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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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pture and starvation, he was very likely to fall beforethe spear of a black man. Some of the Irish convicts of 1798 were so struck by the similaritybetween the Blue Mountains, about eighty miles from Sydney, and theConnaught Hills of Ireland that they rushed ofi^ expecting to reach theirhomes without difficulty. One man who had tried on the voyage outto fathom the mystery of the mariners compass felt sure that he couldfind his way home if he only had the thing to steer by. He stole acopy of a work on navigation, and tore out the first leaf, which had thepicture of a compass upon it. His theft was detected and punished,and he never had an opportunity to try his system of paper-compassnavigation. A goodly portion of the emigrants thought China was only a little CONVICT LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. 307 way overland from Sydney, and many tried to reach it. There used tobe a story of a runaway who had wandered for days in the bush, andsuddenly came to a hut in which was an acquaintance. He anxiously
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SEKTESCED TO HARD LABOR. asked how his friend had got to China, and was much astonished tolearn that he had reached a farm a few miles from Sydney, and hisacquaintance had been hired there as a laborer. 308 THE BOY TRAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA. If you wish to learn how the convicts were brought from Englandto Australia, continued their informant to Frank and Fred, how theylived when they got here, and how they were treated, read a storyentitled His Natural Life, by Marcus Clarke, an Australian journalistand litterateur. In the form of a novel he has preserved much of thehistory of the old convict days. It is not altogether agreeable reading,though it is instructive. All the colonists except the convicts themselves, and they had novoice in the- matter, protested against Australia being peopled by theseobjectionable individuals, and protest after protest was made to theHome Government. These protests had their effect, and in 1840 trans-portation to New South Wales came to an end; an attemp

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