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Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
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
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ered that the shooting ofthose peculiar iDirds was no longer practised; he then explained thatSydney ducks can hardly be said to exist at present, the term havingbeen applied to runaway convicts, ticket-of-leave men, and other waifsand strays, of the time when Australia was the receptacle of transport-ed criminals from England and the other British Isles. Sydney seems to have been founded by or for these unfortunates.Mr. Manson told us that the settlement was made here in January,1Y88, by Captain Phillip, who came here with a fleet of store and trans-port ships, for the purpose of founding a convict establishment. Hehad previously landed in Botany Bay, but finding it unsuitable, hadabandoned it for the future site of Sydney. The name of the placewas given in honor of Yiscount Sydney, Avho first suggested the coloni-zation of New South Wales, and the bay was called Port Jackson, afterSir George Jackson, who was then Secretary to the Lords of the Ad-miralty. AN APPROPRIATE MEMORIAL. 297
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STATUE OF CAPTAIN COOK, SYDNEY. 298 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. As soon as we had settled ourselves at the hotel, Mr. Mansonaccompanied us in a stroll and ride through the principal streets. Great changes have taken place here in the past twenty or eventen years, said Mr. Manson, as he called our attention to new andmagnificent buildings, which he said occupied the sites of wretched

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Knox__Thomas_Wallace__1835_1896
  • bookauthor:Harper___Brothers__pbl
  • booksubject:Voyages_and_travels
  • booksubject:Adventure_and_adventurers
  • booksubject:Tutors_and_tutoring
  • booksubject:Friendship
  • booksubject:Sailing
  • booksubject:Sailors
  • booksubject:Animals
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Harper___Brothers
  • bookcontributor:School_of_Theology__Boston_University
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