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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... convicts in general behave well , there are many who dread punishment less than they fear labour ; and those who have not been brought up to hard work , which are by far the greatest part , bear it badly . " Still , those convicts who ...
... convicts in general behave well , there are many who dread punishment less than they fear labour ; and those who have not been brought up to hard work , which are by far the greatest part , bear it badly . " Still , those convicts who ...
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... convicts under Government control . Norfolk Island was nothing but a penal settlement . Of its total population of 2187 , 1831 were convicts . Moreton Bay had made slow progress . The census noted 130 convicts out of a total population ...
... convicts under Government control . Norfolk Island was nothing but a penal settlement . Of its total population of 2187 , 1831 were convicts . Moreton Bay had made slow progress . The census noted 130 convicts out of a total population ...
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... convicts , and partly because the convicts carried out such public works as buildings , roads and bridges . In this way Western Australia gained much of the necessary permanent outfit which Gawler had wrung from Britain for South ...
... convicts , and partly because the convicts carried out such public works as buildings , roads and bridges . In this way Western Australia gained much of the necessary permanent outfit which Gawler had wrung from Britain for South ...
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