The Genesis of Queensland: An Account of the First Exploring Journeys to and Over Darling Downs: the Earliest Days of Their Occupation; Social Life; Station Seeking; the Course of Discovery, Northward and Westward; and a Resumé of the Causes which Led to Separation from New South Wales...Contacts with natives noted; p.22; Moreton Bay natives used to locate runaways; p.24; Nasal septum pierced, two joints of little finger left hand removed; manufacture of nets and baskets; fishing; shelters; duels described; p.31; Bathurst Island; tattoos, painted, scarification, physical appearance; clothing; weapons; p.34; Grave in detail; p.253; Sunstroke cure; p.295; Cannibalism; p.313; Gathering of tribes for Bunnia [bunya] season; p.339; Childrens games with bows and arrows. |
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Page 303
... Fraser among the ' crew ' released on the 15th August ? " Mrs. Frazer called at our office on Saturday afternoon , and gave us the following particulars : The long - boat's company consisted of Captain Fraser , Brown , the chief officer ...
... Fraser among the ' crew ' released on the 15th August ? " Mrs. Frazer called at our office on Saturday afternoon , and gave us the following particulars : The long - boat's company consisted of Captain Fraser , Brown , the chief officer ...
Page 304
... Fraser being employed cutting down and carrying wood , fetching water , and fishing for the natives ; and Baxter was engaged in the same manner on the other side of the river . " The steward of the brig - Joseph - had walked overland to ...
... Fraser being employed cutting down and carrying wood , fetching water , and fishing for the natives ; and Baxter was engaged in the same manner on the other side of the river . " The steward of the brig - Joseph - had walked overland to ...
Page 311
... Fraser's far- apart descriptions of the circumstances attending her husband's death are strangely at variance too ... Fraser , we should not have found him , in 1842 , where we did . It , doubtless , suited Mrs. Fraser that she should be ...
... Fraser's far- apart descriptions of the circumstances attending her husband's death are strangely at variance too ... Fraser , we should not have found him , in 1842 , where we did . It , doubtless , suited Mrs. Fraser that she should be ...
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afterwards Amity Point anchor appeared arrived Arthur Hodgson August Australia bank blacks boat Bracefell Brisbane Brisbane river bush called camp Cape Captain Logan Cecil Plains coast colony command Condamine convicts course creek Darling Downs distance districts Dividing Range drays east eastward encampment England fathoms feet four Fraser Government Governor grass head hills honour hope horses hundred Jacky Jimbour journey labour land latitude leagues Leichhardt Leslie longitude look Melville Island miles Moreton Bay morning Mount Mount Warning mountains natives night northern northward o'clock observed party passage passed Patrick Leslie Port Essington Port Jackson Port Macquarie reached reef ridge river rock sailed sandy seen settlement sheep ship shoals shore side South Wales southward spears spot squatters station Strait stream Sydney timber took trees tribe westward