The foundation of Australia, 1786-1800 : a study in English criminal practice and penal colonisation in the eighteenth century / by Eris O'Brien ; with an introduction by Douglas Woodruff
- Bib ID:
- 2377635
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- O'Brien, Eris, 1895-1974
- Description:
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- London : Sheed & Ward, 1937
- xiii, 432 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5180.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK5825.
- Summary:
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Includes part of the Instructions to Governor Phillip "... the aboriginals of the country were to be conciliated and protected" p. 200, 206; describes the environment as "... sparsely inhabited by tribes of aboriginals, treacherous, primitive and absolutely unacquainted with any form of agriculture or housing construction" p. 216; states that of the 65 deaths in the first year of settlement "... four had been killed by the natives" p. 231; due to the food shortage Phillip "... had to hide the fact of distress from the aboriginals lest they take advantage of the weakness of the people" p. 237; mentions that absconders from the colony were sometimes "... killed by aboriginals" p. 265; mentions, when a man was hanged, the body provoked "... terror among the natives, who abandoned the hunting-ground for ever" p. 330; lists possible disasters to the colony "... attacks of the natives" p. 349.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 409-425.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK5180, NK5825.
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