Two years in Victoria, with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land / by William Howitt
- Bib ID:
- 253833
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Howitt, William, 1792-1879
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860
- 2 volumes in 1 ; 19 cm.
- Summary:
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Reminiscences of life in Victoria; v.1, p.178-181; Describes camp near Albury (Murray Tribe), fondness for dogs, conflicts with settlers, physical appearance, brief note of animal foods, clothing, opossum skin rug, cicatrization; v.2, p.61; Plains between Murray, Goulburn & Loddon Rivers, native oven seen; p.124; Ovens River, native camp, effects of European diseases, burial of woman; p.179; Notes on Parkers Aboriginal Station (Mount Franklin), request by natives to have land for their own; p.281-282; Conflict led by Mosquito in 1830 (Tasmania), removal of natives to Flinders Island.
- Notes:
- Other publishings entitled: Land, labour, and gold, or, Two years in Victoria ...
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 10621
- Subject:
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- Gold miners -- Victoria -- Correspondence
- Gold mines and mining -- Victoria
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Pinjarup people (W6) (WA SI50-02)
- Material culture - Fur and skin objects and decorations
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Meat
- Settlement and contacts - Resettlement and removals
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Body - Scarification
- Gathering
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Animals - Mammals - Marsupials - Possums / Gliders / Cuscus
- Costume and clothing
- Hunting
- Colonisation
- Victoria -- Description and travel -- 1851-1900
- Loddon River (NW Vic SJ54-04, SI54-16)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Albury Wodonga (SW NSW / N Vic SJ55-02)
- Franklinford / Mount Franklin (Vic SJ55-05)
- Goulburn River (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Ovens River (N Vic SJ55-01)
- Flinders Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Also Titled:
- Land, labour, and gold
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1879
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1860
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