...once from a cold comfortless ship into a comfortable house and society, naturally put me into good humour with the place. The beauty of the scenery,...board and lodge us all for six months, at the rate of 25Z. a month. This was reasonable, compared with the expensive hotel, but the situation was too bleak...

...once from a cold comfortless ship into a comfortable house and society, naturally put me into good humour with the place. The beauty of the scenery,...board and lodge us all for six months, at the rate of 25Z. a month. This was reasonable, compared with the expensive hotel, but the situation was too bleak...

...better known." If the history of every house were made public, she observes, it would make Europeans shudder. " Even in our small menage, our cook has...bigamy: but these formidable truths are hushed up!" This article would be incomplete without some notice of the islands in what may be termed the Australasian...

...delicately called, the prisoners, supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every IMMUC were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage our cook ha» committed murder, oar footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy '. But these formidable truths...

...extract from Prinsepp's delightful Letters from Van Diemen's Land : — " Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy I" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption...

...called, ' the prisoners,' supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house wefe made public, you would shudder; even in our small...cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and our housemaid bigamy!" The state of morality in a country is tolerably well indicated by the consumption...

...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — ' Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy!' It is only lair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — ' It is...

...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — ' Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy!' It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — ' It is...

...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — " Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! " It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — "It...

...character, the colonists could little be expected to trust their servitors. One gentleman wrote home — " Even in our small menage our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! " It is only fair to qualify this extract by quoting a remarkable passage which follows : — "It...