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LETTERS ON AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. 40...
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potatoes see how she unpealed was going and thrown to serve into it . a She huge found tin bowl her just . She about asked to bring her how up she the
had " Sure been we just used put to them serve on up the This potatoes table is , onl and , and when the g we irl , have who of was eaten the blunders Iri enoug sh , rep h , lied we ,
upset be make more , the and civilized table as even to . the Queen Whatever pigs sland . " they is a have little been in y one advance before specimen , of those it , they who are come expected here heartil they will to :
most likely have to be servants , and if they cannot accept the position y be and useful goodhum in it oredl they y will they be had respected better not and come . If they . If can they do have so , not and been
canaccustomed to , be ranked with domestic servants prosperous they can reconcile them- _, selves to it by regarding themselves as social missionaries , that their , laboring di worthil cannot y
princi be In a re p all p lace les y lessened . where I believe they by their are cultivated wanted position , and women so long rememb who as they ering would are actuated not mind b gnity y serving Christian in "
earnest would be a great blessing to the country . Servants who would iir Eng I have land not get from yet m . entioned £ 6 to £ 10 the , here two get Australian from £ 20 bug to bears £ 30 . heat and mosquitoes .
, are We no find hot them winds both and very the endurable sunthoug , the h very first very powerful little , inconvenience does not make . the There air '
often There so oppressive comes is a cool on as the breeze , Eng hottest lish blowing atmosp days , from here The the mosquitoes would sea , be which at look the is lik very same e very refreshing temperature small gnats , and ..
good and their deal bite , and is lik with e the some prick peop of . le a fine they needle fester . and more They are venomous mak very e the sore this skin ; monthi but itch I a , believe are not very painful generally . They are
than any other time of the year . land I must shaped now exactl say a y little like about a horse Brisb -shoe ane , . round The which town eminence stands winds on the in the a beautiful piece centre of *
Brisbane river . The Governor ' s house stands on an filled the of the princi as widest those pal part one in , the and Eng shops commands lish have country a large fine town view j ) late . . - On g T lass here the fronts are outskirts several , and of are streets the as town well ; in
bo the with houses one are another irregularl any behind y scattered group about s of , bananas and appear and to peaches be play ; ing the at peep space - between The roads being are not covered very good with yet grass , but dotted will very with likel native y be shrubs improved and before trees .
the long ladies . Brisbane , many is of a whom very dressy were p ori lace ginall ; the y servants people have , are p not lenty generall to spend y culti , and - themselves vated enoug with h to making interest expensive themselves and in elegant higher toilettes pursuits . , They so they get content French
can and hardl English believe fashions yourself about two in a month new country s old . , Walking but on going up Queen into the Street houses , you , y walls
the si kitchens of a new with settlement mud . floors The , and houses bedrooms are not with so unpapered letelfurnished , show as in gns landof the goods and chattels considered comp necessary y there being
Eng dispensed , many with here . Earthenware and ironmongery are very dear . The people live in a rough way , and do not keep pace with about their outward in handsomer
_ajjpearance in social refinement . Our butcher ' s wife rides a . home orderl decent equipage y , charwoman There the than police are the a are Governor in e Eng vi at gilant land himself and churches would efficient possesses scorn and , . and chapels , The and the town uses peop voluntari is le language very as l moral supported clean which as and at a
and well . attended . gr The houses many are most of them built of wood y with only beautiful one floor ; lace a few and of them the Observatory are of brick and which stone stands . The on Botanical a hillis open Garden to is the a
p , , , so public must , and conclude commands and remain a fine prospect with love , I have Yours now filled sincerel my allotted space . BrisbaneJa nuary 12 _^ 1862 . , y , It . S .
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Letters On Australia And New Zealand. 40...
LETTERS ON AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND . 409
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/49/
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