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STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION* 115
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_ It Is Now Four Months Since We Publish...
become little We things anchored willing . If to they in make Moreton see the you best Bay are of on willing everything Monday to make afternoon for the you best . , but of were every detaine thing , they d on
board early to several prepare days , as . we We were expected told to that land the on steamer Wednesday would , and be got there up by very ten clockWe packed ourthingsthrew our beds overboardas they were
o ' . up ., , not sent worth ourselves taking to the ashore Brisbanites , and got ourselves The steamer washed did and not dressed make its read appearance y to
preand small all that boat day came we with sat the on our news boxes . that anxiousl the steamer y awaiting had started it . In to the come afternoon for us , ,
but a and an could accident not come had till occurred it was , and aired it was . obli We ged all to had put to back make as it up was our not minds safe , rep
the to happened pass disappointment a ni before ght without we . were However beds in , the and , we steamer many oug grumbled ht instead to be thankful bitterl of after y at that as the it hardshi the mig accident ht p have and
hagg our done cooks chattels li . ng to We make the , had captain so we given thoug let away tea us ht at have all I first had our some we not eatable should slept biscuit s to well have the and for sailors treacle to three fast , , , and ni ; and but hts packed allowed before after up some but the all
us some . g , I the The sat Wans next on a / day ell bundle another and after and steamer had a deli a g good ht came ful _journey ni , and ght ' about s rest of twenty the in sp middle ite -five of mile the of the lack s we day landed of we a bed left at .
Brisbane and coming the . town in The good , itself country health is is and most pretty sp beautiful irits , and never , comfortable the for scenery one moment up lace the . having river The g is regretted irls lovel were y ,
Almost at once inarched all the off to a the very depot are , engaged and the re and st were twenty dispersed p more mi about ht have the town been .
young women , g if settled they had as it come is uncertain out . I whether am waiting they till will the want young me or men not . of I our believe party I shair are
have I good mean no , situation to difficulty stay in in Brisbane in getting shop in if a possible the good town situation . My Being youngest as soon still as brother a I boy decide has he to seemed alread take y one the got .
most a difficult one in a the party to be disposed . of . The other girls , have engaged themselves in domestic capacities at from , £ 20 to £ 30 and per annum lad . We are
I all have well not pleased time with to say the more country , excep and t to our thank prospects you for , all your very kindness gwe came . .
With love , I remain Yours , sincerel y , R . S .
V My dear . Mrs . _Bodichon , —
which with . Your , if It in is questions the a subjec slightest t on th the at degree has subject useful often of , engaged emi I shall gration not my regret seem thoug to having hts justif , and y troubled a on few which line you s I , sixteen in this settlement
have in attempting my frequentl humble to repl y journal written y to . your during But questions notwithstanding often the last felt . It seems this years to , l I me have embarrassed almost great new impossible hesitancy bimmi to in ,
deal grants safel on y arriving in details appl . I y have ing for situations exceeding , and being y unable to assist y them - _, satisfactorily ; especially when I had reason to home suppose mi th ht at have my article had s , on
the suitability of our colony as an emigrants' , g something And be to said yet do it favorable with is quit the e strangers of true the that colony ' coming there need is among amp be unsaid le us room . - , There and that is abundance nothing that of
can beggar his land own lying to landlord be waiting seen and . for The master the stead hand and y of laborer his industry children of the . Ther have humblest e a is fair ability no field such for soon being their becomes labor as a , addinto wealth
and enterprise . ' Every family that arrives is hailed as g our :.
Stray Letters On Emigration* 115
STRAY LETTERS ON _EMIGRATION * 115
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/43/
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