A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being the Adventures of James F. O'ConnellB. B. Mussey, 1836 - 265 Seiten |
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Seite iii - And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
Seite 49 - ... stringy-bark," such being the soubriquet in which inland settlers rejoice. He has no particular maid in view, but has obtained of Bishop Marsden permission to visit the factory and seek a wife, and a letter to the matron certifying his intent. The girls are paraded in each room as the Coelebs enters it, that is, the marriageable ones of the first and second classes, and the visiter scans them as a Turk would Georgians in a slave-market. I have been myself present at two or three of these negotiations,...
Seite 52 - I'll give you three months before you're returned!" cries one, and "It's a bargain you've got, old stringy-bark!" cries another. Hubbub and confusion mark the exit of the couple, and the bride's character is immediately picked to pieces by the neglected, as soon as her back is turned, and the appearance of her husband elect most scientifically blasted, after the usual manner of decrying sour grapes. The clothes of the convict are returned to her, and, dressed again like a free woman, she hies with...
Seite 50 - I would not be understood that / had friends there; Mr Smith could always make some pretext to enter, and we visited them from curiosity. The girls, all agog for a husband, would show various faces upon the examination. Some, all sheepish smiles and blushes, would look as foolish as all young ladies are supposed to, when a third person happens in upon an interview at which the question has just been popped. Others would avert their faces in a sort of indifference; as, although a refusal is seldom...
Seite 32 - It may be well here to remark, that if a convict is discovered to have money to any considerable amount, it is taken from him or her, and deposited in a Savings Institution at Sydney, where it accumulates till the time of sentence expires. The conversations of the passengers with the boats alongside are peculiar, and have a character which no greetings away from New South Wales can resemble. "Lord love 'ee, Sal! is that you? and how long are ye lagged for?
Seite 181 - Namadow, left my situation not quite so pleasant as before. Ahoundel seemed inclined to repair his harshness with over affection, and it was with much difficulty George and I obtained permission to leave Nutt even for twenty-four hours. Outside the reef which bounds Bonabee are two islands, one called by the natives Hand, about twenty miles distant, the other Pokeen, about sixty miles distant. The latter, called on the charts Wellington Island, is inhabited ; Hand is not. The inhabitants of Wellington...
Seite 104 - Broiling heat succeeded the chills of night; the wind abated, flattened, at noon we were becalmed ; dying with heat and fatigue upon a sea whose dead swell was so tranquil that its glassy, slimy smoothness was not ruffled. Toward night we had a breeze again, through the night the wet chills, and the same heat and calm upon the next day. After two days and three nights' exposure, the daughter died about ten o'clock on the third day.
Seite 50 - Others would avert their faces in a sort of iiwliflerence ; as, although a refusal is seldom met by an applicant, still these seekers for help-meets are not all of such an appearance as to tempt a woman half way. A third set would most prudishly frown upon a proceeding which pays so little respect to the prescriptive rights of the ladies ; while, as if purposely set in contrast to these fastidious ones, others would make attempts, not always successful, or with the best grace, to appear as amiable...
Seite 182 - I did not believe, till my visit, that the natives of Wellington Island were cannibals; then I had ocular demonstration. It seemed with them an ungovernable passion, the victims being not only captives, but presents to the chiefs from parents, who appeared to esteem the acceptance of their children, for a purpose so horrid, an honor. Wellington Island, laid down on the chart as one, is, in fact, three islands, bounded by a reef.
Seite 207 - The tide appeared to be high, our canoe was paddled into a narrow creek; so narrow that in places a canoe could hardly have passed us, while in others, owing to the inequality of the ground, it swelled to a basin. At the entrance we passed for many yards through two walls, so near each other that, without changing the boat from side to side, we could have touched either of them with a paddle. They were about ten feet high; in some places dilapidated, and in others in very good preservation. Over...