 | 1852 - 102 sivua
...and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished dwellings." The writer proceeds to speak of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children perishing by hundreds on a desert waste from want of food and shelter, and even of water, and surrounded by hordes of angry savages.... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 444 sivua
...this state. The ghastly spectacle of the town-site of Clarence — its sole edifices crowded, buried, and neglected tombs — its only inhabitants corpses,...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 456 sivua
...wrecks—the hills and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished buildings—bear witness to these consequences, and speak of brave...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of... | |
 | Marcus Clarke - 1877 - 336 sivua
...Colonies"]: — "The ghastly spectacle of the town site of Clarence — its sole edifices crowded, buried and neglected tombs — its only inhabitants corpses,...surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. It were impossible to estimate the vast amount of property of every sort buried for safety in the sands of... | |
 | Henry Major - 1878 - 120 sivua
...— its only inhabitants corpses, the victims of disease, starvation and despair — the sea beach strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the...water, and surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages. Can we wonder, then, that thousands rushed from such a scene, with the relics of their capital, to... | |
 | James Allen - 1882 - 352 sivua
...tombs ; its only inhabitants, corpses, the victims of disease, starvation, and despair ; the sea beach strewed with wrecks ; the hills and borders of the...studded with deserted and half-finished buildings, bearing witness to the consequences" of this rash attempt at colonisation — to the folly, to the... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - 1895 - 310 sivua
...— its only inhabitants corpses, the victims of disease, starvation and despair — the sea beach strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the...these consequences, and speak of brave men, delicate women, and helpless children perishing by hundreds, on a desert coast, from want of food, of shelter,... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - 1898 - 490 sivua
...studded with deserted and half-finished buildings — bears witness to these consequences, and speaks of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children...and surrounded by armed hordes of angry savages." ' Nor was this the blackest of the picture, according to independent accounts. Some, who should have... | |
 | Graeme Henderson - 2007 - 364 sivua
...beach strewn with wrecks — the hills and borders of the rivei studded with deserted and half finished buildings — bear witness to these consequences,...food, of shelter, and even of water, and surrounded b> armed hordes of angry savages. lt were wholly impossible to estimate the vast amount oi property... | |
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... strewed with wrecks — the hills and borders of the rivers studded with deserted and half-finished buildings — bear witness to these consequences, and speak of brave men, delicate females, and helpless children perishing by hundreds on a desert... 