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EARLY AUSTRALIANS

TRUE PATRIOTS ALL, or News from Early Australia, as told in a Collection of Broadsides, garnered and decorated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton; Angus and Robertson. Australian price, 42/-. JE is tude or stupid, or both, who sneers at Australians as "descendants of convicts,’ but the transportation era in Australian history cannot be ignored. Indeed, the editor of this very remarkable record of that era accuses

historians of, until a few years ago, "deliberately forgetting, in deference to the pioneers’ descendants," the effect of "the greed or cruelty of the early racketeers." Moreover, the quotation best known to the world in the whole of Australian literature, from. which the title af this book is taken, dates from convict days: "True patriots all; for be it understood, we left our country for our country’s good." _ The editor has collected English and Australian broadsides, or broadsheets, chapbooks, pamphlets, and proclamations, from the City of London petition to the King, in 1786, which was followed by the first transportations to Botany Bay, up to the Eureka Stockade of 1854. These broadsides or broadsheets reported crimes and other happenings "in heavily sentimental or sensational terms, Sometimes in doggerel verse. In the nature of things, very few have survived. A great deal of research has gone to this compilation, and the editor’s thoroughness is attested by 17 pages of notes about origins. As much as possible has been produced in facsimile, and there are many woodcuts which freely illustrate the barbarities of the time. Here are contemporary records of crime and repentance, the unspeakable conditions in convict ships, trials and executions, mutinies, shipwrecks, bushranging, and official crises. Governor Bligh is arrested by the "rum-running" officers, and someone declares in a poster that there should be a general thanksgiving for the recall of .Governor Arthur. Several of the documents bring in New Zealand, such as the sufferings of marooned sailors, the drama of the convict ship Wellington at the Bay of Islands, and Governor Darling’s ‘historic proclamation forbidding traffic in Maori heads. True Patriots All is an originally conceived and brilliantly executed illumination of history, and a collector's | --

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 12

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EARLY AUSTRALIANS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 12

EARLY AUSTRALIANS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 12

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