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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…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Five

Volume 5 Famous trip up the Murray River, 1856 The ‘Leichardt’ Chinese to Albury Over the Bar Meetings with Aborigines Making wood Moira Station With the exception of our having lost flesh (for we were all thin enough) we were…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Four

Volume 4 Coastal trading in ‘Grenada’ 1855 Prisoners escape ‘Jenny Lind’ to Mauritius Robinson the monkey Storm damaged Short water and rations Safe at last It was long after dark when we had the ‘Swallow’ secured with good breast lines…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Two

In the Gold Fields The ‘Pride of the Seas’ to Batavia Encounters with Straits Aborigines Visiting Islands Playing ‘Pirate’ Java Monkeys Shark In the latter part of February 1854, I was boarding at the Family Hotel, Lower George Street, Sydney,…

EJANZH: Hulme Chapter Three

Volume 3 ‘Margaret’ To Van Dieman’s Land Visiting convicts and Chartists The ‘Faith’ almost to Pitcairn The ‘Star’ goes a-trading South Sea ponies The ‘Swallow’ In being paid off from the American schooner ‘Pride of the Seas’, I enjoyed a…

Notes to Laugesen

Notes (1) Typified by the work of Patricia Limerick in The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken past of the American West, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1987. (2) See, for example, M. Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, University of Chicago…

Untitled Document

1. E. Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand, Vol. 2, London, 1843, p. 142. 2. Normanby to Hobson, 14, 15 August 1839, in Great Britain Parliamentary Papers (GBPP) 1840, Vol. 23, pp. 37-40. 3. Ibid. 4. Letter from Viscount Palmerston, Foreign…