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An Antipodean Eye: April 2012
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Monday, 30 April 2012. In the months before Mr Brown's murder. RIVOLI BAY. - DISCOVERY OF HARBOR. ATTACK BY THE BLACKS. BY the Governor Gawler, Captain Underwood,. Information of a highly interesting nature has. Been received in reference to Rivoli Bay, which. Has now, for the first time, been thoroughly ex. Rivoli Harbour, as it may now be called, in. The form very nearly of the spread horns of a. Bullock, or an extended half moon, seven miles. From tip to tip of the horns. Directly in front. Was forced...
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An Antipodean Eye: Swimming in the Whale's Head
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Thursday, 24 May 2012. Swimming in the Whale's Head. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, as Told by Himself. By Louis De Rougemont. The result was that when the tide turned, both the mother and her calf. Were left stranded high and dry on the beach, to the unbounded delight. And amazement of the natives, who swarmed round the leviathans, and set. Up such a terrific uproar, that I verily believe they frightened the. Mother to death. In her dying struggle she lashed the water into a. But still the whale ...
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An Antipodean Eye: Let them be...
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Sunday, 5 January 2014. Extract from Collett Barker's King George Sound Journal. We were drifting for King George Whiting half a kilometre off the beach at Hamelin Bay when I first saw a Great White. Hamelin is just around Cape Leeuwin from Augusta. During the late 1800's it was a timber port, one terminus of an 100-km rail network which ran out straight out onto a deep water jetty. The other ended in Flinders Bay and. Is that weed moving? Must be a raa.". Finally snapped to and whispered,. We sat there ...
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An Antipodean Eye: May 2011
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011. The place that dreamed the emu into being. They say there are no emus there now. But he is still there. If you know where to look. Wednesday, 4 May 2011. Boats at Alert Bay. Tuesday, 3 May 2011. A place to rest one's head. He carried Ulysses to the other side of the world and back again, unread. She passes nearby. Trailing a crooked finger through the canopy, and with gossiping whisper she entices them onwards, carousing away down the valley, to the old people Tseax buried with ...
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An Antipodean Eye: March 2011
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Monday, 28 March 2011. Albany Quarter Sessions Tuesday, June 15th 1880. This court report was published in The West Australian on Friday the 25th 1880. I transcribed it from a digitised edition of the paper held on the National Library's Trove website. Http:/ trove.nla.gov.au/. The report is linked below and I have endeavoured to leave the article as written, apart from the introduction of paragraph breaks for clarity and the bolding of the names of the witnesses and prisoner. TUESDAY, JUNE 15TH 1880.
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An Antipodean Eye: June 2012
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Monday, 4 June 2012. Abrolhos keep your eyes open. If you are having trouble working out the picture, it's a screen grab off google earth. The white area is a southerly swell breaking on shallow coral reef. The pale blue area slightly off centre is a sand hole in the reef in about 5m of water. The sand hole first started to form 382 years ago today ,. When on her maiden voyage the VOC ship, the Batavia. Some 83 years later in 1712, they found little to inspire hope and struck out for Batavia. That blue h...
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An Antipodean Eye: May 2012
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Friday, 25 May 2012. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, As Told by Himself. I had often puzzled my brain for some method whereby I could convey to these savages some idea of the magnitude of the British Empire. I always had the British Empire in my mind, not only because my sympathies inclined that way, but also because I knew that the first friends to receive me on my return to civilisation must necessarily be British. Over. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, As Told By Himself. Thursday, 24 May 2...
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An Antipodean Eye: abrolhos ~ keep your eyes open
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Monday, 4 June 2012. Abrolhos keep your eyes open. If you are having trouble working out the picture, it's a screen grab off google earth. The white area is a southerly swell breaking on shallow coral reef. The pale blue area slightly off centre is a sand hole in the reef in about 5m of water. The sand hole first started to form 382 years ago today ,. When on her maiden voyage the VOC ship, the Batavia. Some 83 years later in 1712, they found little to inspire hope and struck out for Batavia. That blue h...
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An Antipodean Eye: My Great Portrait
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Friday, 25 May 2012. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, As Told by Himself. I had often puzzled my brain for some method whereby I could convey to these savages some idea of the magnitude of the British Empire. I always had the British Empire in my mind, not only because my sympathies inclined that way, but also because I knew that the first friends to receive me on my return to civilisation must necessarily be British. Over. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont, As Told By Himself. Subscribe to: Post...
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An Antipodean Eye: Another Petrified Native
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012. CHARLEY (a native, from Rivoli Bay,. Whose real name is unknown) was accused. Of stealing a quantity of sheep from the. South Australian Company's station at that. The prisoner had a wild and scared ap. Pearance. The adventures of the last few. Days must have been strange to him indeed. The fire-arms of the white men —the chain. With which he was bound—the sea voyage—. The buildings at the court and city—and now. The justice-room, on every object of which. Witness, who was accompanie...
