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Excerpt from First Twenty Years of Australia: A History Founded on Official DocumentsThe story of the Early Days in Australia is one full of interest to many more than Australian settlers or the Australian born. It so differs from the tale to be told of present life there, as if centuries had passed in the interval.Dark as the chronicle may be, it is highly instructive and suggestive. We have in that gloomy and often forbidding picture of huma...

Excerpt from Curious Facts of Old Colonial DaysThe advocates of a free press will sympathise with the sorrows of Colonial martyrs, and learn the forces that broke the fetters of newspapers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recons...

Excerpt from Early Struggles of the Australian PressBallads and poems were forerunners of newspapers. Ben Jonson's play, The Staple of News, 1625, has a character crying.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pre...

Excerpt from The Mormons and the Silver MinesWe had no barren moors, no tame-swelling downs, no bare, harsh-outlined Scotch hills, no uniform table-mounts, but rich foliage and glorious forests at first, with rocks of every hue and form, set off by firs and snow, as we clambered higher.Then, to pass through the Palisades - 40 rush thirty miles an hour along that tortuous canyon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...

Excerpt from The Wild White Man and the Blacks of VictoriaThis decision appears the more necessary, because of the course taken by a gentleman who, several years ago, published What he called an Autobiography Of William Buckley, to the authenticity of which there are many grave objections, while, at the same time, the statements respecting the Port Phillip Blacks are very incorrect, as this gentleman was personally unacquainted with them. All ...

Excerpt from Our Nationalities, Vol. 1: Who Are the Irish?Is the question one of Birth, or Blood If birth, the son of Irish parents, when he chanced to be born while his mother was visiting England, never gained the coveted rights, while the equally fortuitous birth of another in Erin, though of English parentage, procured for him the privileges.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find ...

Excerpt from William Buckley, the Wild White Man and His Port Phillip Black FriendsThe object of the present work is rather to present the Blacks as they were than as they are. For this purpose, documents of an ancient colonial date have been consulted, and the experience of the first settlers has been related.The Author has to express his deep sense of obligation to the kindness and public spirit of Mr. John Helder Wedge of Tasmania.About the...

Excerpt from Daily Life and Origin of the TasmaniansThe prejudices of party strife could not fail to colour stories of the Black War of Van Diamen'a Land. The long continuance of that war, the dispersion of the unhappy dark-skins, the sufferings of women and the destruction of children, all tended to the break up of the Tribes, the blending of old dialects, the confusion of ideas from intercourse with Whites.As the Last of the Tasmanians has b...

Excerpt from Irish Druids and Old Irish ReligionsIreland, whether viewed from an antiquarian or an ethnological point Of View, is one of the most interesting countries in the world. It is not the less an object of attention from the fact, that in its early history there are traces of nearly every kind of pagan belief.It is curious that its literary treasures should have been so long neglected. Of late years, thanks to literary and scientific s...

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