Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, and JavaG.P. Putnam's sons, 1897 - 277 páginas |
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Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania ... Michael Myers Shoemaker Visualização completa - 1897 |
Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania ... Michael Myers Shoemaker Visualização completa - 1898 |
Islands of the Southern Seas: Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tasmania ... Michael Myers Shoemaker Visualização completa - 1897 |
Termos e frases comuns
Australia avenues Batavia beautiful birds blue boat Bóro Bódo Brambanan Brisbane Buddha called centre certainly Chándi Chinese cholera coast color comes deep desolation Dieng Plateau Djokja DJOKJAKARTA Dutch eight England FATHER DAMIEN flowers forests four Garoet gorgeous green harbor holds Honolulu hundred feet India inverted bell Java Javanese Jongran journey lake land last night latter look mangosteen Maoris miles Molokai morning Mount Victoria mountains natives never o'clock ocean onward palace palms pass Port Arthur possesses prison rain reef rises river rock ruin sail Samoa sanctuary seems seen ship side sight Sir Stamford Raffles South Southern spot stands storm Straits strange streets stretch Sumbawa Sydney Tasmania temple terraces thousand Thursday Island tiger to-day town Townsville traveller trees tropical vast volcano Wairakei walls waters Weltevreden wild yonder Zealand
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Página 115 - They clear, break up, fence, and cultivate their own land, the product being principally confined to potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and other vegetables. After a term of good conduct, the option of a trade is conceded as a boon, five or six kinds of handicraft being submitted for election. At the head of each department the necessary instructors are to be found, and as means and opportunities admit, these are chosen from among persons arriving free in the colony. The juvenile sawyers first attracted...
Página 116 - Although the origin of this establishment be founded in guilt, it is one of deep interest, for, from the very core of crime, there springs the cherished hope of fairer, happier days. Infamy may be lost in industry, sin give place to grace, and transportation itself may, through the blessing of God, be the balsam of the reckless. Such consummation is within the power of all. Many, no doubt, have, and will again clutch the offered gift ; and I earnestly hope, as I sincerely believe, that many will...
Página 116 - Many, no doubt, have, and will again, joyfully clutch the offered gift, and I earnestly hope, as I sincerely believe, that many will bless the hour they saw Point Puer, which, under Providence, may prove the salvation, body and soul, of hundreds. Several instructed there are already earning comfortable livelihoods in various parts of the colony; and numbers have feelingly adverted to Captain Booth on the blessings they thence derived.
Página 116 - ... have a great variety of material prepared and preparing for the purpose of erecting a large and substantial barrack, together with an extensive range of improved workshops. At the bakery, a large supply of goodly provender, the production of sundry juveniles, met our eyes ; whilst the savoury steams of the cook-house induced us to take a peep at the excellent fare, the boys being allowed an equal ration with the adult.
Página 189 - No trade or navigation whatever was permitted beyond the west point of Bantam, without a pass from Batavia. Such are the most important of thirty-one articles of restriction, serving to shackle every movement of commerce, and to extinguish every spirit of enterprise, for the narrow selfish purposes of what may be called the fanaticism of gain...
Página 114 - ... tobacco is an offence against the regulations, notice was given that the entire ward should be placed in charge until the smoker was made known. When we came away, they had not discovered the offender ; and, in consequence, every man was made to sleep in a silent apartment. In passing along the streets after dark, every sentry challenges , and without the countersign, even the commandant would be peremptorily detained. Every soldier invariably bears loaded arms. The penitentiary yards are commanded...
Página 113 - There he lay, a sad—a solemn warning. Embarking in a splendid six-oared whale-boat, we crossed the bay to Point Puer, the boy-thief's establishment. They were busily occupied in learning and repeating the catechism. At the penitentiary of Point Puer we encountered Queen Caroline's celebrated witness, Lieut. Flynn of the Navy, a miscreant who was convicted in 1839, at the Old Bailey, of forging poor widows
Página 119 - State, publicly offered a reward of £500 "to any person or persons who shall apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, the said Richard Parker.