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George Dunderdale. The Book of the Bush
The Book of the Bush
Table of Contents
PURGING OUT THE OLD LEAVEN
FIRST SETTLERS
WRECK OF THE CONVICT SHIP "NEVA," ON KING'S ISLAND
DISCOVERY OF THE RIVER HOPKINS
WHALING
OUT WEST IN 1849
AMONG THE DIGGERS IN 1853
A BUSH HERMIT
THE TWO SHEPHERDS
A VALIANT POLICE-SERGEANT
WHITE SLAVES
THE GOVERNMENT STROKE
ON THE NINETY-MILE
GIPPSLAND PIONEERS
THE ISLE OF BLASTED HOPES
GLENGARRY IN GIPPSLAND
WANTED, A CATTLE MARKET
TWO SPECIAL SURVEYS
HOW GOVERNMENT CAME TO GIPPSLAND
GIPPSLAND UNDER THE LAW
UNTIL THE GOLDEN DAWN
A NEW RUSH
GIPPSLAND AFTER THIRTY YEARS
GOVERNMENT OFFICERS IN THE BUSH
SEAL ISLANDS AND SEALERS
A HAPPY CONVICT
THE END
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George Dunderdale
Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned
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She sailed from Cork on January 8th, 1835, B. H. Peck, master; Dr. Stevenson, R.N., surgeon. She had on board 150 female prisoners and thirty-three of their children, nine free women and their twenty-two children, and a crew of twenty-six. Several ships had been wrecked on King's Island, and when a vessel approached it the mate of the watch warned his men to keep a bright look out. He said, "King's Island is inhabited by anthropophagi, the bloodiest man eaters ever known; and, if you don't want to go to pot, you had better keep your eyes skinned." So the look-out man did not go to sleep.
Nevertheless, the 'Neva' went ashore on the Harbinger reef, on May 13th unshipped her rudder and parted into four pieces. Only nine men and thirteen women reached the island; they were nearly naked and had nothing to eat, and they wandered along the beach during the night, searching amongst the wreckage. At last they found a puncheon of rum, upended it, stove in the head, and drank. The thirteen women then lay down on the sand close together, and slept. The night was very cold, and Robinson, an apprentice, covered the women as well as he could with some pieces of sail and blankets soaked with salt water. The men walked about the beach all night to keep themselves warm, being afraid to go inland for fear of the cannibal blackfellows. In the morning they went to rouse the women, and found that seven of the thirteen were dead.
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