The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . hree thousand aboriginals in the country arenot to be relied upon either as toilers or neighbours, and that the assistance which theconvicts sui)ply is not an adequate recompense for the blight which the name of laginflicts on the colony. Yet, though the settlement did not primarily commence as a place WESTERN AUSTRALIA: HISTORY. 209 of banishment;, about the first intrusion of the region on public notice was owing to theNew South Wales authorities, as early as
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . hree thousand aboriginals in the country arenot to be relied upon either as toilers or neighbours, and that the assistance which theconvicts sui)ply is not an adequate recompense for the blight which the name of laginflicts on the colony. Yet, though the settlement did not primarily commence as a place WESTERN AUSTRALIA: HISTORY. 209 of banishment;, about the first intrusion of the region on public notice was owing to theNew South Wales authorities, as early as 1826, forming an outlying colony of convictson the shores of King Georges Sound, at the spot where the village of Albany after-wards established itself. Soon, however, owing to the reports of Captain Sterling, asettlement of free colonists was founded on the Swan River. Hence many who areyet middle-aged may remember Western Australia under its earlier and more familiarname of The Swan River Settlement. Then the convicts were removed, and, as theSwan Riverites imagined, the Bill Sikes physiognomy was no more to appear among them. VIEW oy THE SWAN EIVEE, WESTERN AVSTRALIA (GRASS TREES, KLAfK SWANS, AND KANGAROOS), under official auspices. But they were mistaken. The first colonists were humble men,not ambitious of in any way distinguishing themselves as heroes. They desired to livewith less toil than they did at home, and, if possible, make their bread, and the breadof their wives and families, surer than it had been during the dull times which Englandwas experiencing half a century ago. Yet, in spite of themselves, the tale of the pioneersof Western Australia is as manly a tale of hardships endured, and of sufferings borne, asany which have come down to us. They were not successful. The aborigines were nume-rous, and being, after their own savage fashion, patriots, failed to look upon the proceedingfof the new comers in the light which the latter would have desired. So there was
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