The Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land: Comprising a Description of that Colony During a Six Months' Residence"An account of Mrs. Prinseps travels, including her experiences in Penang, Malaca, Batavia, Sumatra and Tasmania. In her preface she states "The delay in publication, occasioned by unforeseen circumstances, will not detract from the value of a book bearing record of Singapore and Van Diemen's Land, as in such new settlements and colonies, society is not susceptible of very rapid changes."."--Abebooks website. |
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Page 52 - ... supply all demands of this nature ; and if the histories of every house were made public, you would shudder. Even in our small menage, our cook has committed murder, our footman burglary, and the housemaid bigamy ! But these formidable truths are hushed up, or tried to be so.
Page 109 - Lands to be granted in square miles, in the proportion of one square mile, or 640 acres for every £500 sterling of capital, which the applicant can immediately command, to the extent of four square miles or...
Page 79 - Land abounds in such fine rivers, and is surrounded by the sea, the inhabitants should not have advanced even to the construction of the slightest raft; but they are undoubtedly in the lowest possible scale of human nature, both in form and intellect. They have small hollow eyes, broad short noses, with nostrils widely distended, uncommonly large mouths, jaws elongated like the Ourang Outang, and figures scarcely more symmetrical. They are dark, short in stature, with disproportionately thin limbs...
Page 52 - Freemen find so many ways of making money here, that they will not take service ; and so the convicts, or, as they are delicately called,
Page 114 - I am just now in treaty for 1 001. worth of land, which, six years ago, sold for 41. per acre, and is now valued at 401. Adjoining to houses in Hobarton, land sells at 300Z. per acre ; my purchase is not a quarter of a mile off. The city will spread there in five years, and then it will be worth 7501.