The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1933 - Great Britain |
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... Norfolk Island in 1790 , and the supplies which she carried for the sustenance of the settlement were lost . Fortunately , there were very large numbers of sooty petrels nesting upon the sandy slopes of Mount Pitt , and the flesh and ...
... Norfolk Island in 1790 , and the supplies which she carried for the sustenance of the settlement were lost . Fortunately , there were very large numbers of sooty petrels nesting upon the sandy slopes of Mount Pitt , and the flesh and ...
Page 117
... Norfolk Island should be abandoned by the free settlers living there . " The black hole of Botany Bay " , as the Irish convict , Sir Henry Brown Hayes , called it , 1 was considered to possess many disadvantages , but the principal ...
... Norfolk Island should be abandoned by the free settlers living there . " The black hole of Botany Bay " , as the Irish convict , Sir Henry Brown Hayes , called it , 1 was considered to possess many disadvantages , but the principal ...
Page 327
John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell. NORFOLK ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND 327 perception of our interests . The rights of discovery in the islands were allowed to lapse , and British claims were ...
John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell. NORFOLK ISLAND AND NEW ZEALAND 327 perception of our interests . The rights of discovery in the islands were allowed to lapse , and British claims were ...
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