Genre:

Serial—Introduction; Extract, Diary

Publications extracted:

Walter Lawry

Subjects:

Exploration, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Acclimatization, Ethnography, Religion, War, Disease, Race

    The introduction relates of the mission station: 'A large piece of ground has been fenced in, and a garden brought under cultivation; fruit-trees and vegetables from New South Wales have been planted; and cattle, poultry, &c., have been introduced' (555–56). The extract from Walter Lawry's journal records: 'A cough prevails pretty generally among the natives, which they attribute to our coming among them; and it has recently been proposed, as a remedy for the complaint, to murder us and share out our property' (557).