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EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Ten

Volume 10 ‘Belle of the West’ Boots overboard Hong Kong I learn of the ‘Lakes’ Boston to Buffalo Freshwater sailor to New Orleans Liverpool and a visit After breakfast, for I went right to my old boarding house on Collins…

Notes to Lewis on Latham

Notes (1) The Latham papers are kept in the National Library of Australia at MS1009 and MS 6409. They use over eighteen metres of shelf space. One of the few works to consider Latham’s role in the history of Australian…

John Dargavel reviews Borschmann's The People's Forest

Borschmann, Gregg. The People’s Forest: A Living History of the Australian Bush. Blackheath, NSW: The People’s Forest Press. ISBN 0-646-36939-3 viii+pp.279.$39.95 The lively sub-field of Australian forest history is replete with policy, heritage, technological, silvicultural and ecological themes. Cultural themes…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Nine

Volume 9 ‘Toronado’ to Melbourne mutiny and a shooting cruel treatment Smallpox Quarantine Coasting in ‘Reindeer’ Gold digging again Having been paid off some 4 weeks previously from the London ship ‘Eliza’, in London, and been ashore that length of…

EJANAH: Hulme Chapter Eight

Volume 8 Around Cape Horn The Roaring Forties Trade winds to the Azores Falmouth, England Home to Ashton-Under- Line at last! Reunion We now learned for the first time that we were bound for Falmouth for orders, where Capt. Loutitt…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Six

Volume 6 Down the Murray Barge “Captain” Baked cockatoo Rendezvous with the “Leichardt” Dysentery Refusing duty Goolwa Gaol or Adelaide Choka Our first day’s run down stream was gratifying to the Old Man for we had covered the distance in…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Seven

Volume 7 East Indiaman ‘Eliza’ Easy duty to Calloa, Peru Bevanco’s Revolution Caulking & re-coppering Under the revolutionary guns Chinchas Island guano We had been out of jail two weeks when Gleeson came into the house one day at noon…