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Edward Palmer. Early Days in North Queensland
Early Days in North Queensland
Table of Contents
PREFACE
NOTE BY MR. G. PHILLIPS, C.E
CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. - THE NAVIGATORS
CHAPTER III. - INLAND EXPLORATION
CHAPTER IV. - EXPLORERS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND
CHAPTER V. - PIONEERING WORK IN QUEENSLAND
CHAPTER VI. - THE SPREAD OF PASTORAL OCCUPATION
CHAPTER VII. - THE RISE OF THE NORTHERN TOWNS
CHAPTER VIII. - THE MINERAL WEALTH
CHAPTER IX. - INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY DAYS
CHAPTER X. - THE MEN OF THE NORTH
CHAPTER XI. - ABORIGINALS OF NORTH QUEENSLAND
CHAPTER XII. - PHYSICAL FEATURES
CHAPTER XIII. - SOME LITERARY REMAINS
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Edward Palmer
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The name "squatter" was given in the early days to the pastoral tenants of the Crown, who rented pasture lands in their natural state. The first pastoral occupation took place about 1840, and this may be said to have commenced the life history of the movement that made Queensland known to the world. Large areas were occupied on the banks of rivers and creeks where the splendid and nutritive indigenous grasses required no further cultivation. All that the squatters did was to turn their stock loose on them and exercise some care to prevent them from straying, or being killed and scattered by the blacks.
No country was ever endowed by Nature with a more permanent, healthy, and beneficial pasturage than Australia, though heavy stocking and hot dry seasons have somewhat diminished the value of this natural wealth in some of the earlier settled districts. The chief source of employment in the Colony of Queensland, and the leading export, is still derived from the stock depastured on the native grasses that were found when the State was first explored.
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