Recollections of Bush Life in Australia: During a Residence of Eight Years in the InteriorJ. Murray, 1861 - 162 páginas |
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... Plains- " Draughting " Cattle - Scene in a Stock Yard - Description of a Cattle Enclosure in the Interior- Branding Disadvantages in Selling- " Boiling Down " -Quality of Australian Cattle - Hints to Breeders 55 CHAPTER VII . The Half ...
... Plains- " Draughting " Cattle - Scene in a Stock Yard - Description of a Cattle Enclosure in the Interior- Branding Disadvantages in Selling- " Boiling Down " -Quality of Australian Cattle - Hints to Breeders 55 CHAPTER VII . The Half ...
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... Plain - Pic- turesque Spot - Our Host at Omio - Colonial Pets - Native Com- panion - Kangaroos -White Cockatoos - Parrots Story of the White Woman carried off by the Wild Blacks - A Cool Visitor-- Return Home • 124 CHAPTER XIII . The ...
... Plain - Pic- turesque Spot - Our Host at Omio - Colonial Pets - Native Com- panion - Kangaroos -White Cockatoos - Parrots Story of the White Woman carried off by the Wild Blacks - A Cool Visitor-- Return Home • 124 CHAPTER XIII . The ...
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... plains and " open forest can boast a de- lightful variety . Many spots are to be met with which are truly picturesque ... plain . Here there is a brief but delightful change of sight and sound ; the chirp of the locust ceases , and the ...
... plains and " open forest can boast a de- lightful variety . Many spots are to be met with which are truly picturesque ... plain . Here there is a brief but delightful change of sight and sound ; the chirp of the locust ceases , and the ...
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... plains with his sheep , and allows his cattle to appropriate the spots most congenial to their nature , such as river banks , swampy creeks , and the moist , low grounds , generally ; while his horses , which , though of a ram- bling ...
... plains with his sheep , and allows his cattle to appropriate the spots most congenial to their nature , such as river banks , swampy creeks , and the moist , low grounds , generally ; while his horses , which , though of a ram- bling ...
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... plain , verdant and well watered . He at once saw that it would suit his purpose , pro- vided that he could get the sole possession of it , but that it would be over - stocked if divided . In a case of this sort , I fear that ...
... plain , verdant and well watered . He at once saw that it would suit his purpose , pro- vided that he could get the sole possession of it , but that it would be over - stocked if divided . In a case of this sort , I fear that ...
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