 | Archibald Francis Steuart - 1901 - 174 דפים
...all haste. "The time now lost in much extra labour, and the arrival of many people from England, made me anxious to find some place to locate the land purchasers...eligible than the neighbourhood of Holdfast Bay." He had considered but only to condemn on account of their dangerous entrances, Port Lincoln and Encounter... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - 1904 - 1334 דפים
...neighbourhood of Holdfast Bay. I therefore steered at once for it, and at ten am came to an anchor." As for Encounter Bay I resolved on leaving that to a future period for the following reason : — As much as Encounter Bay and Lake Alexandrina had been talked of in England, I never could fancy... | |
 | Henry Thomas Burgess - 1907 - 654 דפים
...December 17. 1836:—"The time now lost in extra labour and the arrival of many people from England made me anxious to find some place to locate the land purchasers...leaving that to a future period, for the following reasons: I never could fancy for one moment that any navigable entrance from the sea into the lake... | |
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England makes me anxious to find some place to locate the land purchasers and others, and from every answer from the sealers and from the view I have had of the western coast (of the Gulf) I felt convinced I should never find anything more eligible than... 