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118 LETTERS FROM BRISBANE.
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The Lettersrelative To The Emigrantsare ...
Hye and tiie respectable young women under ner charge at the conduct of some of these forty outsiders . We saw them loitering
about when we went on board to say farewell , at Gravesend , and regretted their appearance at the time to Miss _Hye . —B . H . P . ]
December 12 , 1862 . I need Dearest We not are tell on S lan , d that once we more feel , most after a thankful safe but to long have and ended tedious our voyage trying .
journey in good you health and spirits , and with the will to do anything- to obtain a living . _L intends to give you an account of our life on the sea , so I will proceed at once to tell you of the good fortune that has happened
to ussince the steamer brought us , from Moreton Bay , where we anchored rained on the , fast 8 rd all of the this time month we , to were Brisban in the e , Brisban a week e ago river last so Wednesday that we could . It
of onl the y gain steamer an im . perfect What idea we did of our see adopted , however lan , gave d throug us h great , the cabin pleasure windows , and
far and exceeded occasionall our y th expectations ere is a very . p The icturesque banks of house the river to be are seen nicel , built y wooded in the , Swiss fashion of the , long with dry one season story and the a trees verandah and grass running look all very round brown . In indeed
conse-The more quence want so , the of rain inhabitants has made tell fruit us , , than and vegetables they have dear appeared , but we for find many living , years and . clothing too , very much the same as in England . JFlour is 2 s . 4 _, d . per
good stone can manage sugar ; meat at , to 2 5 d d do . . and without The 3 d . dear per at pound things present ; are . tea Mrs milk , 2 s . . 6 H and d . ; coffee eggs and , , both B Is . 6 d of . ; met which and us very we at
we the have depot slept immediatel ever since y on , at our the landing small , charg and e took of a our shilling party a to bed an . inn We , where have her pur e chased at present our own has provisions been very and inexpensive waited upon . ourselves Of course , so th we at have our living been
favoured through being of Miss Eye ' s party , the usual charge for a bed being landing 2 s , . to 6 d find . I ourselves cannot tell in you nice how large deli airy ghtad rooms we , felt it seemed the first like night paradise of our
they after quitoes are the , and made old are Conway of trimmed iron . , and We very covered slept prettil in wit y the h with net prettiest silk curtains fringe beds to . I keep We have have out ever the not seen mos had - ,
one bite at present , but some of our Conway companions are frightful to behold The , Misses some of T them . and are just their as sister if they Mrs had . A had the and small her pox little badly . irl are g
with us . We grew to be great friends on the voyage , , and we are determined loyment to share . We a cottage have found on our a house landing throug until h our we landlad all succeed Mrs in . M findin g
who emp is kindness itself to us , and we are going there to-morrow y , evening , . We have no furniture , of course , and mean to make our boxes do until we are more settled . Miss H who seems inclined to be a great friend to
ushas promised to send us some , mattresses and chairs and any other article , of furniture they can spare ; both she and her mother , and Mr . and
Mrs . G . II are very kind to us indeed . I do not know of any one who have has come . I don out ' t here doub , th t but at has we met shall with do well the . sympath We have y and several encouragement situations we in
prospect already , and Mr . G H has almost promised to take Ted , and irits if so and , it seems is the much boy ' s stronger own fault alread if he y . does not do well , he is in capital
sp , on . Dec inquiry . Ih . , — that I was the interrupted mail does not by leave some visitors till the 19 th other , I purposel day , and y d , eferre finding d
118 Letters From Brisbane.
118 _LETTERS FROM BRISBANE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/46/
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