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Up and Down; Or, Fifty Years' Colonial Experiences in Australia, California, New Zealand, India, China, and the South Pacific Being the Life History of Capt. W. J. Barry


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. JoJtnston't Creek?Ugly cuetomeri?Cattle-lifting?Lynch, a demon. Mr. Smith being in want of cattle, I was despatched with three men to Johnston station, at the head of the Momi river, on the Liverpool Plains, to drive a mob down for the Sydney market. While there, another of those tragedies, so common in those days in the bush, occurred; the blacks had surprised and murdered two white women on the station. Although there was a stockade on the plains containing 500 prisoners, guarded by sixty soldiers, the station hands made no appeal to them for assistance, but turned out to the number of twenty, and went in search of the offenders. They came up with them, and drove them into a stockyard, where fifty of the blacks were slaughtered and their bodies burnt. This severe retaliation attracted the notice of the authorities, and the whole of the party engaged in the work, who were a mixed lot of freemen and convicts, were taken up and tried for murder, but by some means were acquitted. Mr. J. H. Plunkett was the Crown prosecutor, who was determined if possible to put down this bush system of reprisals. Three or four days afterwards seventeen of the same men went out again after the black fellows and killed a very old one; he was said to be eighty years of age.The Government came down this time with a heavy hand, arrested the whole of the men, and tried them for the murder of this ancient native. They were found guilty on this occasion, and the whole of them hanged, and justice, in the person of J. H. Plunkett, was for a time satiated. My men and I started for Sydney with 200 head of fat cattle; the station owner, Mr. Johnston, accompanied us for the first day's drive, and then returned. We camped that night about fifteen miles from the home station, where there was a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217653824
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217653820
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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