship; short; showers; shrubs; sides; signs; similar; single; singular; sir; situation; size; skill; skin; sleeping; slight; slightest; small; smaller; soft; soil; somewhat; sound; south; southern; space; spear; species; specimen; spencer; spirit; spot; spread; spring; standing; state; station; steering; steps; sticks; stock; stony; stores; straight; strangers; streaky; stream; strength; strong; sturt; subject; subsistence; success; sudden; suffering; sufficient; summer; summit; sun; supplies; supply; support; surface; surface water; surprised; swan; sydney; system; tail; task; taste; tea; teeth; tell; termination; terms; testimony; thick; thing; thirst; thought; throwing; timber; time; tired; toil; tolerable; torrens; total; town; traces; track; traveller; travelling; treatment; trees; tribes; trouble; true; truth; tufts; unable; undertaking; unfortunate; unknown; unsuccessful; upper; upwards; use; useful; usual; vain; valley; valuable; varied; variety; vast; vegetation; vessel; vicinity; view; vig; violence; violent; visible; visit; vol; wales; walking; wallabie; want; warm; watching; water; water lake; water river; water tea; watercourse; watering; waterwitch; way; weak; weapons; weather; weeks; weight; west; western; westward; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wings; wish; wishes; withered; women; wonder; wood; words; work; worn; worse; wretched; writing; wylie; yards; years; yesterday; young
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- 536
- author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- title: A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
- date: None
- words: 62581
- flesch: 70
- summary: Hear the words of the chiefs in the 23rd article of their complaint: Some of the chiefs fled to the bush from fear of being reported, fear of German men-of-war, constantly being accused, etc., and Brandeis commanded that they were to be shot on sight. This policy was now the more necessary; for if the whole existence of the municipality were a check on the freedom of the new government, it was plainly less so when the power to enforce and punish lay in German hands.
- keywords: aana; able; account; action; adler; admiral; advantage; affair; american; ammunition; answer; apia; appearance; armed; arms; arrival; attack; attitude; atua; august; authority; battle; bay; beach; bearing; becker; berlin; best; bismarck; blacklock; blame; blood; blue; board; boat; body; brandeis; british; broken; brother; burst; bush; business; calliope; camp; captain; case; certain; chapter; character; chief; children; claim; close; coetlogon; colonel; colours; coming; commander; commodore; common; company; conduct; conference; consul; consulate; council; country; course; court; credit; crew; cut; danger; dangerous; dark; day; days; dead; death; deck; deep; despatch; different; difficulty; dollars; door; doubt; drunken; early; election; embassy; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; european; evening; events; excellent; eyes; face; fact; fall; family; fangalii; farewell; farther; fault; fear; feeling; field; fine; fire; firing; firm; flag; following; food; force; forest; free; fresh; fritze; future; gaol; general; gentleman; german; german consulate; german firm; german war; good; government; great; ground; guard; guns; half; hand; harbour; hard; head; heart; help; high; history; home; honour; hospital; hour; house; idea; inhabitants; interview; iron; islands; jackets; justice; kane; kind; king; klein; knappe; known; labour; land; landing; language; large; laulii; laupepa; law; laws; lay; leary; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; lives; lizard; long; loss; majesty; majority; malietoa; manner; manono; march; martial; mataafa; matautu; matter; means; meeting; men; midst; miles; military; mind; minister; mission; mob; moment; money; months; moors; morning; morrow; mountain; mulinuu; municipality; names; native; natural; nature; naval; necessary; neutral; new; news; night; november; number; occasion; october; office; officials; old; olga; open; opinion; orders; original; outside; paper; particular; party; passage; past; people; period; person; piece; pigs; place; plain; plantation; point; policy; poor; position; possession; possible; post; power; practice; prepared; present; president; private; proclamation; property; protection; protest; province; public; quarter; question; race; rain; reader; ready; reason; received; reef; relatives; remains; reply; report; rest; result; return; rival; river; road; rumour; safety; sailors; samoa; samoans; savaii; scanlon; scarce; scene; sea; seas; seat; second; secret; secretary; sense; september; service; set; sewall; ships; shore; shot; silent; single; singular; small; sovereign; spirit; spot; stand; standing; states; steam; step; strange; strong; stuebel; subjects; success; successor; support; sure; surprised; tamasese; taxes; temper; terms; territory; testimony; thing; thought; time; town; treaty; trenton; troops; trouble; true; unfortunate; vandalia; victory; view; village; visit; visitors; want; war; warriors; water; way; weapons; weber; white; wife; wise; wish; women; woods; word; work; worst; wounded; wrong; years; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 53784
- author: Boldrewood, Rolf
- title: Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised
- date: None
- words: 64349
- flesch: 74
- summary: The rooms were of fair size, the hospitality refined, spontaneous, and pervading every look and tone; and we, who in old days were wont to share it on our journeys to and from the metropolis of the district, would not have exchanged it for a palace. Old Mr. Robertson, a Scottish settler, had a lovely station on the Wannon.
- keywords: abode; acres; advantage; adventure; agricultural; animal; answer; anxious; appearance; area; arrival; australian; bad; ballarat; bank; bark; baron; bay; beach; bear; beautiful; beef; belfast; best; better; big; bit; black; blackfellows; blood; blue; body; bolden; bore; boy; breakfast; bridle; bright; broken; brother; buckup; building; bullocks; burchett; burge; bush; bushman; business; calves; camp; campbell; capital; captain; case; cattle; cattle station; certain; chance; chapter; charge; charles; cheery; chief; children; choice; city; class; clear; clifton; climate; close; cloud; coast; colonial; colonists; colony; colt; coming; companion; company; comrade; condition; considerable; cottage; country; couple; course; cows; cox; credit; creek; cross; crown; cry; cunningham; cut; daily; dark; dawn; dawson; day; daylight; days; dead; dear; death; decided; deep; devoted; die; different; difficulty; direction; distance; distant; district; dog; dogs; door; doubtless; draft; dray; driving; drove; dry; duck; dunmore; dwelt; early; east; eastern; easy; england; english; establishment; estate; eumeralla; evening; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; fairy; fall; family; famous; fancy; far; farm; farmers; farther; fashion; fast; fat; fate; fattening; favourite; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fertile; field; find; fine; fire; firm; flat; flocks; foot; force; forest; form; fortune; fred; free; freehold; fresh; friend; future; gallant; gambier; garden; general; genial; gentleman; george; glorious; god; gold; good; government; grand; grasmere; grass; great; greater; green; grey; guest; gums; gun; half; hand; handed; happy; hard; head; heart; heavy; heidelberg; heifer; height; help; henry; herd; high; hill; history; home; homestead; honour; hope; horse; hospitality; host; hour; hunter; hut; idea; impossible; improvements; instance; interest; island; jack; james; joe; john; journey; judge; kangaroo; kangatong; kind; kindly; known; labour; lady; lake; land; lang; large; late; late mr; lava; lay; leading; leave; left; legs; length; life; like; likely; limestone; line; little; live; living; long; look; looking; lost; lot; lovely; low; lower; lyne; macknight; main; making; man; manner; mare; marked; marshes; matter; meal; means; melbourne; memory; men; mere; messrs; mid; miles; mind; mob; moderate; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mount; mountain; mrs; mud; muster; native; natural; nature; near; nearer; nearest; necessary; neck; neighbours; new; night; north; number; o'er; occasion; occupation; ocean; old; ones; open; order; ordinary; original; outside; overseer; owner; paddock; pale; particular; partner; party; pastoral; pasture; pay; people; period; picturesque; pioneer; place; plain; pleasant; plenty; point; police; poor; port; portion; portland; position; possession; present; pretty; price; profits; property; proportion; proprietor; public; purchase; purpose; quality; question; race; rail; rain; range; rank; ready; real; reason; red; reeds; return; rich; ride; riders; riding; rises; river; road; rocks; room; round; rouse; run; running; runs; saddle; sale; sand; savage; saw; sea; second; sense; servants; service; set; settlement; sheep; shepherd; shooting; shore; shot; simple; sir; situation; sized; sky; slight; slopes; small; smoke; soil; son; sort; soul; south; spear; speed; spirits; splendid; spot; spring; squatter; squattlesea; stage; stalwart; station; steeplechase; stock; stockman; stone; straight; strange; stream; street; strong; stud; subject; sufficient; summer; sun; superior; sure; sydney; tale; tall; tarrone; tasmania; team; temper; thick; thing; thought; timber; timbered; time; tom; tommy; town; track; traveller; tree; tribe; trifle; troopers; trouble; true; turf; unknown; unusual; upper; valuable; value; victoria; view; violet; visible; visit; voice; wales; want; warrnambool; waste; watch; water; way; weather; week; west; western; westward; white; wide; wife; wild; william; wind; winter; woodlands; wool; work; world; yambuk; yard; yarra; years; yering; young; younger
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- 54474
- author: Horsley, Reginald
- title: New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 82803
- flesch: 69
- summary: Many customs, related to _tapu_, were followed in time of war by the warriors, while non-combatants by prayer, fasting, and the practice of severe austerities, proved how closely the idea of _tapu_ was allied with that of religion. Here it seems possible to trace a connection between _tapu_ and parts of the Jewish ceremonial law.
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- 57026
- author: Hare, Francis Augustus
- title: The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang
- date: None
- words: 76274
- flesch: 78
- summary: Again, men would call for two slices of bread, put a ten-pound note between them, and eat the note and bread as a sandwich. As we went we joined in with large parties of men, all bound in the same direction as we were, for the purpose of our mutual safety.
- keywords: aaron; account; afternoon; alarm; armour; arms; arranged; arrest; bank; bed; beechworth; benalla; best; better; black; blood; body; bracken; brooks; brother; buggy; building; bushrangers; byrne; camp; captain; capture; cart; certain; chapter; charge; chief; close; coach; colony; constable; country; course; creek; crossing; dan; dan kelly; day; daylight; days; dead; detective; determined; different; difficulty; diggers; diggings; direction; distance; district; dogs; door; duty; early; effect; engine; escape; euroa; evening; fact; family; fellow; fire; firing; following; foot; friend; gang; glenrowan; going; gold; good; government; great; guard; gully; gun; half; hand; hard; hare; hart; head; hill; home; horses; hotel; hour; house; hut; idea; information; inside; inspecting; jerilderie; joe; jones; kelly; kennedy; known; large; lawless; leave; left; life; line; little; living; log; long; look; looking; lying; m'intyre; macauley; man; manager; manner; matter; melbourne; men; miles; minutes; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mountains; mrs; murray; near; ned; ned kelly; new; night; notice; number; o'clock; occasion; officer; old; opposite; order; outlaws; outside; pack; parties; party; pass; past; people; persons; pilot; place; platform; police; police station; position; possession; possible; power; prisoners; purpose; rails; railway; ranges; ready; reardon; reply; return; revolver; riding; rifle; river; road; robbery; room; round; run; saddle; scott; search; senior; sentry; sergeant; sherritt; shooting; shot; sister; snake; south; special; spot; squatter; standish; stanistreet; start; state; statement; station; steve; stop; store; sunday; superintendent; sure; sympathizers; telegraph; telling; tent; thing; thinking; thought; time; town; trackers; tracks; train; tree; victorian; wales; wangaratta; watch; watching; water; way; wife; woman; working; yards; years; young
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- 57471
- author: Hulme, E. (Edward)
- title: A Settler's 35 Years' Experience in Victoria, Australia And how £6 8s. became £8,000
- date: None
- words: 16016
- flesch: 76
- summary: It contained about 400 acres of good tillage land--good for this district, where land is not first-class, like many parts of Victoria. We selected 115 acres more land the next year, and 95 the year after.
- keywords: acres; america; australia; best; better; blessing; board; boys; brothers; bush; capital; cause; children; christian; claim; class; climate; colonies; colony; company; country; course; creek; crops; dairy; day; dear; diggings; direction; district; earth; england; experience; fact; families; family; farm; farmers; farming; fine; fruit; furniture; future; garden; god; gold; good; government; grand; great; growing; half; hall; hand; harvest; hill; home; horse; increase; independent; industry; interest; irrigation; known; labor; land; large; life; little; living; london; long; love; man; melbourne; men; miles; millions; money; new; night; north; old; passage; people; place; population; position; potatoes; present; produce; products; profession; residence; return; round; schomberg; settlement; ship; shore; sketch; small; sons; state; strange; strength; subject; suitable; sum; things; thought; time; true; use; vast; victoria; wages; want; water; way; wealth; wife; work; world; years; young
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- 5789
- author: Westgarth, William
- title: Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
- date: None
- words: 45922
- flesch: 64
- summary: She was to land us at Hobart about 27th July, in good time, we hoped, to get across by the Launceston boat for the Exhibition opening, and she bids fair, at this moment, to keep her engagement. He had latterly, besides, a surpassing business agent in my old friend James Rae, whose firm of Jackson, Rae and Co. had retired comparatively early, after attaining the mercantile headship of the colony; thus leaving the colonial field open to other early friends, Fred.
- keywords: aboriginal; account; acquaintance; acres; action; age; allotment; anti; argus; arrival; august; australia; authority; away; bad; ballarat; bank; batman; bay; beach; beautiful; beauty; bendigo; best; better; black; body; boyd; brief; bright; british; brother; bush; business; busy; capital; captain; case; cassell; cattle; central; certain; chance; changes; character; charge; charles; chief; children; church; circulation; circumstances; city; class; co.; cold; collins; colonial; colonies; colonists; colony; commerce; commission; common; community; company; complete; condition; considerable; corner; corporation; cost; cottage; country; course; creek; crown; daily; daughter; day; days; death; decided; deep; different; difficulty; diggers; direction; district; doctor; doubt; dozen; duty; earlier; earliest; early; early melbourne; east; ebden; edward; effect; empire; engaged; english; equal; escape; established; example; exhibition; expected; face; fact; fair; family; famous; far; fast; father; fawkner; fear; feature; feeling; fellow; fine; following; form; fortune; francis; free; friend; froude; future; garden; geelong; general; generation; genial; gentleman; george; german; gold; golden; goldfields; good; government; governor; grand; great; ground; gum; half; hand; head; heavy; help; henty; high; highest; hobart; home; homestead; honest; honour; hope; host; hotel; hours; house; human; idea; imperial; important; incident; indigenous; inevitable; influence; instance; interest; interesting; interior; jackson; james; john; kerr; kind; known; labour; land; large; later; launceston; law; leading; leave; left; leisure; life; like; line; little; lively; london; long; look; looking; mackinnon; main; making; man; market; matter; mayor; mcarthur; means; measure; meeting; melbourne; members; merchant; mere; messrs; miles; mind; mitchell; moment; money; morning; mother; mount; mrs; mutual; native; natural; nature; near; need; new; news; nicholson; night; north; number; o'shanassy; occasion; office; official; old; open; opportunity; order; paper; park; parliament; party; pass; passengers; passing; past; people; personal; phillip; place; pleasant; point; political; poor; population; port; portland; position; possible; pounds; present; press; pretty; prince; progress; prominent; protection; public; purpose; queensland; question; quiet; race; railway; rain; ready; reason; recollections; record; regard; regret; remarkable; residence; rest; return; rich; river; road; room; run; running; scene; sea; second; section; senior; sense; separation; service; settlement; sheep; shillings; short; sir; sketch; slight; small; snow; social; society; solicitor; somewhat; sons; south; southern; speaker; spectacle; squatting; station; stock; stores; story; street; striking; strong; style; subject; success; successful; succession; summer; sun; sure; surrounding; sydney; system; tasmania; things; thomson; thought; tide; time; title; town; track; transportation; trees; trobe; turn; useful; usual; utterly; value; vast; victoria; view; visit; visitors; wales; wannon; want; way; ways; western; white; wife; william; wilson; wooden; words; work; world; worthy; yarra; years; young; younger; zealand
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- 58098
- author: Pitts, Herbert
- title: Children of Wild Australia
- date: None
- words: 21629
- flesch: 78
- summary: [Illustration: HUNTING PARROTS AND COCKATOOS] For hundreds and hundreds of years the aborigines had this vast country to themselves, for though Spaniards, like Torres and De Quiros, and Dutchmen, like Tasman and Dirk Hartog, had visited their shores, and an Englishman named William Dampier had even landed in the North West in 1688, it was not till exactly a hundred years afterwards that white men first came to make their homes in their land. Sometimes, of course, when the weather is very hot and close and sultry they do not work as well as at other times, but what white man or child would not prefer to rest under such circumstances?
- keywords: able; aboriginal; age; animals; australia; baby; bark; beautiful; belief; big; birds; black; blackfellows; bodies; body; bone; book; boomerang; boughs; boys; bush; camp; care; ceremonies; chapter; children; chocolate; christ; christian; church; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; death; different; earth; emu; evil; eyes; far; father; feet; fire; fish; food; girls; god; good; grass; great; ground; hand; head; help; home; hope; illustration; jesus; kangaroo; kind; land; large; leaves; lessons; life; like; little; little children; lives; living; long; lord; love; magic; making; man; means; medicine; men; miles; mission; missionaries; mother; names; native; near; new; night; north; number; old; older; parts; people; piece; place; play; poor; power; rain; religion; river; sacred; saw; school; sheep; sky; spear; spirits; stations; stick; stone; stories; story; strange; sun; things; time; totem; tree; tribe; use; water; way; ways; weapons; western; white; wild; wild australia; women; wonderful; wood; work; yarrabah; years; young
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- 5816
- author: Wills, William John
- title: Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria
- date: None
- words: 96461
- flesch: 70
- summary: SIR, At the first meeting of the Council of this Society, during this session, I brought under the consideration of my associates, a statement of the distinguished botanist, Dr. Mueller, of Victoria, to the effect that the friends of your deceased son were dissatisfied on finding that Mr. Burke, the leader of the late expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria, had received a gold medal, and that Mr. King had received a watch, whilst no testimonial of the services of Mr. Wills had been presented on the part of the Royal Geographical Society. --Yes; and on the same day, or the day after, when Mr. Wills went out on that second journey, Mr. Burke removed the depot to the lower place. 162.
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- 58206
- author: Murif, Jerome J.
- title: From Ocean to Ocean: Across a Continent on a Bicycle An Account of a Solitary Ride From Adelaide to Port Darwin
- date: None
- words: 47817
- flesch: 81
- summary: Soon after leaving the well dreary open country is met with--nothing to be seen for many miles but spinifex. * * Before many miles had been covered, against a head wind and under a sweltering sun, a sharp thirst reminded me that I had eaten a salt-meat breakfast; and that thirst became sharper still before Taylor Creek was reached.
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- 58239
- author: Allen, J. S. O., Mrs.
- title: Memories of My Life From My Early Days in Scotland Till the Present Day in Adelaide
- date: None
- words: 64391
- flesch: 90
- summary: There were many other men and boys employed about the works beside the colliers. Both coal and ironstone are found in many places in Ayrshire.
- keywords: account; adelaide; afraid; afternoon; age; ago; air; allen; anxious; arran; australia; away; awful; ayrshire; baby; beautiful; bed; best; bible; big; binney; black; board; boat; book; boy; boys; bright; brother; buildings; bush; business; busy; cape; captain; care; carriage; charge; children; church; city; close; clothing; coach; coal; comfortable; coming; cook; cookery; country; cross; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; deck; different; doctor; door; dressed; drink; early; eggs; elsie; england; english; evening; excitement; experience; face; family; fargus; farm; father; felt; free; friends; future; garden; gentleman; girl; glad; glasgow; good; government; grand; great; growing; half; hand; happy; hard; heart; help; high; hill; hold; home; hope; horses; hotel; house; housekeeper; human; husband; ill; interested; isle; john; journey; joy; kilts; kind; kindness; kitchen; known; ladies; lady; large; late; laundry; leave; letter; life; like; line; little; lived; living; london; long; look; looking; lost; lot; love; lovely; macblean; maid; man; married; master; maybole; memory; men; middle; miles; mind; minister; miss; mistress; money; months; moonta; morning; mother; mouncey; mrs; names; near; new; nice; night; o'clock; office; old; open; passengers; past; pay; people; picture; pits; place; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; poor; port; position; prince; public; railway; ready; relatives; rest; return; rev; road; room; rough; round; rundle; sad; saturday; scene; school; scotch; scotland; scott; sea; send; servants; ship; shop; short; sir; sister; slamannan; sleep; small; sorts; south; splendid; star; station; stay; stirling; stockings; strange; street; strong; summer; sunday; sunnyside; talk; tall; tea; thankful; things; thought; time; town; train; trouble; view; visit; visitors; voyage; wages; walk; want; war; water; way; week; white; wife; wild; william; window; winter; woman; wonder; wonderful; wool; words; work; working; world; years; young
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- 58799
- author: Boxall, George
- title: History of the Australian Bushrangers
- date: None
- words: 153223
- flesch: 77
- summary: He said nothing about the numerous robberies he had committed at various times, nor of his relations with other bushrangers, with whom it was known he was on cordial terms during at least a portion of his career. He was taken to Bathurst, where he was charged with having looted Mrs. Anne Webb's store at Mutton Falls, and with having aided and abetted other bushrangers in several robberies on the highway and elsewhere.
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- 5992
- author: Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)
- title: Station Amusements in New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 65030
- flesch: 70
- summary: A profound silence unbroken by bleat of lamb, or bark of dog, or any sound of life, had reigned for many days, when a merciful north-westerly gale sprung, up, and releasing the heavily-laden earth from its white bondage, freed the miserable remnant of our flocks and herds. This had been the terrible state of things, and although the blessed warm wind had removed our immediate and pressing fear of starvation, we could not hope to employ ourselves in searching for our missing sheep for many days to come.
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- 60696
- author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
- title: The Boy Travellers in Australasia Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan, and Feejee Islands
- date: None
- words: 154950
- flesch: 69
- summary: With many Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $2.00. The incident led to a conversation about the 'servant question,' which has troublesome features in many other countries as well as in New Zealand.
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- 6104
- author: Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)
- title: Station Life in New Zealand
- date: None
- words: 63157
- flesch: 65
- summary: This is the bright side of colonial life, and there is more to be said in its praise; but the counterbalancing drawback is, that the people seem gradually to lose the sense of larger and wider interests; they have little time to keep pace with the general questions of the day, and anything like sympathy or intellectual appreciation is very rare. The wind was a trifle light for sailing, so the gentlemen pulled, but very lazily and not at all in good form, as the object of each oarsman seemed to be to do as little work as possible.
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- 6750
- author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
- title: The Hawaiian Archipelago
- date: None
- words: 127775
- flesch: 66
- summary: The track crosses the deep, still, Wailuku River on a wooden bridge, and then after winding up a steep hill, among native houses fantastically situated, hangs on the verge of the lofty precipices which descend perpendicularly to the sea, dips into tremendous gulches, loses itself in the bright fern-fringed torrents which have cleft their way down from the mountains, and at last emerges on the delicious height on which this house is built. I indulged in various imaginations as we rode up the long ascent leading to Bola-Bola's, but this time they certainly were not of sofas and tea, and I never aspired to anything beyond drying my clothes by a good fire, for at Hilo some people had shrugged their shoulders, and others had laughed mysteriously at the idea of our sleeping there, and some had said it was one of the worst of native houses.
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- 7163
- author: Favenc, Ernest
- title: The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
- date: None
- words: 190015
- flesch: 64
- summary: Found King, the only survivor of Burke and Wills' expedition. 1855--Sir Thomas Mitchell died near Sydney. 1855-56--A. C. Gregory and Baron von Mueller North Australian expedition, in search of Leichhardt; discover Sturt's Creek and the Elsey. 1855--B. H. Babbage; to examine country north and east of Adelaide for gold.
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- 7177
- author: Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
- title: My Tropic Isle
- date: None
- words: 76648
- flesch: 69
- summary: It was bad; and he spoke harsh things of white men, and of Christmas and of the doings of Christians during the celebration of the birthday of the Founder of their faith. Most of Tom's feats of marksmanship, though performed with what white men would despise as arms of precision, end seriously.
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- 7181
- author: Landor, Edward Wilson
- title: The Bushman — Life in a New Country
- date: None
- words: 98809
- flesch: 67
- summary: Government Surgeon, pro tempore: -- From pulmonary complaints we are happily free; and even when these have gone to some length in other countries, removal to this climate has been of the highest possible benefit. There is no other colony in Australia so admirably situated with respect to other countries.
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- 7304
- author: Scott, Ernest, Sir
- title: The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
- date: None
- words: 153968
- flesch: 69
- summary: So then, the English, already masters of the eastern coast of New Holland, now wish to occupy the immense extent of the west and south-west coasts which contain very fine harbours, namely, that which they call Westernport, Port Phillip, Port Flinders* The largest island in the Furneaux group, now called Flinders Island, was not so named by Flinders.
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- 7450
- author: Scott, Ernest, Sir
- title: Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
- date: None
- words: 83723
- flesch: 64
- summary: (November) French ships leave Sydney. Even when the two governments had ceased to have relations with each other, we still find English and French men of science communicating on friendly terms; and Napoleon himself was willing to grant the requests of an English savant while English arms and English diplomacy were at furious war with him.
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- 7509
- author: Lee, Ida
- title: The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant
- date: None
- words: 87718
- flesch: 82
- summary: Made sail down River Derwent. At 6 made sail.
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- 8911
- author: Stuart, John McDouall
- title: Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, When He Fixed the Centre of the Continent and Successfully Crossed It from Sea to Sea
- date: None
- words: 150235
- flesch: 86
- summary: Started at half-past seven, intending to follow a south-east course to make the Mussel Camp on the 23rd of June; but, meeting with another large creek with continuous water, deep, broad, and boggy, also a number of springs and water creeks, so boggy that I could not cross them, had to twist and turn about very frequently, and sometimes to go quite back again, before I could clear them--which brought me often close to the river again. At four miles struck the creek that I have before crossed nearer to the range, found water, and camped to give my horses every chance.
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- 9943
- author: Mitchell, T. L. (Thomas Livingstone)
- title: Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)
- date: None
- words: 131795
- flesch: 70
- summary: At one place even the white-barked gum trees appeared; but, although they had the character of river trees, we found they grew on an elevated piece of clay soil. We had not prolonged our journey very far across the plains, keeping the trees of the river we had left visible on our right, when another line of river trees appeared over the downs on our left.
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salt; salvator; sandstone; sandy; savage; saw; scabris; scale; scarce; scene; scenery; scrub; scrubby; sea; search; season; seed; separate; september; shade; sharp; sheep; shells; shepherd; shining; short; shower; shrubs; sida; sides; similar; singular; sir; size; sky; slender; slight; slopes; sloping; small; small river; smaller; smoke; smooth; soft; soil; solitariis; sound; sources; south; southern; southward; spacious; species; specimens; spikes; splendid; spot; spread; spring; state; station; stenochilus; stephenson; stock; stockman; stony; straight; strange; strangers; stray; stream; strong; structure; subject; subtus; sufficient; summit; sunrise; sunset; supply; supposed; supra; surface; survey; surveyor; swamp; sweet; sydney; table; tall; taste; teams; temperature; tents; thermometer; thick; thin; thought; thunder; timber; time; tomahawk; tomentosis; traces; tracing; track; trap; travelling; trees; tribe; tributaries; tributary; tropical; true; turning; uncertain; undulating; unifloris; united; unknown; upper; use; useful; usual; utrinque; vain; valley; variety; vast; vegetable; vegetation; verdant; verdure; vicinity; victoria; view; vii; visible; vix; vol; vriese; w.n.w; wales; want; warm; watch; water; watercourse; watering; way; weather; western; westward; wet; wet bulb; wheels; whereof; white; wide; wild; william; wind; women; woods; word; work; yards; yarra; years; yellow; yesterday; young; yuranigh; ° e.
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- 9958
- author: Forrest, John Forrest, Baron
- title: Explorations in Australia 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia.
- date: None
- words: 95176
- flesch: 73
- summary: Found water by digging. Dug two wells to-day, and found good water at seven feet from the surface.
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