The Miner's Right: A Tale of the Australian Goldfields - Couverture rigide

Browne, Thomas Alexander

 
9781356411184: The Miner's Right: A Tale of the Australian Goldfields

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Australia at last actually in Botany Bay, as we called the colony of New South Wales when Joe Burner and I first thought of leaving that dear quiet old Dibblestowe Leys in Mid-K ent. More than that, I am a real gold digger very real, indeed and the holder of aM iner sR ight, a wonderful document, printed and written on parchment, precisely as follows. I ought to know it by heart, good reason have I therefor, I and ne. Here it is, life size, in full. Shall I ever take it out and )k at it by stealth in happy days to come, I wonder 1NEW SOUTH WALES. 7~. ..X Yes, I am here now, at Yatala, safe enough :as I said before, with my mates Cyrus Yorke, Joe Bulder, and theM ajor. But I certainly thought I should never get away fromE ngland. One would have imagined that a younger son of a decayed family had never quitted Britain before to find fortune or be otherwise provided for. A lso, that Australia was Central A frica, whence ingenuous youth had little more chance of returning than dear old Livingstone. As for me, Hereward Pole, as I had but little occupation and less money, I was surely the precise kind of emigrant which the old land can so gracefully spare to the new.
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