006 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(Image-006.jpg) Transcription - Cap II (5) (ii) verso to the enjoyment of all the little luxuries and comforts of life and be contented with salt beef and damper occasionally changed for a slice of kangaroo or a river cod, both [dishes] by the by require not even the sauce of hunger to make them palatable. A short period will accustom him to the mode of life in the bush - wherever he goes he will find settlers with numerous flocks and herds and large establishments living in log huts which are pervious to every blast with no other covering than a few sheets of bark to shelter him from the rain. His household furniture consisting of a stretcher mattress and blanket an iron pot frying pan and a few pannikins - his occupations are to multifarious that if he attends strictly to the duties his situation imposes, there can be but little time for him to reflect on its discomforts. It is true that the change at first appears astounding to a person who has recently quitted the comforts and luxuries of civilised life - but in the calm of a country life and the active and pleasing occupations of a farm he soon forgets that he ever had other wants than the common necessaries of life - health attends his days and peace his slumbers, and amidst his farming occupations he can occasionally find time for the sports of the field - [Coursing] the kangaroo or Emu shooting and fishing. Many old settlers have now erected very good dwellings, but those who are prudent carefully avoid the outlay of any capital that will not make an immediate return of profit and consequently the major part with the exception of those who have families are not better accommodated than mentioned above. Let not emigrants therefore come out in the expectation of finding a paradise where their daily wants will be supplied by [dame] nature - For the Old SubjectNew South Wales historyNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2666318032/

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