5823 John Watts Typescript

Résumé du livre

An account of farming and pastoral life, and the difficulties associated with it, as experienced by the early pioneers of South-East Queensland. John Watts reminiscences on his life in England and Australia, and about his experiences on board the "Guiana", and the early settlement of Port Adelaide. He details his experience of surviving harsh weather on the "Guiana" and the loss at sea of the ship's chef. Watts writes about the relations between the settlers and indigenous people, sheep and cattle farming and droving around Ipswich and the Condamine Station. He mentions people such as Captain Collins and his son Cardin Collins, Mr Cox, Captain Walker, and the murders of both white settlers by indigenous tribes such as the Fraser family, and the murders of indigenous people by settlers.