tailieunhanh - THE NAVAL PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA

This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia; it merely gathers into one volume that which has hitherto been dispersed through many. Our story ends where Australian history, as it is generally written, begins; but the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made that beginning possible. Four sea-captains in succession had charge of the penal settlement of New South Wales, and these four men, in laying the foundation of Australia, surmounted greater difficulties than have ever been encountered elsewhere in the history of British colonization. Under them, and by their personal exertions, it. | THE NAVAL PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA BY LOUIS BECKE AND WALTER JEFFERY AUTHORS OF A FIRST FLEET FAMILY THE MUTINEER ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET 1899 PREFACE This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia it merely gathers into one volume that which has hitherto been dispersed through many. Our story ends where Australian history as it is generally written begins but the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made that beginning possible. Four sea-captains in succession had charge of the penal settlement of New South Wales and these four men in laying the foundation of Australia surmounted greater difficulties than have ever been encountered elsewhere in the history of British colonization. Under them and by their personal exertions it was made possible to live upon the land it was made easy to sail upon the Austral seas. After them came military and civil governors and constitutional government finding all things ready to build a Greater Britain. Histories there are in plenty of so many hundred pages devoted to describing the blessings of constitutional government of the stoppage of transportation of the discovery of gold and all the other milestones on the road to nationhood butthere is given in them no room to describe the work of the sailors a chapter or two is the most historians afford the naval pioneers. The printing by the New South Wales Government of the Historical Records of New South Wales has given bookmakers access to much valuable material dispatches chiefly hitherto unavailable and to the volumes of these Records to the contemporary historians of The First Fleet of Captain Phillip to the many South Sea voyages and other works acknowledged in the text these writers are indebted. Their endeavour has been to collect together the scattered material that was worth collecting relating to what might be called the naval period of Australia. This involved some years study and the reading of scores of books and

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