The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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Page 67
... 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
Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians. 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 carried west and not east of Phillip's ...
Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians. 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 carried west and not east of Phillip's ...
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