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Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia

CHAPTER VI
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Blessed with a climate of unparalleled serenity, and of unusual freedom from disease, the settler has little external cause of anxiety, little apprehension of sickness among his family or domestics, and little else to do than to attend to his own immediate interests.

I should wish to illustrate the observations by two or three instances of their practical bearing and tendency.
CASES OF EMIGRANTS; CAUSES OF SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
It was on my return from my second expedition, that I visited Lieut.

****** who resides in the southern parts of the colony.

The day after my arrival, he took me round his property, and explained the various improvements he had made, considering the small means with which he had commenced.

At this part of our conversation, we came within view of his house, a substantial weather-board cottage.


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