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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER IV
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But catch him soon, sir, or you won't get the chance.

Doctor, do you know anything about New South Wales ?" "Botany Bay," said the Vicar abstractedly, "convict settlement in South Seas.

Jerry Shaw begged the judge to hang him instead of sending him there.

Judge wouldn't do it though; Jerry was too bad for that." "Hamlyn and I are thinking of selling up and going there," said Jim.
"Do you know anything about it, Doctor ?" "What!" said the Doctor; "the mysterious hidden land of the great South Sea.

Tasman's land, Nuyt's land, Leuwin's land, De Witt's land, any fool's land who could sail round it, and never have the sense to land and make use of it--the new country of Australasia.


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