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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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tation tono worse offences than sympathizing with a rebellion, snaring a hare, orcatching a fish out of somebodys preserved pond. I knew a man whowas transported for seven years for nothing else than twisting the neckof a partridge, and his case was very far from being a solitary one. Inthe eye of the British law he was a criminal, a convict; but in the eyeof common-sense and humanity his respectability was not greatly tar-nished. The Irish rebellion of 1798 caused great numbers of Irishmento be transported ; they were treated as criminals, and all sorts of indig-nities were heaped upon them, but their only crime was that of seekingto free their country. Frank asked how the convicts were treated on the voyage fromEngland to Australia and after they arrived there. According to all accounts, was the reply, they were very cruellyused. On the transport-ships they were closely herded together, poorlyfed, and severely flogged for the least infraction of the rules. Many A PUBLIC EDIFICE. 305
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THE TOWN HALL, SYDNEY. 20 306 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTEALASIA. died on the voyage in consequence of the inhuman treatment theyreceived; in some cases the deaths were a fourth of the entire number.On their arrival in Austraha they were put at work in Governmentestabhshments, or on public roads and wharves, or were hired out toagricultural and other colonists. You must remember that those werethe days of brute force, and no officer in charge of convicts ever thoughtof such a thing as moral suasion and kindness, however much combinedwith firmness. Flogging was of daily and almost hourly occurrence,and administered for trivial oifences ; a historian of the colony says thatany man who failed to go to church on Sundays received twenty lasheson his bare back. Prisoners were put in irons often at the mere capriceof their keepers, their food was scanty, their clothing often insufficientfor the weather, and if a man ventured to run away he was pursued byblood - hounds and bull - dogs and brou

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